Book of the month: "Voltaire Almighty"
In which I praise Roger Pearson's most readable Voltaire biography.
reading
Through a "River of Ink"
"River of Ink" [http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/river-of-ink-9781408862230/], the
debut novel of Brit Paul M.M. Cooper [https://whatalotofbirds.wordpress.com/],
is a marvel. I'd not heard of the man until he
Wetlands
I finished reading Charlotte Roche’s “Feuchtgebiete”
[http://www.librarything.com/work/4742164] last weekend, a book that has not
only sold a whopping 700,000 copies, but has also attracted attention
[http:
We all tell stories
WeTellStories [http://wetellstories.co.uk/] is just fantastic, and warrants an
entry here (as opposed to my tumblelog [http://intrepidlytrite.com], where stray
links usually end up). I’m now quoting liberally from
I don't read newspapers the right way
A few days ago, as I was standing in one of the numerous trams of Vienna’s
public transport, waiting for it to take me to the main university building, I
noticed someone