Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label books. Show all posts
Thursday, November 29, 2018

Why we need to ration non-fiction books

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Since 1950, the number of book titles has soared by at least 500% - in the UK case by almost 10 times . And, since 2013, the number of non-...
Sunday, March 18, 2018

A Priceless Guide to the writing about the Global Crisis

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The last post tried not only to identify what it was that had so impressed me about the “Defending Politics” book but also to generalise po...
Wednesday, March 14, 2018

Books on Big Issues - Prefaces and marketing blurbs

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I did a rare thing yesterday – I went back to the "Defending Politics" book I had just finished and reread it from beginning to e...
Sunday, March 5, 2017

Bucharest's English bookshop closes its doors - hopefully temporarily

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Tens of thousands of demonstrators on the Bucharest street are still hoping to shame the new Romanian government into wholesale resigna...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Going to the Dogs

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I stayed in Koln last year for almost 3 months and was a regular visitor to its various bookshops and bookstalls. One post looked at the f...
Tuesday, May 13, 2014

Smart and slow Books?

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I ’ve begun to realise that the little Guide or briefing which I’ve been working on for the past few days (called, for the moment, ...
Saturday, December 3, 2011

vegetables, books, grids and groups

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The vegetable shop on the corner is the busiest shop I have ever known – although it does seem to be the older generation which uses it. W...
Sunday, March 20, 2011

Music and book links

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A strong white-out greeted me this morning – a light snow covering and thick mist. One of the nice things about a nomadic life (at the mome...
Wednesday, February 2, 2011

paintings and books - what else?

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An early and cold trip across Sofia to Central Forum Hotel - first by tram to the centre, then by foot to catch a 5 tram down Makedonia Bv...
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Monday, November 22, 2010

Books

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A delightful day yesterday at the Annual Book Fair held in the huge Pavilion Expo beside the grotesque Stalinist Press House – which was „h...
Friday, November 5, 2010

Graphic writing

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Yesterday was very spectacular here – the light from the cloudless blue sky had a special edge to it - caused partly by the low arc the su...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Dinan and Becherel

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Monday was overcast and cold – as we headed with Adrian and Susanna following – to Dinan on the minor roads north. Dinan is quite amazing –...

Ploermel et al

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The weekend was the English bank holiday – so we had the pleasure of a visit from Susanna and Adrian – arriving midnight. Vide greniers had ...
Tuesday, October 20, 2009

books which made an impact

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The painting is so appropriate at the moment - when I am trying to identify the books which have made an impact on me. The storm which was r...