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Mark’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mark’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Mark L. Mitchell
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September 2008
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23 Autopsies: A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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Nineteen Autopsies. A Companion for the Study of Pathology
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Death in a Shallow Pond: A Philosopher, a Drowning Child, and Strangers in Need
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| A nice, and I thought readable, account of the development of ethical altruism and the ideas and positions of the philosopher, Peter Singer. I was only superficially familiar with EA and Singer, and I appreciated that the second part of the book summ ...more | |
"I am a big WW1 air war buff and have read many books (both fiction and non-fiction) on the subject including Jack Hunter's "The Blue Max" a couple times, first read back in the 1960s. But it's been a while so I thought that I would re-read the book.."
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"I admit I considered leaving this novel unfinished. Set at the turn of the 18th century in the colony of Virginia, Perry has written a relentless and horrific tale of slavery with an emphasis on the sexual predation of the enslaved women and the hear"
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"'Lavinia" is based on a barely mentioned (but important) character (Aeneas' last wife) in "The Aeneid", but you do not have to read "The Aeneid" to understand and enjoy Le Guin's book. She does her usual fine job, and writes a book that I found hard "
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| An absorbing account of the history of systematic categorization of living things that is mostly a dual biography of Carl Linnaeus and the lesser-known Georges-Louis de Buffon. The story extends from the coevals of the principals to modern times and ...more | |
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| I think I'd have to know much more about Buddhism to be able to evaluate this book, written as answers to a beginner's likely questions. Many of the concepts discussed seem simple, but not simple to do, and since devotees may spend their lives addres ...more | |
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| I am an admirer of Saunders, but the main question that occurred to me while reading Vigil was: If I didn't know who Saunders was, and I hadn't read his great masterpiece Lincoln in the Bardo, what would this novel mean to me? The answer is, not too ...more | |
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| This is a very clever book version of Josh Starmer's YouTube videos that explains machine learning like a graphic novel, with the help of characters StatSquatch and Normalsaurus. We are shown, for example, step by step how a decision tree is made, wh ...more | |
“We spend our life, it's ours, trying to bring together in the same instant a ray of sunshine and a free bench...”
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
― Stories and Texts for Nothing
“I had also, during many years, followed a golden rule, namely that whenever published fact, a new observation of thought came across me, which was opposed to my general results, to make a memorandum of it without fail and at once; for I had found by experience that such facts and thoughts were far more apt to escape from the memory than favourable ones.”
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“Knowledge, as opposed to fantasies of wish fulfilment, is difficult to come by.”
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“I'll be riding rough horses when you are salted away in a box.”
― The Time It Never Rained
― The Time It Never Rained
“All cruel people describe themselves as paragons of frankness.”
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