0150 | An Evil Cradling – Brian Keenan
Context: My bedtime book in our wonderful bed at Piddington. REVIEW I was at a friend’s house and spied this on the shelf. “One of the best books that I’ve…
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0149 | Becoming Sinners – Joel Robbins
Context: Read this as part of my preparation for language survey in PNG this summer. REVIEW Robbins has written a fascinating insight into the cultural mindset of the Urapmin people…
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0145 | Dreams from My Father – Barack Obama
Context: Read this when we moved into a lovely house in Piddington. REVIEW My aunt-in-law packaged this one up for me for Christmas thinking I’d like to read it. She…
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0142 | Don’t Sleep, There are Snakes – Daniel Everett
Context: Given to me by my mum for Christmas, the same lady who, about 35 years ago, made me a Winnie the Pooh I’ve recently been reunited with after giving…
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0098 | Deceived on Purpose – Warren
Context: Got this for my birthday and read it to the sound of demolition work over the road from our house in the UK. REVIEW In 2002, Rick Warren published…
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0096 | CT Studd: Cricketer & Pioneer – Norman Grubb
Context: Picked this up in an apartment with a view of the Bernese Alps where we stayed in Switzerland. REVIEW Norman Grubb is a bit of a legend. He spent…
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0089 | Angela’s Ashes – Frank McCourt
Context: After the wife had read this, I polished this off whilst in St. Petersburg REVIEW Not a bad book at all actually despite the fact that this was the…
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0087 | Kiss & Tell – Alain de Botton
Context: Finished this in a day on the Trans-Mongolian railway somewhere around Novosibirsk.REVIEW I’ve read, and greatly enjoyed, Status Anxiety and The Romantic Movement by de Botton and I honestly didn’t…
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0086 | Stalin: The Court of the Red Tsar – Simon Sebag Montefiore
Context: Finished on the Trans-Mongolian Express as we headed from Irkutsk to Moscow. REVIEW This is stellar piece of research and the book, once you get used to Montefiore’s style,…
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0085 | Gulag: A History – Anne Applebaum
Context: Finished on the Trans-Mongolian railway somewhere in the Gobi desert. REVIEW A very compelling description of the infamous Russian camp system which strikes a great balance between the politico-historical…
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0084 | 1421 – Gavin Menzies
Context: Finished this in Shanghai at the house of my mate Gavin whose collection of novels got me back into fiction after many years away. REVIEW According to Menzies, it…
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0083 | Wild Swans – Jung Chang
Context: Finished this at Stephen & Abigail’s house where we first met Matthew their son. REVIEW Finally read this book. Twice I’ve started it and I realised I needed to…
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0076 | The Bible in English ~ David Daniell
Context: Read over two years after I picked this up on a snowy day at Borders in Stockton.REVIEW This took me two years to read. But it wasn’t because it…
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0067 | Walden ~ Thoreau
REVIEW This started out really well with some very erudite remarks about the way the material world, if you, Atlas-like, manage to find a position to observe it correctly from,…
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0062 | Junky ~ William Burroughs
REVIEW After battling my way through Naked Lunch, I wasn’t sure what to expect from my second Burroughs novel. It wasn’t half as bad though thankfully.
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0061 | Istanbul ~ Orhan Pamuk
REVIEW A friend at work bought me this for my birthday way back last May. I’d said I was interested in it after reading Pamuk’s The White Castle while I…
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0041 | Paradigms in Conflict – David Hesselgrave
REVIEW Hesselgrave I know from the masterful work Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally and, like that book, this one doesn’t disappoint.
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0040 | Spiritual Power & Missions – Edward Rommen (Ed.)
REVIEW This book deals with issues that I’ve always queried, ever since my family encountered magic and witchcraft in west Africa when I was a teenager.