Science, History, and Fiction in Everyday Life
This month I am late for my usual book presentation, and the reason is, as you might imagine, what’s happening on Mars, which is taking up a big part of my work schedule and virtually all my free time. So,…
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This time it was relatively easy to select the three featured books for the blog: they’re the ones I am reading just now, and they’re all worth the time, for different reasons. The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel….
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme, hosted at The Purple Booker. Anyone can play along by doing the following: • Grab your current read• Open to a random page• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page• BE…
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In these days I’m utterly enjoying Mantel’s Wolf Hall, a novel based on the life of Thomas Cromwell, which is one of the best historical novels I’ve read in a long, long time. The point is, I’m generally disappointed; as it…
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