Tag: Robert MacFarlane

#MyHouseofSky #JABaker #review and my #reading in December

Posted by | Published on December 19, 2017

“There is no mysterious essence we can call a ‘place’. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber […] 

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May 2015: My Reading

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Certain books, though, like certain landscapes, stay with us even when we have left them, changing not just our weathers but our climates. Robert MacFarlane […] 

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Review: Untitled (Past, Present, Future)  →

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Visiting the Stedelijk Museum with my family, after three rewarding but long days of getting value for money from our museum discount card, was one highlight of our time in […] 

George Orwell and William Shakespeare  →

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George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-50) is now clearly second only to Shakespeare in the pantheon of English literary giants. In our current contemporary context, where hyperbole is coin of […] 

Orwell in Paris: War Correspondent*  →

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Wearing the uniform of a British officer, George Orwell returned to Paris in February 1945 as a war correspondent for The Observer and Manchester Evening News. He had resigned as […] 

Orwell’s Streptomycin  →

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“I am a lot better, but I had a bad fortnight with the secondary effects of the streptomycin. I suppose with all these drugs it’s rather a case of sinking […] 

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