Author: David Schwarm
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The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester
The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary by Simon Winchester My rating: 4 of 5 stars Yet another look into the genius of the OED. Super recommended to word fans–the amount of playful word fun is amazing. There is also a lot of “behind-the-scenes” information in this volume–great stuff on Murphy,…
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Gender Trouble – Judith Butler
The Body Politics of Julia KristevaMaterial compulsion, spasm of a memory belonging to the species that either binds together or splits apart to perpetuate itself, series of markers with no other significance than the eternal return of the life-death biological cycle. How can we verbalize this prelinguistic, unrepresentable memory? Heraclitus’ flux, Epicurus’ atoms, the whirling…
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Northern Spy by Flynn Berry
Northern Spy by Flynn Berry My rating: 3 of 5 stars I read this with my SARGE Reading group–we have been on a bit of an Irish kick. It was fine–a commoner spy story, I guess. Lots of IRA history and background sprinkled in. Worth reading if that is your genre and you have real…
David Given Schwarm 