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One Sentence Summary: In 1920s New York, two forensic scientists started a cat and mouse game with criminals to detect and prove the use of poison for murder.
One Sentence Review: Blum’s book combines murder, mystery, and easy-to-understand chemistry into an easy to read package.
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The “In Real Life” book club I’m a part of meet on Tuesday to talk about The Djinn in the Nightingale’s Eye by A.S. Byatt. The book is a collection a short fairy stories that we generally enjoyed, although we didn’t have a lot to say about it. I’ll have a review of the book [...]
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This week author Michal Pollan was in Madison for a huge series of events because his book In Defense of Food was picked for UW-Madison’s first ever common reading program, Go Big Read. It feels like the whole campus has been buzzing because of his visit.
Or, it just feels like the whole campus because [...]
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One of the things I miss most about my undergrad English classes is having people to sit down and talk about a book with. Blogging is great, but sometimes I just miss talking with a group of people. I might be in luck, however, because this year UW is trying a new campus common reading [...]
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I just finished The Book Thief by Markus Zusak and wow, just wow. Such a good book! It’s one of those that I’m a little sad is over because I loved reading it so much. I was absorbed by all of the characters, totally drawn into their stories, wanting the best for them even though [...]
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I finally found a way to upload my first multimedia project online! To view the project, click on the picture at right and a new window will pop up with the audio slideshow. If you’re interested, check out these previous posts about my experience doing multimedia reporting, and my experience putting the project together.
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In last week’s edition of Journalism Friday I wrote about my process of reporting and doing audio editing for my first multimedia story — a project about Art and Maral Shegonee’s Kids in the Rotunda performance at the Overture Center. This week in class we worked on photo editing using Adobe Photoshop, so I’m just [...]
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I finally did some reporting this semester, which I’m excited to tell you about for Journalism Friday, my weekly post on journalism and j-school. My first assignment for Integrated Multimedia Storytelling is an audio and photo project. We need to edit 30-60 seconds of audio, then tie it to 10-15 pictures for a slideshow. Although [...]
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I rarely get books in the mail because I don’t usually do ARCs and don’t often enter in giveaways online. I don’t do ARCs because I like to read what I feel like reading without feeling obligated to get to a book specifically because I agreed to review it. I’m not sure why I don’t [...]
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