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And for those who don't know who Polkinghorne is, he's had a dual career as a respected academic physicist (including posts at Cambridge), and as a CofE clergyman, holding, amongst other posts, that of Canon Theologian at Liverpool.
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I've just finished The Hadassah Covenant by Tommy Tenney  I really cannot decide whether it is Cyprynus carpio or a member of the thrush genus. In summary, it is a cross between Dan Brown's Da Vinci Code and Kate Mosse's Labyrinth only written with the skill of a slap in the face. The only good thing I can say about it is that I didn't have to waste much of my time in reading it. Please do take my word for it, and make sure you do not waste any of yours. Tommo |
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Borrowed from the library yeterday: Prokofiev - Diaries, vol.1 (1907 - 1914) by edited by Anthony Philips.
Most interesting with some rather amusing comments by P. about his contemporaries and other composers (especially the sarcastic ones!). It's not something I'll read in it's entirity but i'll dip in and out of.
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Most interesting with some rather amusing comments by P. about his contemporaries and other composers (especially the sarcastic ones!).
I imagine if anyone would be qualified to comment on sarcastic composers, P, the (IMHO) pre-eminent sarcastic composer of his generation, would be.  Got through most of t-zero over the course of two bus-trips today. Finally got to a story that utterly delighted me, 'The Chase'. Beautifully, side-splittingly Calvinoesque, as was its the preceding story (though, personally, to a less-immediate extent), 't zero'. All good stuff.  (Except, maybe, for the translation). |
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Not by any means as high brow as some of these later recommendations , but I have been enjoying Margaret Drabble 'The Sea Lady'. Worth a look I think, her style is relaxing but not 'chewing gum' !!
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I'm still ploughing through "God the Evidence" by Patrick Glynn. He's just as dogmatic as Dawkins but in the opposite direction. However I'd prefer to believe Glynn so I'm persevering.
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As part of a project I'm doing in my spare time (currently all my time, owing to not working right now), I've been reading lots of reports on various things...had a bit of a WTF moment there, while getting data from National Vital Statistics Reports, Vol. 55, No. 1, September 29, 2006.
DID YOU KNOW, that in 2006 (in America), there were three nineteen year-old girls who were registered their EIGHT childbirth?!
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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Story about 13 y old boy growing up and facing all the problems of that age - thought would be bored stiff but very entertaining as well as very perceptive and highly recommended
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 I liked this. Leon's Commissario Brunetti books are a great escape, and a great holiday read, but this one is actually one of the better ones. I've also read this  I was left a little disappointed. I think I had been hoping for answers as to why we think the way we do, rather than extreme examples of how our brains work. But interesting nevertheless. Tommo |
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I was left a little disappointed. I think I had been hoping for answers as to why we think the way we do, rather than extreme examples of how our brains work. But interesting nevertheless. Tommo, I completely agree. Fascinating though this was in detail, it left me feeling that Sacks had essentially been saying 'look how weird these psycho-acoustic phenomena are!' rather than trying to offer any kind of reasoned explanation for them. Ultimately a rather lazy coffee table book, I think - sadly, because he's capable of a lot better. |
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Black Swan Green by David Mitchell
Story about 13 y old boy growing up and facing all the problems of that age - thought would be bored stiff but very entertaining as well as very perceptive and highly recommended
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Perhaps not so academically stimulating as some other posts on this thread - I have been reading several of Torey Hayden's books recently.
They are her reminiscences of her experiences as a child psychologist dealing especially with very disturbed children usually with elective mutism.
They are written in a wonderfully easy but addictive style and I thoroughly recommend them to anyone even slightly interested in this sort of work with children. Her patience puts me to shame and I wonder at her imaginative spontaneous approach to these troubled youngsters.
Titles include 'One Child' , 'Beautiful Child', 'Ghost Girl'and 'Silent Boy'
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