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"For people outside of Education, this is likely a strong 4-star read.
For those in Education, The Incandescent is a refreshing oasis in a sea of unfathomable #academiaaesthetic novels. Broody teacher romance and blasé indifference to child endangerme" Read more of this review » |
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| We read this with the seven-year-old, who was surprisingly involved in Anna's small childhood struggles and laughed a lot about the dead dog and learning French. It's a classic book for a reason, funny and interesting and really really scary to the a ...more | |
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| Having thought that Some Desperate Glory suffered a bit from being YA-ish, this is truly impressively the opposite. This is a book absolutely about learning and teaching (oh yeah and there's demons, they are a bit more than a metaphor but also very m ...more | |
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This book hit the sweet spot of "well-written, well-explained nonfiction storytelling on a subject I know enough about to be interested in but not enough for everything to be old news to me". It's a surprisingly fascinating story and touches on massi ...more |
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"My approach to choosing library books is very much, 'why not read it?' In this case, I spotted a paperback edition of a 500 page review examining the net zero carbon emissions target that was commissioned during the brief and doomed Liz Truss governm"
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"The Coral Bones is a novel about the Great Barrier Reef and climate change. A disproportionate amount of great anglophone climate fiction (not cli-fi) is set in Australia, I've noticed. Here the narrative includes three threads, each narrated by a wo"
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I was a hater from the start of this book due to its utterly pedestrian and occasionally nonsensical phrasing, but it does have some good points. Since the aliens only appear about 30% of the way through, a lot of whether you enjoy this book depends o ...more |
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"I picked 'Axiom's End' off the new acquisitions shelf in the library, as it has an intriguing first contact premise. The concept is that the US government has been covering up an alien crash-landing for years and in 2007 (some of) the truth finally c"
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I was a hater from the start of this book due to its utterly pedestrian and occasionally nonsensical phrasing, but it does have some good points. Since the aliens only appear about 30% of the way through, a lot of whether you enjoy this book depends o ...more |
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“There is nothing so moving - not even acts of love or hate - as the discovery that one is not alone.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
“Man is neither unique nor central nor necessarily here to stay. But he is a product of circumstances special to the point of disbelief. And if man in his current predicament seeks a fair mystique to see him through, then I can only suggest that he consider his genes. For they are marked. They are graven by luck beyond explanation. They are stamped by forces that we shall never know. But even so, in the hieroglyph of the human emergence certain symbols must stand for all to read: Change is the elixir of the human circumstance, and acceptance of challenge the way of our kind. We are bad-weather animals, disaster’s fairest children. For the soundest of evolutionary reasons man appears at his best when times are worst.”
― African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
― African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
“The dog barking at you from behind his master's fence acts for a motive indistinguishable from that of his master when the fence was built.”
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
― The Territorial Imperative: A Personal Inquiry Into the Animal Origins of Property and Nations
“We were born of risen apes, not fallen angels, and the apes were armed killers besides. And so what shall we wonder at? Our murders and massacres and missiles, and our irreconcilable regiments?”
― African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
― African Genesis: A Personal Investigation Into the Animal Origins and nature of Man
“A human being is a problem in search of a solution.”
― Thunder Rock
― Thunder Rock
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