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This is a lovely book about life and the best way to live it. It is philosophy in the original, and in my opinion, best sense of the word. Eric Weiner is not a philosopher, he's a journalist. He, like the rest of us, is trying to make sense of life, trying to find meaning, …
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A few years ago, I discovered that Georgette Heyer, who I had long associated with regency romance, wrote murder mysteries as well. I came across a few of her books in the crime section of my local bookshop. I picked one up, read it and loved it. She’s an excellent writer. I’ve read a few …
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This is an unassuming, but charming book. It’s about a middle-aged man, Tim Gandy, with grown children who’s just retired and is finding life rather flat. He and his wife have grown apart over the years. He finds that he has somehow, become a spectator in his own life and now that he no longer …
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The full title of this book is The Way home: Tales from a Life Without Technology, and that is essentially what it is, the record of a year of the writer’s life that he lived without any of the conveniences of modern life; no electricity, no running water, no plumbing, no computer, internet, smart phone …
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Food writing is one of my favourite genres, and few writers today, are as good at it, as Michael Pollan. He’s written several books about the production of food and the eating of it, but like he says in the introduction to Cooked, he hadn’t thought much about the middle part of this chain, the …
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This is the second book in the Lord Peter Wimsey series and it is one of the best. Lord Peter is off on vacation with his manservant, Bunter when this story begins. They have just left Corsica after a month there, and landed in Paris when they learn that Lord Peter's older brother Gerald, the …
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“I came here eight years ago as a renter of this farm, of which I soon afterward, become the owner. The time before that, I like to forget. The chief impression it left, upon my memory, now happily growing indistinct, is of being hurried faster than I could well travel…” So begins this account of …
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