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Dec. 7th, 2005 04:06 pmThe Best American Science and Nature Writing 2005, edited by Jonathan Weiner and Tim Folger
The good news about this book is that the essays were almost universally excellent reads. The bad news is that it might more accurately have been titled The Best American Psychology, Medical, and Science-Related Current Events Writing 2005. There were less than half a dozen essays in here that I thought really qualified as basic science or natural history. Even the environmental stuff was more party-politics than I'm used to. However, even the most polemical of essays were quite solid - just not what I was expecting from something I normally turn to for an annual dose of awe (and the sense that I am in some vague way keeping up).
(236/200)
C. S. Lewis: A Biography, by A. N. Wilson
I read this because I either read in a review of The Narnian that this was a less hagiographic, better written take on Lewis' life, or else someone told me that it was after I told them I was going to read The Narnian. Whichever, I'm glad to have read this book, not least because Wilson is a master of the school of writing that manages to subtly convey amusement, affection, and respect - all in the same well-turned phrase. Will be attempting others of his books in the next year or two.
(237/200)
The good news about this book is that the essays were almost universally excellent reads. The bad news is that it might more accurately have been titled The Best American Psychology, Medical, and Science-Related Current Events Writing 2005. There were less than half a dozen essays in here that I thought really qualified as basic science or natural history. Even the environmental stuff was more party-politics than I'm used to. However, even the most polemical of essays were quite solid - just not what I was expecting from something I normally turn to for an annual dose of awe (and the sense that I am in some vague way keeping up).
(236/200)
C. S. Lewis: A Biography, by A. N. Wilson
I read this because I either read in a review of The Narnian that this was a less hagiographic, better written take on Lewis' life, or else someone told me that it was after I told them I was going to read The Narnian. Whichever, I'm glad to have read this book, not least because Wilson is a master of the school of writing that manages to subtly convey amusement, affection, and respect - all in the same well-turned phrase. Will be attempting others of his books in the next year or two.
(237/200)
