Reading What Sport Tells Us About Life by Ed Smith As well as The Chinese Garden of Serenity, Vishy also sent me What Sport Tells Us About Life. Again, it was a thoughtful gift. Although…
Reading A Chinese Garden of Serenity by Hung Tzu-ch’eng My friend Vishy gave me A Chinese Garden of Serenity for Christmas. It was such a nice surprise to open the package from…
Living Halcyon Days The phrase “halcyon days” has always meant nothing more to me than general nostalgia. Since moving to Crete, and more particularly since…
Reading “Rogue” sociology?: Floating City by Sudhir Venkatesh What a difference a title makes, or even a subtitle. The version I read, the US edition which I received as a…
Reading Paul Robeson: A Watched Man by Jordan Goodman If you’ve ever wondered just how far government agencies will go to keep us safe from ideas that they find dangerous, this account of…
Reading 2013 reading highlights I’m always a bit suspicious of those “Best books of 2013” articles. I read lots of them anyway, and carefully note down…
ReadingThinking Interactive apps for books: Q&A with author Vince Kamp Personally, I like reading traditional, app-free books. I like to immerse myself in a story, taking a break from all the pictures…
Reading The Spinning Heart by Donal Ryan OK, how good is this opening paragraph? My father still lives back in the road past the weir in the cottage I…