OT?: Darwin, redux

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...) that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my "to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill

The evolution of beer:

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On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:11:33 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...) that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my "to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill


A very enjoyable listen.


g.c.

On 9/26/06 12:47 PM, in article ,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:11:33 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...) that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my "to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill


A very enjoyable listen.

Indeed! And the book, magically, has moved up on my "to read" list. First
I have to finish Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey", which I've somehow never
read before now. Fortunately it is quite short and quite enjoyable. Up
next is Doctorow's "The March". Then'll be Quammen, which displaced
Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" place in the #3 spot.

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Bill

ps. Whatcha reading at the moment, George?

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:58:44 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 9/26/06 12:47 PM, in article ,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:11:33 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr. Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...) that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my "to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill


A very enjoyable listen.

Indeed! And the book, magically, has moved up on my "to read" list. First
I have to finish Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey", which I've somehow never
read before now. Fortunately it is quite short and quite enjoyable. Up
next is Doctorow's "The March". Then'll be Quammen, which displaced
Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" place in the #3 spot.

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Bill

ps. Whatcha reading at the moment, George?


I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter, which is pretty
good. Add to that "I Have Landed : The end of a beginning in natural
history" by Stephen Jay Gould, which is somewhat disappointing. I'm
also re-reading "Two in the Far North" by Margaret Murie, which I'm
enjoying even more the second time.

g.c.

George Cleveland wrote:


I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter, which is pretty
good. Add to that "I Have Landed : The end of a beginning in natural
history" by Stephen Jay Gould, which is somewhat disappointing. I'm
also re-reading "Two in the Far North" by Margaret Murie, which I'm
enjoying even more the second time.

As long as we're posting reading lists, here's what's on my shelf:

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The Sea, John Banville
The Last Expedition (Stanley's Mad journey through the Congo), Daniel
Liebowitz and Charles Pearson

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rw wrote:
George Cleveland wrote:

I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter....

As long as we're posting reading lists, here's what's on my shelf:

Letter to a Christian Nation, Sam Harris
The God Delusion, Richard Dawkins
The Sea, John Banville
The Last Expedition (Stanley's Mad journey through the Congo), Daniel
Liebowitz and Charles Pearson

obroff: Read Casting a Spell by George Black at the beginning of the
month. History of split cane rod making in the U.S., focusing on a
small number of the best early and contemporary makers. Much better
than I had expected it to be.

More recently, I've read Packer's The Assassins' Gate and Gordon &
Trainor's Cobra II, and am now in the middle of Woodward's Plan of
Attack. I'd be most grateful if someone could please give me one good
reason why Rumsfeld shouldn't have been fired two years ago, at the
very latest....

Thanks for the head's up on Quammen's new book, George. His Song of the
Dodo is one of my favorite natural history books.

- JR

JR wrote:
rw wrote:
As long as we're posting reading lists, here's what's on my shelf:

[snip]

Cyclops, an old Cussler techno-thriller
Twin Tracks, by James Burke (the 'connections' guy)
Always have Robert Service in the stack
Waiting Amazon's shipment of Variable Star, by Spider Robinson from
notes by Robert A. Heinlein, and Schroedinger's Ball, by Adam Felber

cheers

oz, who notices the bass are nearing the surface much more lately

"George Cleveland" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:58:44 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 9/26/06 12:47 PM, in article
,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:11:33 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr.
Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...)
that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my
"to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already
read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an
FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill


A very enjoyable listen.

Indeed! And the book, magically, has moved up on my "to read" list.
First
I have to finish Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey", which I've somehow
never
read before now. Fortunately it is quite short and quite enjoyable. Up
next is Doctorow's "The March". Then'll be Quammen, which displaced
Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" place in the #3 spot.

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Bill

ps. Whatcha reading at the moment, George?


I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter, which is pretty
good. Add to that "I Have Landed : The end of a beginning in natural
history" by Stephen Jay Gould, which is somewhat disappointing. I'm
also re-reading "Two in the Far North" by Margaret Murie, which I'm
enjoying even more the second time.

Haven't seen the Quammen book......probably hasn't made it to the bargain
bits yet. Read Porter's "Blood and Guts: A Short History of Medicine" about
a year ago. Short and sweet. I have his "Flesh in the Age of Reason"
somewhere in the "to be read " stack, along with 60 or so others. Gould
remains amazingly prolific for a dead guy. Haven't delved into anything of
his for a few years after overdosing pretty badly during the 90s.

Currently mired in "The Goddess and the Bull" by Michael Balter, partly
because of long and tedious biographical sketches occluding the occasional
archeological gems (there's has just GOT TO be a useful analogy in there),
but mostly because I got snared by a book of stupid Sudoku puzzles that
Jacci left behind at Fisher's shack. Tell her I said THANKS A LOT!, George.


Next on the list is virtually impossible to predict, but I'm leaning rather
heavily toward Terry Pratchett's "Thud," Lisa Jardine's "On a Grander
Scale," or Rebecca Solnit's "A Field Guide to Getting Lost."

Wolfgang
who keeps hearing prognostications about the imminent demise of the printed
book and just wishes they'd hurry the **** up about it so he can finally
catch up.

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 10:32:37 -0500, "Wolfgang"
wrote:


"George Cleveland" wrote in message
.. .
On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 13:58:44 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

On 9/26/06 12:47 PM, in article
,
"George Cleveland" wrote:

On Tue, 26 Sep 2006 12:11:33 -0400, William Claspy
wrote:

We haven't discussed Darwin here in a while...

Ran across a new book in our collection entitled "The Reluctant Mr.
Darwin"
by David Quammen (perhaps you've already seen this one, Wolfgang...)
that
has gotten some favorable attention. One such was this recent spot on
Morning Edition:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/s...toryId=6105541

At any rate, I just thought I'd pass along this note to the bookish
Darwinians out there, as it sounds like a worthwhile read. It is on my
"to
read" list, but not yet at the top of same, let alone on the "already
read"
list, so this is not (yet, anyhow) a personal recommendation. Just an
FYI
readers advisory from somewhere deep in the stacks.

Bill


A very enjoyable listen.

Indeed! And the book, magically, has moved up on my "to read" list.
First
I have to finish Sterne's "A Sentimental Journey", which I've somehow
never
read before now. Fortunately it is quite short and quite enjoyable. Up
next is Doctorow's "The March". Then'll be Quammen, which displaced
Pollan's "The Omnivore's Dilemma" place in the #3 spot.

It's a tough job, but someone's got to do it.

Bill

ps. Whatcha reading at the moment, George?


I'm reading "Madness: A Brief History" by Roy Porter, which is pretty
good. Add to that "I Have Landed : The end of a beginning in natural
history" by Stephen Jay Gould, which is somewhat disappointing. I'm
also re-reading "Two in the Far North" by Margaret Murie, which I'm
enjoying even more the second time.


Currently mired in "The Goddess and the Bull" by Michael Balter, partly
because of long and tedious biographical sketches occluding the occasional
archeological gems (there's has just GOT TO be a useful analogy in there),
but mostly because I got snared by a book of stupid Sudoku puzzles that
Jacci left behind at Fisher's shack. Tell her I said THANKS A LOT!, George.




Wolfgang
who keeps hearing prognostications about the imminent demise of the printed
book and just wishes they'd hurry the **** up about it so he can finally
catch up.



She says YOU'RE WELCOME!


g.c.