- Follow Reading Freely on WordPress.com
Reading Now
-
Recent Posts
Categories
Blogroll
- Seeking a Little Truth
- The Social Porcupine
- Inspire Virtue
- Classics Considered
- With Freedom, Books, Flowers, and the Moon
- The Inquisitive Biologist
- Relevant Obscurity
- Trek Lit Reviews
- Stoic Meditations
- A Pilgrim in Narnia
- Gently Mad
- The Frugal Chariot
- The Historians' Manifesto
- Classical Carousel
- Lydia Schoch
- The Classics Club
- Fanda Classiclit
- Reading In Between the Life
- The Bilbiphibian
Archives
Meta
Author Archives: smellincoffee
A Life of Her Own
A Life of Her Own: the Transformation of a Countrywoman in Twentieth-Century France.Emilie Carles, © 1991Penguin Books — Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England This book came to me through one of my university courses. I picked it up on Tuesday intending to … Continue reading
Posted in history, Reviews
Tagged biography, France, history, humanities, memoir, The Great War
2 Comments
This Week at the Library (22/10)
Books this Update: Upsetting the Balance, Harry Turtledove The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Roy Porter Nightfall, Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverburg Click book titles for in-depth comments on each. I continued this week in the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove, … Continue reading
Nightfall
NightfallIsaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg, © 1990Bantam Books, New York339 pages. If the stars should appear one night in a thousand years, how would men believe and adore and preserve for many generations the remembrance of the city of God! … Continue reading
The Greatest Benefit to Mankind
(Click title to see the book cover.)The Greatest Benefit to MankindRoy Porter, © 1997W.W. Norton & Company: New York, London831 pages I’ve been reading The Greatest Benefit to Mankind for the past two weeks. Its full title is “The Greatest … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science
Tagged history of science, humanities, medicine, recommended to me, science
Leave a comment
Worldwar: Upsetting the Balance
Worldwar: Upsetting the BalanceHarry Turtledove © 1996Del Rey/Ballantine Books/Random House; New York530 p. I continued in the Worldwar series this week. The front cover is rather interesting, as it depicts Albert Einstein, General Ike Eisenhower, and former Italian dictator Benito … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged alt-history, Harry Turtledove, military, science fiction
Leave a comment
This Week at the Library (15/10)
Books this Update: The Story of the Titanic, As Told By Its Passengers Trial by Error, Mark Garland Forward the Foundation, Isaac Asimov I made a decision earlier in the week to change the format of this blog. For over … Continue reading
Forward the Foundation
Prelude to FoundationIsaac Asimov © 1993Doubleday Publishing, New York341 pages For nearly fifty years, Isaac Asimov thrilled millions of readers with his internationally bestselling Foundation Series, a spell-binding tale of the future that spans hundreds of years and dozens of … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged Foundation Series, Isaac Asimov, science fiction
Leave a comment
Trial By Error
Trial by ErrorMark Garland, © 1997Pocket Books Trial by Error is a Star Trek paperback, set in the Deep Space Nine series. The setting is Deep Space Nine, near the planet Bajor and stationed near the Alpha Quadrant wormhole, a … Continue reading
Posted in Reviews, science fiction
Tagged Deep Space Nine, science fiction, Star Trek
Leave a comment
The Story of the Titanic
The Story of the Titanic, as Told By Its SurvivorsEdited by Jack Winocour; 320 pages.Dover Publications, Inc. New York© 1960 The story of the R.M.S. Titanic, of the White Star Line, is one of the most tragically short is is … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (7/10)
Books this Update Tilting the Balance, Harry Turtledove Prelude to Foundation, Isaac Asimov Parasite Rex, Carl Zimmer I continued in the Worldwar series by Harry Turtledove, which sees an alien invasion of Earth in 1942 — thus interrupting the second … Continue reading
Reading Freely 