We have three boys and no girls. Lucia is the only x-chromosome in the house. It’s hard to describe how intense the experience can be.…
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Ozymandias is one of the great poems of the English language, even if Shelley was a confused, womanising wife-swapper who drove his first wife to…
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dr ben goldacre bad pharma Bad Pharma, a new book by Ben Goldacre, looks into the research practices of big pharmacy. Apparently any negative information
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Steve Jobs was given a strange family life. Given up for adoption himself, his biological parents had another go at it and a sister was
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Just digging into Ioan Holender’s Closeup: 118 Premieren Wiener Staatsoper, the men’s gift (Herrenspend) from the 2010 Opernball, this year. I wanted to have a…
Leave a CommentI saw a bit of Legends of the Seeker, adapted from Terry Goodkind’s books. The whole series while rather entertaining if for nothing else for…
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There’s something marvelous about well written descriptive prose. I’ve just finished Luke Jenning’s Breach Candy in a single sitting by noon. I woke up early…
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John Leake’s book is one of those page turner pulp fiction works about the evil doings of a perverse and sadistic serial killer where the…
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