Saturday, January 14, 2012

Christoph Wolff, Johann Sebastian Bach: The Learned Musician (2000)

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I am not a music scholar. I enjoy listening to music, and I enjoy playing music. But I have never taken the time to study music as much as I...
Tuesday, December 20, 2011

Jose Saramago, Cain (2011)

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The story of Cain in Genesis is brief: No more than 30 or so sentences over 25 verses. Cain, the first child of Adam and Eve, is born and h...
Saturday, December 10, 2011

Rebecca Skloot, The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks (2010)

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The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks reports about a significant development in medical research that occurred during the 1950s and continue...
Friday, December 2, 2011

Howard Jacobson, The Finkler Question (2010)

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While I am not uninformed or without experience on the subject of this book --- Jewish identity --- I am probably not qualified to address i...
Sunday, November 20, 2011

Leonard Mlodinow, Euclid's Window (2001)

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This blog is, in part, an effort to connect dots --- particularly among the books that have come off my Bookshelf. A number of dots connecte...
Wednesday, November 16, 2011

David Liss, A Conspiracy of Paper (2000)

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The year is 1719 . The scene is London, England. King George I, recently arrived from Germany, sits on the throne of England. Unlike the Fre...
Sunday, November 6, 2011

Rita Carter, Mapping the Mind (Rev. 2010)

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Five postings in 2011 on books and subjects related to the mind and brain, and I was consciously aware of that fact and a desire to move on ...