0179 | Embers – Sándor Márai
Context: First fiction I’ve borrowed from a British library in well over a decade. Got this one the day I joined Bar Hill library. REVIEW This is the story of…
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0178 | The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle – Haruki Murakami
Context: We listened to this in the car over weeks and weeks. Less than twenty minutes after we finished, the car’s engine died and had to be scrapped. REVIEW Murakami…
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0177 | The House on the Borderland – William Hope Hodgson
Context: Listened to this from librivox.org as we moved from Piddington back to Bar Hill. REVIEW Get a good look at that cover because that’s as scary as this ‘tale…
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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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0174 | Cryptonomicon – Neal Stephenson
Context: Started to learn to play the piano at some point in the months I spent reading this. REVIEW Many of you know that I’m pretty fixated with the 1001…
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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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0172 | The New York Trilogy – Paul Auster
Context: We spilled pesto on the bed just as I was finishing this off after dinner – mad rushing of covers to the bathroom but all is fine now. REVIEW…
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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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0170 | Erewhon – Samuel Butler
Context: While listening to this in the Wycliffe kitchens, I was informed that, due to Health & Safety regulations, I was no longer allowed to listen to audio books while…
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0169 | Little Women – Louisa May Alcott
Context: Took this along as Mrs Arukiyomi and I walked up the hill at West Wycombe and took in this view of High Wycombe from our favourite bench up there….
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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…
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0163 | Babbitt – Sinclair Lewis
Context: Listened to this courtesy of librivox.org while walking to and from work through the bluebells in Dell’s Wood. REVIEW Long ago, when my mother-in-law and her sister asked me…
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0162 | A Short History of Papua New Guinea – John Waiko
Context: Courtesy of the mother in law, I read this while working in the Wycliffe kitchens. REVIEW Reading up on PNG history is one of the areas I’m focussing on…
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0161 | A Modest Proposal – Jonathan Swift
Context: Very brief listen to this courtesy of librivox.org while working in the Wycliffe kitchens. REVIEW I was expecting something of a banal treatise on something mundane or other but,…