Today’s Book Review is It’s a Boy, edited by Andrea Buchanan. A very interesting project, it’s a collection of essays from women writers on raising sons. I found it quite startling just how many (the overwhelming majority) were about the woman’s experience of coming to terms with the fact thatContinue Reading
Today’s book review (I’m not promising weekly any more!) is Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man, Nature, and Climate Change, by Elizabeth Kolbert. It is a fairly slim book, based on a series she did for the New Yorker in 2005, and I read it after reading the review onContinue Reading
This week’s book review is a survey of Neal Stephenson‘s work. I’ve lately been on a kick of re-reading all our Neal Stephenson books, partly prompted by tigtog‘s rave review of SnowCrash. Tigtog’s rave was mostly about one of the main characters, YT (a sexy intelligent kick-ass woman), a variantContinue Reading
This week’s book review is The Men who Stare at Goats, by Jon Ronson. It’s hard to tell what to think about this book. Ronson is a UK journalist (for the Guardian), who investigates the US military’s dabblings in alternative culture and the paranormal over the years; or at leastContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Nowhere People, by Henry Reynolds. Henry Reynolds is probably Australia’s most prominent exponent of what its opponents call the “Black Armband” school of colonial history. The Black Armband school of history (as contrasted by its originator, Geoffrey Blainey, with the “three cheers” school of history)Continue Reading
This week’s book review is The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in historyby John M Barry. The book is the story of the “Spanish Flu” – in 1918 and 1919 (depending on where you were in the world) a deadly influenza swept the world, killing between 50Continue Reading
This week’s book review is Westpac: the Bank that Broke the Bank, by Edna Carew. Westpac started out as the Bank of New South Wales, Australia’s first bank in the early 1800s. By the 1980s, it had become Westpac, Australia’s biggest bank, with global aspirations, and a dominant position inContinue Reading
This week’s book review is Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist explores the Hidden side of Everything, by Steven J Levitt and Stephen J Dubner. I’ve seen this book reviewed all over the place, and knew it was the kind of book I would devour very quickly. Steven J Levitt is anContinue Reading
This week’s book review is The Truth Behind the Mommy Wars: Who Decides What Makes a Good Mother? by Miriam Peskowitz. I’m way behind on this one. Elizabeth at Half Changed World reviewed this nearly a year ago, and Rebel Dad has been trying to googlebomb the term “Mommy Wars”Continue Reading
This week’s book review is Dancing With Strangers: Europeans and Australians at First Contact, by Inga Clendinnen. It is a detailed historical narrative of the first five or so years of the white settlement of Australia. I’ve read Inga Clendinnen’s essays before in weekend papers, and found them hard going,Continue Reading
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