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Tag Archives: Earth’s Children
This Week at the Library (11/9)
This Week at the Library (11/9) Currently Listening To: “Waking Up in the Universe“, Richard Dawkins ” It is sometimes said that scientists are unromantic, that their passion to figure out robs the world of beauty and mystery. But is … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (1/9)
Current Music: “Never There“, Cake I had hoped to delay this week’s update until I was able to read Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, but getting my hands on a copy of the final book has been harder than … Continue reading
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Tagged Astronomy, banned book, children's literature, Children-YA, Earth's Children, Harry Potter, Meterology, science, week in review
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This Week At the Library (13/8)
Smellincoffee003: I read my first Harry Potter book today.Potterhead: excellentPotterhead: and?Smellincoffee003: I kinda liked it.Potterhead: muhuhahahaha They’re out to get me! This is the library I have gone to all of my life, by the way. I literally grew up … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (6/8)
It didn’t take me long to zip through this week’s reading for whatever reason; the gods directed me to a select some very readable books, I suppose. The first book I read was Al Franken’s Lies and the Lying Liars … Continue reading
This Week at the Library (2/8)
Last week’s reading was primarily nonfiction, as half my reading pertained to the classes I’m going to be taking. The other two books — Theories for Everything and The Mammoth Hunters — were unrelated to my classes. The first book … Continue reading
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Tagged ancient world, backdated, banned book, Earth's Children, history, history of science, humanities, Medieval, science, survey, week in review
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This Week At the Library (12/7)
The first book I read last week was Jean M. Auel’s The Valley of Horses. It is the second in Auel’s Earth’s Children series, and I found it immensely entertaining if a bit too fantastic to be believable. In the … Continue reading
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Tagged backdated, banned book, cats, dolphins, Earth's Children, Isaac Asimov, Jean M. Auel, Philip Margolin, short story collection, vintage SF, week in review
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This Week at the Library (3/7)
I’ve had a lot of good reading the last few weeks, which is not suprising given how heavily steeped my library selections were in science. I began with Before the Dawn by Nicholas Wade. The cover of the book is … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, backdated, banned book, Donald M. McKale, Earth's Children, futurism, history, humanities, Isaac Asimov, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, Jean M. Auel, Kahlil Gibran, Lewis Wolpert, Nature, Nicholas Wade, poetry, psychology, science, V.S. Ramachandran, week in review
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