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Manny Rayner's book reviews
I love reviewing books - have been doing it at Goodreads, but considering moving here.
Currently reading
The Greatest Show On Earth: The Evidence For Evolution
R in Action
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Bouvard Et Pécuchet
As I watched the heroes of Flaubert's last, unfinished novel meander aimlessly from one disaster to the next, they began to seem strangely familiar. And after a while, I couldn't help wonderingWhat Might Have Happened If Bouvard And Pécuchet Had Been Able To Join Goodreads
That year, Paris talked of nothing but the internet, and, even in Normandy, people began to experiment with the new invention. The two friends found an internet café in Caen; but the connection was slow, and the other habitués made remarks about their uncertain skills. Despite the expense, they asked Gorgu to install a broadband connection for them. After perusing a number of sites in an attempt to find one which accorded with their taste for knowledge and lively discussion, they finally discovered Goodreads.
The rest of this review is in my book If Research Were Romance and Other Implausible Conjectures
