habitually probing generalist

This is the 3rd update to the Two-Thirds book Challenge. E  2/3 Book Challenge: A Visit from the Goon Squad E read this for her book club back in November but didn’t get the review posted until early January. She has been having a legitimately busy life the last several months. Hopefully things will calm [...]

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The Myth of the Eternal Return: Cosmos and History (Princeton Classic Editions) Mircea Eliade, M. Eliade; Princeton University Press 2005 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 5th book that I have read for My Two-Thirds Book Challenge. I stated at the end of my review of Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces that I hoped [...]

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English after the fall: from literature to textuality Robert Scholes; University of Iowa Press 2011 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Disclaimer: I received an uncorrected proof copy of this book as part of the Library Thing Early Reviewer Program. I read this book from 23 Nov – 13 Dec 2011 and the bottom line is that I enjoyed [...]

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Cribbed from Angel at The Itinerant Librarian. 1 The book I am currently reading. Like Angel, I usually have more than one book going. I am currently reading the following: The Complete Poems of Marianne Moore; Joseph Campbell’s The Hero with a Thousand Faces; Hermann Melville’s Billy Budd and other stories; and about a half [...]

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  I read this aloud to Sara (and myself) from 22 May – 8 June. I quite enjoyed this book despite being familiar with some of the author’s argument due to reading his blog Text Patterns at The New Atlantis.  I recommend his blog. Jacobs is the author of several books: The Pleasures of Reading [...]

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Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life Karen Armstrong; Knopf 2010 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is an important book. But it is a book which cannot simply be read to do any good. Caveat: I simply read it. Before I go on, let me recommend that you get the book from a library and read it. If [...]

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The technology of orgasm: “hysteria,” the vibrator, and women’s sexual satisfaction Rachel P. Maines; The Johns Hopkins University Press 1998 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder I really wanted to title this “universal orgasmic mutuality” [see below] but I figure this post is already going to draw too much of the wrong traffic to my blog. ::sigh:: This book [...]

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The social life of information John Seely Brown, Paul Duguid; Harvard Business School Press 2002 WorldCat•Read Online•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder This is the 8th book for my 12 Books, 12 Months Challenge. Short version: Librarians, and others in any “information industry,” should read it and ponder its critiques of “information fetishism.” I bought this book back in [...]

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A Short History of Myth (Myths, The) Karen Armstrong; Canongate U.S. 2006 WorldCat•LibraryThing•Google Books•BookFinder Sara also read this book recently.  I think that helped me as we had already discussed it a fair bit while she was reading it, and I had the benefit of her blog post about it. Go read Sara’s review, which [...]

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In Fall 2005 I took a class with Prof. Chip Bruce on Pragmatic Technology. One of our assignments was to: Produce an analysis of one keyword of your choice (see Raymond Williams, Keywords A vocabulary of culture and society. Revised edition. New York: Oxford University Press) for examples. This keyword is not just an index [...]

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