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Reviews: Music and Middle Ages
Lately, I've been in a non-fiction-ish mood. Here's what I've read so far:
Musicophilia by Oliver Sachs is a collection of essays of varying length about music and the brain. He spends most of the book talking about music and various brain disorders, from Alzheimer's disease to obscure ones like Williams syndrome. Some of the essays illustrate ( Read more... ) -
Favorite non-fiction read in 2007
x-posted w/minor edits from my l.j., a top-5 list ( Read more... ) -
I can't believe I don't have any zombie icons!
Last year I requested that my local library buy a few books on zombie cinema. Pretend We're Dead: Capitalist Monsters in American Pop Culture was okay - it read a bit too much like a dissertation (which it was). Very "cultural studies" - I had a hard time discerning the chicken or the egg - did the filmakers intentionally make horror films that ( Read more... ) -
ED?
I'm really interested in the history of the idea of environmental determinism. I don't want to be convinced that it's wrong, or that it's right, but I'd like to read something on the history of the debate, and how it's shaped various academic disciplines.
Does such a book exist, or shall I have one of you write it for me? -
Non Fic Reading
What have I been reading? Lately, it's been Hannah Arendt's Origins of Totalitarianism, a daunting tome. It's to help me understand teh current of history for the new book I am writing. -
Hillary Clinton Biographies
Two biographies of Hillary Clinton came out recently (within days of one another) - A Woman in Charge and Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton. With the election coming up, and after hearing an interview with one of the New York Times book reviewers about both books, I'm really interested in reading one or the other (but ( Read more... ) -
The nonfic in my life.
This place has been awfully quiet, so I thought I'd share my recent nonfic reads. Well, as of this year, anyway.
In January, I read Graham Hancock's Supernatural in which he runs the gamut from early human cave paintings to gods, and angels, fairies, psychedelics, shamans, and aliens and links them all together as basically the same phenomenon. In ( Read more... ) -
Nostalgia
Years ago, I read Prague by Arthur Phillips. I can't write a full review since it was so long ago, but I remember it being remarkable. A very rich story about the joys and difficulties of expat Americans living in Budapest ( Read more... )
