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Rhiannon

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« Reply #25 on: May 16, 2018, 10:19:33 PM »
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The Innocence of Objects by Orhan Pamuk

The Bronte Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz
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« Reply #26 on: May 16, 2018, 10:33:29 PM »
Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius - Winifred Gérin (half-way through it at the moment.)
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« Reply #27 on: May 16, 2018, 11:04:52 PM »
The Growth of the Mind: and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence by Stanley Greenspan
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« Reply #28 on: May 17, 2018, 01:56:39 PM »
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin
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Robert Macfarlane

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« Reply #29 on: May 17, 2018, 03:03:49 PM »

The Science of Discworld III Darwins Watch. The late great Sir Terry Pratchett, Ian Stewart and Jack Cohen.
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« Reply #30 on: May 17, 2018, 04:08:32 PM »
The Dean’s Watch - Elizabeth Goudge
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« Reply #31 on: May 17, 2018, 04:12:16 PM »
Quote from: Nearly Sane on May 16, 2018, 04:54:07 PM
The Screwtape Letters - C S Lewis

Krapp's Last Tape - Samuel Beckett
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« Reply #32 on: May 17, 2018, 04:15:28 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on May 17, 2018, 01:56:39 PM
On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life - Charles Darwin

The Invention of Nature - Andrea Wulf
(About Alexander von Humboldt who influenced and met Darwin - and influenced huge numbers of other scientists as well)

All I knew about him before I read this was the Humboldt Current and the Humboldt Squid.
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« Reply #33 on: May 17, 2018, 04:20:37 PM »
Quote from: Gonnagle on May 16, 2018, 10:19:01 AM
Witches Abroad. The late Great Sir Terry Pratchett.

Witch Amongst Us - Lois Bourne

(She lived a few miles away from me in Keynsham - whose previous most famous inhabitant was one Horace Batchelor, who broadcast on Radio Luxembourg his 'infallible' method of winning on the football pools)
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« Reply #34 on: May 17, 2018, 04:22:43 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on May 16, 2018, 12:40:58 PM
Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene

Travels with a Donkey - Robert Luis Stevenson
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« Reply #35 on: May 17, 2018, 04:27:13 PM »
Quote from: Dicky Underpants on May 17, 2018, 04:22:43 PM
Travels with a Donkey - Robert Luis Stevenson

The Golden Ass - Apuleius
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« Reply #36 on: May 17, 2018, 04:29:32 PM »
Quote from: Gordon on May 15, 2018, 02:07:39 PM
'So long and thanks for all the fish' by Douglas Adams.

Cod - A Biography of the Fish that changed the World
Mark Kurlansky
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« Reply #37 on: May 17, 2018, 04:30:56 PM »
Quote from: Trentvoyager on May 16, 2018, 12:54:27 PM
The Crow Road - Iain Banks

Crow - poems by Ted Hughes
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« Reply #38 on: May 17, 2018, 04:35:11 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on May 16, 2018, 11:04:52 PM
The Growth of the Mind: and the Endangered Origins of Intelligence by Stanley Greenspan

Battle for the Mind - William Sargant
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« Reply #39 on: May 17, 2018, 04:40:37 PM »
Quote from: Rhiannon on May 16, 2018, 10:19:33 PM
The Bronte Cabinet: Three Lives in Nine Objects by Deborah Lutz

Discourse on the Eighth and Ninth (author unknown: 2nd C CE)

Talk about obscure - I just put that one in for the possible Gnostics among us.
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« Reply #40 on: May 17, 2018, 04:46:13 PM »
Quote from: Steve H on May 16, 2018, 10:33:29 PM
Charlotte Brontë: the Evolution of Genius - Winifred Gérin (half-way through it at the moment.)



The Good Queen Charlotte -Percy Hetherington Fitzgerald
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« Reply #41 on: May 17, 2018, 06:31:53 PM »
I thought we were only supposed to connect to the post before ours! Like your name by the way Dicky.

A Woman with a Past by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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« Reply #42 on: May 17, 2018, 11:13:58 PM »
Quote from: Robbie on May 17, 2018, 06:31:53 PM
I thought we were only supposed to connect to the post before ours! Like your name by the way Dicky.

A Woman with a Past by F. Scott Fitzgerald
We are. Dicky's being a dickhead.
Going back to before DU poxed things up;
The Watch and Clock Encyclopedia - Donald De Carle.
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« Reply #43 on: May 17, 2018, 11:20:28 PM »
The Night Watchman by John le Carre
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« Reply #44 on: May 17, 2018, 11:25:01 PM »
Go Set a Watchman by Harper Lee
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« Reply #45 on: May 17, 2018, 11:34:22 PM »
(About halfway through that one Gordon)

A Man and His Watch by Matthew Hranek
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« Reply #46 on: May 18, 2018, 12:22:24 AM »
Watches - David Thompson
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I came to realise that every time we recognise something human in creatures, we are also recognising something creaturely in ourselves. That is central to the rejection of human supremacism as the pernicious doctrine it is.
Robert Macfarlane

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« Reply #47 on: May 18, 2018, 09:28:54 AM »
I quite like Dicky going off piste, interesting, especially Lois Bourne.

Anyway-

The Clocks - Agatha Christie.
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« Reply #48 on: May 18, 2018, 11:33:58 AM »

Thief of Time. The late great Sir Terry Pratchett.
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Rhiannon

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« Reply #49 on: May 18, 2018, 11:54:20 AM »
The Book Thief - Markus Zusak.
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