Underland : a deep time journey by Robert MacFarlane
It’s hard to summarize this book. The publisher’s blurb mentions a journey, and glaciers, and burial chambers, and the planet’s past and future. Which is all true, and covers a hell...
It’s hard to summarize this book. The publisher’s blurb mentions a journey, and glaciers, and burial chambers, and the planet’s past and future. Which is all true, and covers a hell...
This was one of a number of books mentioned at my last book club meeting, and as I was heading to the hairdressers I realised I didn’t have a book with...
A novella, Thirteen ways of looking and short stories, What time is it now, where you are?, Sh’hkol, Treaty. Trigger warning – assault & rape are referenced. The first story, the...
The Sixth World ; book 1 After the world floods Dinétah, formerly the Navajo reservation, is utterly changed. The old gods and magics have returned, and with them monsters and so...
: tree planting and woodland ownership, Irish edition As part of Biodiversity week there was a talk on trees on nearby organised by Crann, which is a voluntary group devoted to...
This was my book club’s choice for May. I had heard about it before that and had meant to read it but hadn’t gotten around to it before now. Then again,...
Some Irish people might remember Eddie Lenihan’s Ten minute tales from children’s tv back in the eighties. If not you should see if you can find some of his videos on...
The Illiad is one of those books pretty much everyone has heard of, and most have an idea of the storyline, but not as many have actually read it. I did...
This is one of the readings for The Modern and Postmodern course I’m doing. I’m not sure that Mr. Rousseau understands that sick and injured animals end up dead, that’s why...
Available online pdf – Translation into English by Daniel Fidel Ferrer Enlightenment, according to Kant, is having the courage to make your own decisions. Many people remain uneducated and childish because...
translated by Ian Johnston – available online So I decided to start an online course, on the spur of the moment, I may drop it. We’ll see. It is titled The...
In the future countries and states have been replaced by corporations. Capitalism has reached its full potential, or its full horror. The poor and desperate try to earn residency and eventually...