0215 | 11th Month, 11th Day, 11th Hour – Joseph E. Persico
Context: Finished this off, appropriately, on Remembrance Sunday here in the UK. This morning we’d attended the Remembrance Service at our local church. REVIEW My mate Gareth lent me this…
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0206 | Neither Here nor There – Bill Bryson
Context: on the shelf at our friends’ place in Dubai so I thought I’d give it a go. REVIEW Read a lot of Bryson and I have to say that…
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0204 | Do You Know What You’re Doing Lord? – Carol Anderson
Context: Finished this off as the wife was cleaning jewellery which had gone mouldy whilst in storage in Papua New Guinea. REVIEW In the missionary-lore of Papua New Guinea, the…
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0202 | Schindler’s Ark – Thomas Keneally
Context: Read this at the Ukarumpa SIL base while I was visiting the LCORE building and doing some language database work. REVIEW I never did discover, while reading this, just…
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0196 | Stargazing – Peter Hill
Context: Borrowed from my mate Gareth, and finished this off just as we were packing for a six week trip to Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, PNG and UAE. REVIEW My mate…
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0191 | Japanese Language, Gender, and Ideology | Shigeko Okamoto & Janet Shibamoto Smith (eds.)
Context: Was reading this when we moved into the flat here at 77 Field View, Bar Hill. REVIEW This was a review copy I was sent for free. I’d chosen…
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0189 | The Voice of the Tambaran – Donald Tuzin
Context: Read this throughout the first week of Wimbledon and finished it just as Serena Williams won her quarterfinal match. REVIEW Tambaran is more than a sum of ideas and…
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0184 | Delivering the Goods – Colin Swatridge
Context: Moved my desk to a doorway to get a better wireless connection while reading this. REVIEW The latest in a series of books I’m reading at the moment to…
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0183 | Mambu – Kenelm Burridge
Context: Discovered the music of Eric Bibb while reading this one. Love it. REVIEW This is a bit mistitled I feel. Perhaps Kenelm felt that a name like Mambu would…
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0182 | Road Belong Cargo – Peter Lawrence
Context: The first book I read in a new pile of hard to find anthropology and linguistics books from Cambridge University Library which my resourceful helper found for me. REVIEW…
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0176 | Decision Making and the Will of God – Garry Friesen
Context: Discovered this at a key time in my walk with God at Wycliffe. REVIEW Boy I needed to read this book. It’s amazing how God brings things into your…
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0173 | Language Shift and Cultural Reproduction – Don Kulick
REVIEW This is an excellent book. It is at once thought-provoking, revealing, informative and very well written. Kulick spends months and months in the village of Gapun where no one…
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0171 | Multilingualism – John Edwards
REVIEW This is an excellent overview of the immensely detailed and frustrating world of multilingualism. Edwards’ style is very very readable, often ironic and he uses a lot of very…
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0168 | The Bishops’ Progress – Mary Taylor Huber
REVIEW This one might be hard to get hold of and I’m not entirely sure that if you have to work hard to get it, it’s going to be all…
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0167 | Attitudes and Language – Colin Baker
REVIEW If you’re into Welsh, this is the book for you. I’m not and I’m reading this in preparation for language survey work in PNG. So, was it relevant? Juuuuuust…
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0166 | Learning How to Ask – Charles Briggs
REVIEW Briggs focusses on lessons he learned while working over a period of years with a community of Mexicanos in New Mexico. He’s learned some valuable lessons, mostly through his…
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0165 | An Interesting Narrative – Olaudah Equiano
Context: while I was reading this, our clothes dryer died in the garden and we had to string up an emergency washing line REVIEW A friend bought me this for…
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0164 | Survey Research Methods – Floyd Fowler
REVIEW There’s now a fourth edition of this. I read the second edition, published just after Gutenberg got his printing press together, so these comments have to be considered in…