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MannyRayner

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
Richard Dawkins
R in Action
Robert Kabacoff
Fluid Concepts and Creative Analogies
Douglas R. Hofstadter
McGee on Food and Cooking: An Encyclopedia of Kitchen Science, History and Culture
Harold McGee
Epistemic Dimensions of Personhood
Simon Evnine
Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning (Information Science and Statistics)
Christopher M. Bishop
Relativity, Thermodynamics and Cosmology
Richard C. Tolman
The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
Julia Herschensohn, Martha Young-Scholten

Japanese Proverbs and Sayings

Japanese Proverbs and Sayings - Daniel Crump Buchanan I think this is the book I used to have - someone borrowed it and I never got it back. I read it many times. Here are some of my favourites, in English translation.
To sumo-wrestle with another's loin-cloth.

If they succeed, a revolutionary army. If they fail, a bunch of terrorists.

Children: pain. No children: also pain.

The soul of the three year old child remains the same even if he lives to be a hundred.

I prefer other men's women but my own toilet.