The fast and the furious dir. by Rob Cohen
It’s pretty impossible for me to be objective about The fast and the furious. I mean, I’ve been watching these films for 18 years. And sure, they’re nonsensical action films all...
19 May 2019
Humorous Irish tales for children by Eddie Lenihan
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...
19 May 2019
The war that killed Achilles by Caroline Alexander
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...
16 May 2019
A Discourse Upon the Origin and the Foundation Of The Inequality Among Mankind by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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...
8 May 2019
An Answer to the Question: What Is Enlightenment? by Immanuel Kant
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...
28 April 2019
Discourse on the Arts and Sciences by Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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...
28 April 2019
The Light brigade by Kameron Hurley
In the future countries and states have been replaced by corporations.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...
27 April 2019
Amateur: a true story about what makes a man
Thomas Page McBee is in training for a fight, a white collar charity boxing match in Madison Square Garden. If is goes ahead he will be the first trans man to...
20 April 2019
The ear by Piret Raud
First published in Estonian as Kõrv, 2019 This is such an odd little book. It tells the tale of an ear who wakes one day to find that their head is...
10 April 2019
Last ones left alive by Sarah Davis-Goff
Orpen is travelling alone across Ireland. She’s left the only home she ever knew and is looking for something. She’s left safety and security to risk her life out in the...
10 April 2019
Nought forever by Malorie Blackman
A long time ago I read the first three books in the Noughts and Crosses series by Blackman, and really, really enjoyed them. But for some reason I never got to...
2 April 2019
Normal people by Sally Rooney
What is a normal person? Is anyone normal? and if not, does that not mean that everyone is? I guess normality is often seen of as going along with what society...
31 March 2019