Is it possible to get a refund from a free box? That is the question this book raises.
The wise old economist speaks
Thirty-fifth book reviewed as part of the 130 Challenge. Amartya Sen is the benevolent, wise and knowledgeable grandpa that I never had. He talks of some of the stickiest issues and suggests solutions that sound beguilingly simple, mainly because he explains them in that tone of a wise old man. He talks of secularism, poverty, hunger, gender inequality, the nuclear arms race, the identity of India and the idea of Indian culture. These are quite drab topics to write about, and indeed, to read about. […]
Nick Offerman is just like Ron Swanson in all the right ways.
And for reference, I’m your typical Commie-Liberal-Feminist. But, even if you’re not, you’ll probably love him anyway. (Side Note- I’m kinda weirded it out that no one posted anything since my last post from yesterday. Is it always like this towards the end?)
Reese Witherspoon is a good actor.
As an extra for the movie version of this book, I was in a scene in a post office where Strayed had been expecting a package and it wasn’t there. My off camera position to wait for the next take happened to be exactly where Witherspoon walked to when she made her exit. She seemed so angry, it was frightening to have her coming right towards me. She knows what she’s doing, that’s for sure.
Would you lease your house to this species?
There are a lot of things going wrong in the world, but it is difficult to downplay the ecological crises we are currently witnessing. Repeated studies have been published describing a loss of biodiversity happening at a rate never seen before. Elizabeth Kolbert’s The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History describes the extinctions that are occurring around us in the context of five major extinctions in Earth’s history. Unlike so many books about environmental crises, Kolbert stays even-keeled, with a journalist’s approach to describing what, why, […]
Demythologizing a tragedy.
Firstly, this book was excellent, and I recommend it for everyone. So if you don’t read this review further than the first sentence, you’ve already gotten the message. Columbine is a book ten years in the making. Dave Cullen was one of the first journalists on the scene the day that Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold wreaked their violence, and he spent the next decade painstakingly researching the incident, determined to tell the story of what actually happened that day. This might seem like a ploy […]
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