After reading chapter 3 of "Marie Curie: Honesty In Science", the language seems a little complex for a children's book. Maybe a notebox of defining some of the words would help the young reader a little more. Otherwise, the chapter was insightful

I read almost half of 'Marie Curie and the Discovery of Radium.' There are historical facts in it that makes me understand Marie Curie better. Historical facts can have big influence on people. Biography should contain historical contents to help the reader understand the person better. However, to understand someone completely, we should also concentrate on the individual's inner side.

After the English class on Thursday, I found out that there are biographies for adults and also for children. Children version biographies are tended to be shorter and have much more simpler vocabularies. On the other hand, adult version biographies have more details but harder to comprehend. I think I should borrow children version biographies with "pictures" so that I can get more details from it.

On pg.11 of "Essays in Biography," the author wrote, "for plutarch¡¦s aim was not merely to describe lives but to judge them, to weigh their ethical value and to measure their political effectiveness.¡¨ I think the difference between biography and history is that the biographer will put his/her own views toward people they wrote about, and the history is all about the facts without the author¡¦s opinions inside.

I am astonished to find how captivating Marie Curie: Honesty in Science was. I never expected myself to be able to finish reading the whole book in one sitting. But on another note, what exactly did Marie Curie do with the gram of radium she obtained in the United States? Why did she want it?

After reading Marie Curie's biography, I'm getting little interest on her fantastic work, and also how you describe her. The "Essays in Biography" has little complicated words, but if you get though those words, then I'll bet you would like/want to read his books...and if you want to understand better than get the children version book as Shing Yuen said on she/he comment.

Honestly, biography is not something I would reach out my hand and pick up from the book-shelf. Prof.Rollyson's Marie Curie's biography and his lecture on close reading made the reading more interesting than before. Thinking about a purpose of the words and phrase author use changed the biography from torture of boredom into somewhat exciting detective story. Well, it's an exaggeration but I believe this is the best explanation I can present.

Reading the few biographies on Marie Curie were very interesting though similar. The society where I come from never found it necessary to "press" students to know anything about the inventor of Radiant therefore, coming into this Writing class I knew nothing about Marie. I must say learning about her inventions, her personal life, and her humble character was found rather fascinating.

I too encountered difficulty in finding a library with a selection of biographies to choose from. I finally struck gold after looking around several New-York public libraries. There are several around the city and you can lend up to 30 books at a time free of charge. You can look up the library closest to you by logging into the web site.

The biography about the life of Marie Curie I chose to read was one by Naomi Pasachoff. The opening paragraph captured me immediately and I was left with no other choice but to pick up the book and take it home with me. The author begins the book by giving a romantic description of Marie and Pierre's first blind date. Being the romantic that I am I couldn’t wait to sit down and continue reading. Unfortunately, I regret to say that I didn’t find the rest of the biography as capturing. I will not elaborate in case some of you are still reading it; I wouldn’t want my personal view to ruin it for anyone. But just in case you were considering beginning it, you might want to re think your decision.

Readaing the biographical essay about Plutarch wasn't just interesting and intelectually developing, but I aslo found it very useful for improving my writing skills. It is a very good example of an essay structure to look up to in future.

I read the biography essay on Plutarch. He seemed like a remarkable man in the world of biography, and someone that all biographers would want to be like. He went into the life's of important people and showed the sucesses and faults of the subject, to make him/her a real person instead of this unproclaimed "God". I enjoyed reading this essay and would like to learn even more about him

We're expected to compare a few biographies in our review. But how can I put side by side a children's biography (written in a simpler language , presenting less facts) with an elaborated , full of passions and descriptions of scientific experiments biography by Barbara Goldsmith?

How does a person become biographer? How is this happening? Probably, most of those people who deside to write a biography begin with passional interest tawrds concrete individual. Then, they ask themselfs what is the best way to impersonate this interest? Biograthy? Why not. Consequently, their enthusiasm leads to writing biography of biographer.

After reading Plutarch and Lillian Hellman, I think the beginning of these two essays are different. We describe a person directly or indirectly. Different type of the beginning give me a fresh view of these two essays.