0266 | Into the Crocodile’s Nest | Benedict Allen
Context: Read this the lovely warm conservatory overlooking our friends’ garden in Flackwell Heath. REVIEW Benedict Allen would, these days, have his own TV series and have put a…
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0247 | Some Experiences of a New Guinea Resident Magistrate – C. A. W. Monckton
Context: put some new strings on my old Eko and then got a blister I played it so much! REVIEW They don’t write books like this anymore. You know when…
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0244 | Mountains Beyond Mountains – Tracy Kidder
Context: Started this off at a friend’s house in Studley Green in the rolling Chiltern hills. REVIEW Another book given to me on my last birthday which I thought I…
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0243 | Chances Are… | Michael & Ellen Kaplan
Context: Finished this off as we stayed with friends in Flackwell Heath. REVIEW Got this for my last birthday and thoughtI’d better finish it before my next birthday comes round!…
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0241 | Think | Simon Blackburn
Context: while I was reading this, the guy who owns the house we’re living in broke his ankle. REVIEW My wife’s aunt gave me this one for Christmas…. (ahem) Christmas…
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0235 | The Prodigal God – Timothy Keller
Context: Read this while feeling grim in bed in my grandmother’s old bedroom with her crucifix above me. REVIEW A friend (the same one who lent me the superb Knowing…
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0227 | Knowing Me, Knowing You – Goldberg & Wharton
Context: started working out with some weights while reading this. REVIEW This book has been a real milestone for me in understanding not just why I like to behave the…
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0223 | The Coast Watchers – Eric Feldt
Context: finished this off at the desk where I’m doing my research job downstairs at 77 Field View. REVIEW This book tells the story of the Coast Watchers, a group…
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0218 | The Trobrianders of Papua New Guinea – Annette B. Weiner
Context: Read this in bed on a rainy, rainy autumn day in Bar Hill. REVIEW The Trobriand Islands are a small archipelago just north east of the mainland coast of…
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0217 | The White Man Will Eat You – William F. Wormsley
Context: Finished this off while using a hot water bottle to ease an ache in my hamstring. Too much jogging. REVIEW A good ethnography gives you an inside view into…
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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…