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 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 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 8 Clare Boylan ‘The Agony and the Ego’
Clare Boylan’s Book ‘The Agony and Ego’ could be happily read alongside my other Bible’ ‘Becoming a Writer’ by Dorothea Brand. It is basically an edited Compilation that theoretically could be re done in cycle, every now and then by a well known Author who has contacts with the great and the good of the [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Book No 3 ‘The Broken Window’ Jeffrey Deaver
Another book to get me wondering if I am doing the right thing but too much operating online.
Anyone who knows me will tell you that I am in love with my Computer (Desktop) and I am now a committed Laptop fan. (My family wonder if they did the right thing referring me to Laptop Land [...]
There are times only Becker will do Author of The Outsiders Stigma and Deviance Course Third Year Uni
Howard Becker writes a lot of sense to one outside the Academy. I need to do a proper review but this guy is sensible.
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Book 33: Roy Porter Madness a Brief History
Current Count:( 33 )Books out of First Hundred 80 to go. Library access multiples access as does Mummy’s Library.
I am still ploughing through Academic books borrowed a few months back when I had my First Policies and Procedures Review Group Meeting.
A History read. First ever with Foucaults Madness and Civilisation, and Goffman Asylum plus [...]
Book 27 Nickel and Dimed Undercover in low wage USA
Current Count:( 27)Books out of First Hundred 50 approximately in stock
This book is part of the Reading List for Exploring Self in Society MIT OCW. It is a blistering critique of the ACTUAL conditions of the poor in slave wage conditons doing the jobs the more affluent members of Society won’t do or value. [...]
Book No 26:Tom Bailey Eds ‘Writing Short Stories’ 2006 Reading List
Current Count:( 26 )Books 2006 Reading List the Year of the Inception of the 2000 Book Reading Programme
This is a first Class Text book on the art of Writing Short Stories.
This is from an Academic who is at the IOWA Writers Workshop which as you know is in the US. He guides us through [...]
Book 27out of 2000/’hundreds’ THE FIRST HUNDRED TARGET 2006
Current Count:( 28)Books
Books I have re (28) Last one: TOMALIN THE LIFE AND DEATH OF MARY WOLLESTONECRAFTBook( 28)
Thursday, 13 April 2006
8:34:47 PM
1. DAHL ‘On Democracy’ Yale Noto Bene Very good indeed, well written readable prose (Ac)
2. WEST AND WEST ‘Four Texts on Socrates, Plato, and Aristophanes’ MIT OCW. Political Theory Course(Ac)
3. BURKE EDMUND [...]
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