verywide.net » Novels http://verywide.net/blog Just trying to catch butterflies, fish, lunatics, and stars, metaphorically speaking. Sun, 16 Aug 2009 00:17:38 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 en hourly 1 With time on my hands, I read. (Pt. 2) http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/ http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/#comments Fri, 13 Jan 2006 00:27:56 +0000 Moody http://verywide.net/blog/2006/01/12/with-time-on-my-hands-i-read-pt-2/ Current and imminent reading:

The Ancestor’s Tale: A Pilgrimage to the Dawn of Evolution, by Richard Dawkins

Thanks to 3 Quarks Daily for pointing me in the direction of this work. I sincerely hope you’ll take a look at Dawkins’s 2004 “Notable Book of the Year” (and, yes, I know it’s 2006, now, thank you – but [...]

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Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, by J.K. Rowling

The sixth installment in Rowling’s series finds Harry facing his greatest trial so far, with promises of graver difficulties to come, as he comes to face the dire nature of his (apparent) fate.

While I would not go so far as to compare Rowling’s opus to Tolkien’s [...]

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