A ghost in the throat by Doireann Ní Ghríofa
It is hard to categorise this book. It is an exploration of a poem. It is a memoir of a poet. It is an exploration of one woman’s life. The DDC...
21 April 2024
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...
27 June 2019
Badgers, beeches and blisters by Julian Evans, Ken Gill
: 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...
1 June 2019
Notes to self by Emilie Pine
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,...
25 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
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
T. H. White : a biography by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Back in 2017 I read and loved H is for hawk by Helen Macdonald. In that book she talks about T. H. White and his book on training a goshawk. I...
18 February 2019
Merry midwinter by Gillian Monks
A better time to read this book would probably be October or November as it is all about winter celebrations. But I’m still glad I read it, even if I’m pretty...
6 January 2019
Confronting the classics by Mary Beard
I feel like I’ve been reading this book since forever, which is pretty much true as I started reading it back in February. But it is a collection of essays/reviews so...
29 September 2018
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