Reflective Affair of Abelard and Heloise
Mar. 29th, 2009 12:04 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
maribouThe Reflective Practitioner: How Professionals Think In Action, by Donald A. Schön
Read a quote from this in an article by someone else. Thought, "hm, that quote was the best thing in the article," borrowed book. Was surprised by how lucid and straightforward it is. Some of the suggestions in here have already become part of general practice at this point, but otherwise it is surprisingly NOT dated for a book originally published in 1982.
(62/275)
The Letters of Abelard and Heloïse, translated and edited by Betty Radice
Read this because I've always been curious about them. Much easier read than I thought it would be, although I did get bogged down in the "Letters of Direction" which were at times EXTREMELY repetitive. Otherwise quite brisk-moving and compelling prose, as heavily-theologizing medieval writings go. The inclusion of a couple of letters by a contemporary, Peter the Venerable, was interesting because his writings were so much more flowery and hard to get through than A & H's were.
(63/275)
An Affair of Sorcerers, by George Chesbro
Very fun 70s pulp detective novel series, not as clunky as the first two and I'm starting to have hope that when I get to the ones I HAVE read before (as a thirteen-ish-year-old) they might actually be as awesome as I am remembering. On the other hand, I suspect my 13yo self was largely oblivious to the things (typical 70s pulp things, eg EVERY SINGLE ADULT FEMALE CHARACTER has to be sexy, and noted as such) that kind of irritate me as an adult reader. Still, this series has many very awesome aspects that keep getting awesomer as the through-lines develop from one book to the next.
(64/275)
Read a quote from this in an article by someone else. Thought, "hm, that quote was the best thing in the article," borrowed book. Was surprised by how lucid and straightforward it is. Some of the suggestions in here have already become part of general practice at this point, but otherwise it is surprisingly NOT dated for a book originally published in 1982.
(62/275)
The Letters of Abelard and Heloïse, translated and edited by Betty Radice
Read this because I've always been curious about them. Much easier read than I thought it would be, although I did get bogged down in the "Letters of Direction" which were at times EXTREMELY repetitive. Otherwise quite brisk-moving and compelling prose, as heavily-theologizing medieval writings go. The inclusion of a couple of letters by a contemporary, Peter the Venerable, was interesting because his writings were so much more flowery and hard to get through than A & H's were.
(63/275)
An Affair of Sorcerers, by George Chesbro
Very fun 70s pulp detective novel series, not as clunky as the first two and I'm starting to have hope that when I get to the ones I HAVE read before (as a thirteen-ish-year-old) they might actually be as awesome as I am remembering. On the other hand, I suspect my 13yo self was largely oblivious to the things (typical 70s pulp things, eg EVERY SINGLE ADULT FEMALE CHARACTER has to be sexy, and noted as such) that kind of irritate me as an adult reader. Still, this series has many very awesome aspects that keep getting awesomer as the through-lines develop from one book to the next.
(64/275)
