Archive for July, 2009
Book 17 Alexander Mc Call Smith The No 1 Detective Agency
This story is setting in an Africa that is developing and evolving.
This is what my Mum calls ‘FEEL GOOD GENRE ‘ that is Fiction that has a Feel Good Factor in the truest most genuine sense of the word which won’t leave a bitter or dark aftertaste in your mouth or make you feel as [...]
Book 16 Librivox Machievelli The Prince
This Book, Book 16 took about 3-4 days to ‘read’. Even using Audiobooks is challenging hence my decision to archive all Audiobook Material which is also useful for bumping up total so I head towards the 24 Books mark which is 2 books a month; a pathetic total.
What have I learn’t from Machievelli? he uses [...]
Book 15 Librivox Audiobook FREE Bertrand Russell The Problems of Philosophy
Book 15 is done. I have to work out a Review. This makes Nussbaum Book 16,17,18 depending on what books I read first. 24 Books read means TWO books a month which is very bad. I am using Audiobooks without shame as they are Philosophy books and Philosophy books have a more difficult content. Exposure [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book 14 read Book 15 reading Nussbaum I read at the moment one Philosophy book for about four novels/light reading
I have just recently finished reading Jade Goody ‘Forever in my heart’ Jade Goody’s Official Cancer Diaries.
This is Book 14 meaning Nussbaum is Book 15 so quite a bit of reading this year! Currently I have a book a month at the current numerical rate which is not good enough considering the time I have [...]
Book 13 The Secret Life of Bees Sue Monk Kidd
A totally delightful book about a a runaway daughter who flees unloving father to Tibouron a community where unbeknown to her; her late mother, accidently shot by her, also fled to the same refuge where bees are kept.
This book is above love about the persecuted black community in small town America who have refuge in [...]
Book 12 LIBRIVOX AUDIOBOOK Friedrich Nietzsche ‘Beyond Good and Evil’
This is my first ever test of listening to a Philosopher’s Work in Audiobook (MP3) Format.
Over a week or two I have taken a Section at a time working my way through about 10 hours of’ Reading’.
During this time I was not able to take in my Latest attempt at Tome Reading; the full 766 [...]
Book 11 Doris Lessing ‘The Golden Notebook’ read in a novelistic interlude between heavyweight Philosophy Tomes NEW
This is Book 11 this Year making Martha Nussbaum ‘Upheaval of Emotions The Intelligence of the Emotions’ is Book 12 a work in progress.
I noticed this book in Tesco and decided to buy it as the Storyline looked interesting and pertinent and she also won the Nobel Prize for Literature making this the first Nobel [...]
Book 10: Naomi Klein ‘The Shock Doctrine’ or watch a new phenomenon at work!
This is a shocking account of Shock Therapy which tells how Milton Friedman. Chicago School Economists one size fits all Policies . Resulted in gross inequalities and poverty for many Nations round the World.
She shows us how . Shock Therapy Regimes are imposed to circumvent grassroots resistance which is an eye [...]
Book 9: Charles Taylor ‘Sources of the Self: the making of Modern Identity’ a Six Month read into my first adventures into ’selves’
This book is the start of me formally attempting to reply to the Research Draft Proposal Draft with something pertaining to a sensible answer without of course having the elementary qualifications those in Academia are blessed to have Charles Taylor is part of two Philosophers I am reading that attempt to go beyond [...]
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