2021-02-28 18:42
This is a critique of Communism and how it had gone wrong behind the Iron Curtain.
This essay examines the evolutions in France and Russia and argues that since they both produced tyranny… Read More
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2021-02-28 06:20
Peter Ackroyd demonstrates the unique brilliance of Isaac Newton’s perceptions, which changed the understanding of the world.
Having read this book, I’m startled by how much I… Read More
2021-02-25 03:48
I’ve started reading this short book Days of Reading by Marcel Proust.
Two items to tell you about.
The first is the observation that “The configuration of something is not… Read More
2021-02-20 22:08
I am reading Shambhala : The Sacred Path of the Warrior by Chogyam Trungpa.
In the chapter on Authentic Presence are written the following words.
The way of exercising inscrutability i… Read More
2021-02-20 04:31
The book Pythagoras – His Lives and the Legacy of a Rational Universe by Kitty Ferguson is far more than a biography of Pythagoras and his followers. This book traces the influence tha… Read More
2021-02-16 21:46
Some points that resonated after my reading of this book today:
1 – Casualness has become increasingly popular, because people think in terms of efficiency rather than appreciation… Read More
2021-02-15 21:13
Well-written satire that is still as funny today as it was when it was published.
I believe this is Steinbeck’s only satirical novel and although it does poke fun at French politics… Read More
2021-02-14 21:12
This is a history book as well as a book of poetry.
Firstly, there are 60 pages of introduction. I advise you to read this introduction as it sets the scene for both the history and the p… Read More
2021-02-10 04:44
This is a fine book by the two-time Pulitzer Prize winning naturalist Edward O Wilson.
This book is about the relationship between the humanities and the sciences and their roots in human… Read More
2021-02-07 22:55
I just finished reading this authoritative history of the English Civil Wars in the 1640s
A new history of the civil wars in England in the 1640s and 1650s outlining battles, diseases, re… Read More
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