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May 20, 2008
As a follow up to yesterday’s post… I currently have in my possession, on loan from the Harvard library, volume 6 part 5 of Science and Civilization of China. This particular volume was published well after the death of Joseph Needham, but nonetheless, is made from his painstaking research on China.
You may wonder why on […]
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May 19, 2008
I am heading over to Booksmith in Coolidge Corner this evening to go see a talk on Simon Winchester’s new book, The Man Who Loved China. I’m pretty excited about this since I’ve read two of his other books and liked them a whole lot, especially The River at the Center of the World. I […]
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March 25, 2008
i finished reading a book last night, the first novel i’ve read in a very long time, and definitely the first something “for fun” that i’ve read in years that wasn’t a comic book and didn’t somehow relate to my field of study.
Boy Toy is a story about high school experiences, surviving abuse, and growing […]
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October 8, 2005
Prof. Walter Willett is an interesting doctor who manages to talk about health, nutrition, and balance in great terms while backing things up with data from some of the longest running nutriotional and epidemiological studies conducted. I learned an awful lot about what to eat and what not to eat… and what precautions are […]
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October 8, 2005
This was one of the few Murakami books that I could nail down in my local library. It seems this man is hot hot hot.
Anyhow… i liked this book, though not so much as Dance Dance Dance. Why? Well… I just never really cared for the main character… rather i developed […]
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October 8, 2005
This is a book about bugs. It’s a great book. Sue Hubbell seems, to me, to be a great speaker of the greatness of critters with an exoskeleton. Seriously, this book, with each chapter devoted to another interesting thing with many legs, will give you at least some appreciation for creepy crawlies.
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July 19, 2005
Neil Gaiman’s American Gods is worth the hype and more than well worth reading. It was wonderful fun and effortless reading, and for the first time in a couple of years, a book I read a dreaded the fact that it would end.
This is one that, even though I’ve already read it (thank heavens […]
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May 28, 2005
I finished reading The Powerbook while I was away in Baltimore. Jeanette Winterson writes excellent books, and I love to see what she does with language, imagery, and especially touch. Her storytelling is indirect and mysterious yet intimate, so I found myself flying through the book waiting to see how it all goes […]
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May 6, 2005
Coraline ~Neil Gaiman
This story is fantastic. I breezed through the book in a couple of hours, and i think it’s a great book for sassy and smart fifth and sixth graders. Heck, even a fourth grader so long as they don’t scare easily. I love Coraline’s attitude and faith in herself, her resourcefulness […]
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May 6, 2005
The Future of Life ~Edward O. Wilson
I learned a lot from the first six chapters of this book. Enlightening, insightful, and interesting bits of information about the diversity found on earth, the places it can be found, and how it benefits humans to have other organisms around. Wilson gives so many examples from […]
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