Category: book review

  All my life I have read, avidly.  The past few years?  Not so much.  I was busy with stuff, lots of stuff that took my time and attention and left me wrung out, not wanting to engage with a book in the way that I used to do.  So I read in little nibbles…

  Normally I would only ‘review’ a book I have actually read, but I listened to part of an interview with the author on You Tube this morning and I think this book is something to watch for. Unfortunately it’s rather expensive, so I won’t be rushing out to buy a copy, nor is my…

In my lifetime I have seen attitudes swing from a focus on the Humanities to Technology. Is this a good thing?  Not always, in my opinion. Perhaps setting aside Humanities as an area of study has led to less humane treatment of others.  A lack of understanding of how human beings are all part of…

In my lifetime I have seen attitudes swing from a focus on the Humanities to Technology. Is this a good thing?  Not always, in my opinion. Perhaps setting aside Humanities as an area of study has led to less humane treatment of others.  A lack of understanding of how human beings are all part of…

In my lifetime I have seen attitudes swing from a focus on the Humanities to Technology. Is this a good thing?  Not always, in my opinion. Perhaps setting aside Humanities as an area of study has led to less humane treatment of others.  A lack of understanding of how human beings are all part of…

This is part of my book hoard – the books I own, therefore do not have a deadline by which they must be read.  As I say, only part of my hoard.   This morning several things happened that seemed to be a ‘thread’.  The first was viewing a video comment from Canadian astronaut Chris Hadfield,…

“Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested; that is, some books are to be read only in parts; others to be read, but not curiously; and some few are to be read wholly, and with diligence and attention.†― Francis Bacon, The Essays The Daily Planet…

To see the entire quote, right click and open in a new tab, then click on the tab I have been slowly, thoughtfully, chewing my way through The Golden Thread by Kassia St. Clair. This morning the paragraph beginning “While it is often assumed…” stopped me cold.  What she is saying is that the people…

For thousands of years, weaving – the complete supply line of raising and harvesting the fibre, spinning and weaving – was skilled labour.  Still is. I just started reading a book that I’m going to promote here and then do a ‘proper’ book review when I get a little further into it – The Golden…