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Protected: Reading Through This Summer’s Flux
Category: Review
Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
It must certainly be an eternity since I read a novel from the 19th century. My aged father had ordered a copy of Middlemarch by George Eliot from Amazon more than a year ago and I thought I must read it. I have already shared some of my observations about the book on social media,… Continue reading Trying to Find Meaning in Marriage, Money and Muddlemarch
Protected: Reading for An Uneventful Summer
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Protected: Staying Human in the World of AI
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Protected: Spring-Reading for Clarity
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Protected: Reading with Davos Man
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Protected: Reading to Begin the New Year With
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A Young Girl’s Dictionary
Anyone who has read Simon Winchester’s book, The Surgeon of Crowthorne, will wonder how the story of the compiling of the Oxford English Dictionary can ever be fictionalized. It is a fascinating account of an unlikely volunteer and his helping James Murray, the editor of the first OED, with words, their meanings and usage. Anyhow,… Continue reading A Young Girl’s Dictionary
Protected: Reading to Wind Down 2022
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Neither Orphans, Nor Detectives
Finished reading the second of the three books my aged father gifted me for my birthday this August, and as someone who has read Kazuo Ishiguro, I have to say it is completely out of character with anything he has written before. I could tell from the book’s title itself, When We Were Orphans that… Continue reading Neither Orphans, Nor Detectives
Peripatetic Perch 