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DeGrowth: A Vocabularyfor a New Era is a collection of essays exploring degrowth and related concepts. Degrowth is a philosophy that says in order for human societies to survive the climate catastrophe, we have to shrink our economies, and to re-think what it means to live a good life. The dominant ideology of our time…
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There will be a British Museum theme to most of the next few posts. Tantra by Dr Imma Ramos is the book of the British Museum exhibition on Tantra. It had just opened in early 2020 when the pandemic hit and so I didn’t get to see the exhibition itself. The book and exhibition tell…
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Welcome to my annual flurry of posts about books, where I realise I haven’t posted anything in months, have a few weeks of activity, and then get distracted by work and life again. Anyway, recently I went to the World of Stonehenge exhibition at the British Museum and, as I do, I bought a book.…
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Lion: Pride before the Fall is a photography book featuring the last lion prides in Africa, profits from which go to support the conservation work of Born Free. There are only 20,000 lions left in the wild and their range is limited to a few places in Africa, where once they could be found in…
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Writing popular science books is hard. Taking very complex topics and making them understandable to a lay person is a special skill. Carlo Rovelli is the best science writer I have ever read. Reality is not what it seems: the journey to quantum gravity is indeed a joy to read. Rovelli takes us on a…
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Book number two from the writing course reading list is Writing from the Inside Out by Dennis Palumbo. A good quarter of the books on the reading list are books on writing technique and other ‘how to write a novel’ type books. Dennis Palumbo is a scriptwriter turned psychologist whose practice centres around working with…
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I’m doing a writing course for the next nine months and the reading list is quite intimidating. There are nearly 100 books on it. It’s been less than two weeks and I’ve bought ten of them already. Obviously, I’ll buy more than I read and many will sit on the bookcase unread for years. But…
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In January 2021 I gave myself a challenge to read for thirty minutes a day, every day for a month. Prior to lockdown in March last year I read on weekdays on my commute. I had two and half hours a day on trains and tubes and at least some of that time was for…
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I don’t read a lot of poetry because I mostly don’t really get it, but occasionally something catches me. In this case, a quote in Civilization VI, when you receive the Great Writer Li Bai, an 8th century Chinese poet: Flowers surround me, alone with my drink, I pour for myself, no companion to join…
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I have always thought of gravitas as a quality; something a person has or doesn’t, that either comes naturally or develops through life experience. On examination my reasoning for that belief is flimsy. I’ve no clue how I thought some people acquire gravitas or are simply born with it and others don’t, irregardless of their…
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Boudica Marginalia 