![]() ![]() Can you get them to line up again? Where do the large atoms go? Do you get different outcomes depending on how hard to shake? Again, gently shake the mixture back and forth and watch what happens to the atoms. Use your hands to mix up the balls and distribute the larger ones throughout. Each large candy represents one large atom. Add the larger candies-approximately ¼ the number of small candies.Do any of the rows go all the way from one side of the bowl to the other? What happens at the edges? Are there any gaps or cracks in the patterns you see? Keep shaking until all of the atoms line up in straight lines. Gently shake the bowl from side to side and watch how the “atoms” move.Each small candy represents one small atom. ![]() Pour enough of the small candies into the bowl to cover the bottom with one layer of candy.I don't think I'd read it again but it was entertaining enough. There were a lot of little things that were never really explained, which bothered me (like the fact that every secondary character's last name is Finney). I didn't really know what was true and what was not by the time the last fifty pages came around, but the imagery was engaging and the characters were all strange enough to keep me reading. A lot of important stuff was touched on, like Marilyn's activism in feminism and sexual awakening, and the people of the time were portrayed as god-like visions. Less than twenty years after the events happened, this book seemed to hold a nostalgia that is still rising up on us today. This book was interesting because it seemed to be written at a time when the sixties wasn't yet cemented as an important decade in pop culture and political history. This book is about a girl lost in the sixties, between a father obsessed with a vision of tragic beauty and a mother in love with a president whose death she would hear announced at Woolworth's. Their baby, named Marilyn by the moonstruck Joe, enters a strange world at a strange time, full of countercultures, space adventures, handsome presidents, and Tupperware parties. Her flaky husband Joe Albion, who Kate is pushing into the political career she wishes she could have, is having a religious experience upon meeting Marilyn Monroe, falling head over heels for her. The novel starts in 1952, when an ambitious politician's daughter named Kate Albion goes into sudden labor, spurred on by the anger of a speech by her arch-enemy, Richard Nixon. Their baby, n This was one of the weirdest books I've read in awhile and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. This was one of the weirdest books I've read in awhile and I don't know if that's a good thing or a bad thing. Barbie wasn't even invented until 1959 and then was considered a toy for fashion-loving teens and not little girls.īut, hello! I liked this book very much.more Rated 4 instead of 5 stars because of errors, such as Marilyn combing her Barbie doll's hair in 1957? No, sorry. From Sputnik and bomb shelters to the unrest of the 60s and the moon landing, we follow this family and a host of real and imagined characters on a wild ride through the atomic age. In the late 50s, Marilyn, daughter of Bostonian congressional candidate Joe and his JFK obsessed wife Kate, was christened out of her father's obsession with Marilyn Monroe. Rated 4 instead of 5 star A novel set in the Atomic age, that period between the late 50s and early 70s, rife with cultural references and icons. A novel set in the Atomic age, that period between the late 50s and early 70s, rife with cultural references and icons.
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