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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
Janet and John: Here we Go (Janet and John Books)
In a recent thread, some people stated their objections to literature which fails in its duty to be gender-balanced. I can absolutely see their point, except that it is a little difficult to find books which pass the test. Almost everything I could think of did seem to have either more men than women, or more women than men. It's dreadful.In fact, I was about to give up... when I suddenly remembered Here We Go! No doubt, sneering critics will carp at the daringly minimalist plot and character development, and signally fail to appreciate the understated faux-naive style. I've had too many arguments about this to want to do it again; there are those, alas, who cannot see true greatness, even when it's thrust under their noses. But say what you will, the book is gender-balanced. Janet, John, Mother and Father: exactly 50% of each sex. I rest my case.
