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Monday, July 30, 2012

Lus na gréine agus beirt seabhrac

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Ach d'fhág mé mo tí an lá eile. D'imigh mé go ansin go dtí mo san ionad oibre. Bhí maidin go hiondúil ann. Thiomaint mé níos lag...
Saturday, July 28, 2012

"The Asian Journal of Thomas Merton": Book Review

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The seven weeks of late 1968's passages are often dense with citations and musings from his studies, but in their midst, such entries ...
Thursday, July 26, 2012

Sweet + Zwilling's "Mission to Tibet" Book Review

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This new edition of Notizie istoriche , which was consulted by Pomplum as in turn his study informed this edition, appeared in the same ye...
Tuesday, July 24, 2012

Trent Pomplum's "Jesuit on the Roof of the World": Book Review

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"The gravity-defying domes and impossible skies of Jesuit architecture evoked, with precise deliberations, the interior extravagance ...
Sunday, July 22, 2012

Laurence Bergreen's "Marco Polo: From Venice to Xanadu": Book Review

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This retells and comments upon the complicated tales told by "Marco Million" eight centuries ago. Bergreen, as an experienced bi...
Friday, July 20, 2012

Tim Severin's "Tracking Marco Polo": Book Review

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This spirited tale tells of the trio who left Oxford, as undergrads, to seek the path of Marco Polo in 1961. Tim Severin asserts that nobo...
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Wednesday, July 18, 2012

Justin Marozzi's "The Way of Herodotus": Book Review

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This starts with a winning appeal for returning to a text academic historians today tend to dismiss for so many tall tales. After a deft s...
Monday, July 16, 2012

Lár an tsamraidh

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Bíonn an aimsir níos mó teasa faoi deireadh ann. Nuair chuaigh Léna agus mise ar ais go dtí An Cathair na hÁingeal ó Naomh Crios, bhí sé n...
Saturday, July 14, 2012

Shulamith Hareven's "Thirst": Book Review

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As biblical novellas narrating the raw core of what became mythic tales of Exodus and the settlement of Canaan, "the Desert trilogy...
Thursday, July 12, 2012

Julian Barnes' "The Sense of an Ending": Book Review

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I heard this via Richard Morant's graceful audiobook narration. It added the "ordinary" touch that deepened both the eruditi...
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Tuesday, July 10, 2012

Tim Wendel's "Summer of '68": Book Review

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This narrative history examines America's "Great Confrontation". Not the murders of Martin Luther King or Robert Kennedy or ...
Sunday, July 8, 2012

Andrew Wilson's "Swingeing London 67(f)": Book Review

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When you listen to "We Love You" by The Rolling Stones, it opens with a jail door slamming...
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John L. Murphy / "Fionnchú"
Los Angeles, California, United States
Medievalist turned humanities professor; unrepentant but not unskeptical Fenian; overconfident accumulator of books & music; overcurious seeker of trivia, quadrivia, esoterica. Born in Los Angeles but should have been born in my parental Ireland. Eclectic music, reading, ideas-- often Celtic and/or medievally oriented. Tá Gaeilge a chuid feín dom faoi láthair, ach nílim cainteoir líofacht fós! Dw i'n dysgu Cymraeg tipyn nefa'.
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