Books
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At home with books : How book lovers live and care for their libraries, Estelle Ellis (ISBN 978-0500016848, Gardners Books)
What a treasure this book is ! I read it years ago when it was first published and now recently again as I came across it when browsing through the shelves of our library. If you have a love for books and sometimes hesitate to buy a new one because you are running out of…
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Mythos. The Greek myths retold, Stephen Fry (ISBN 978-1 405 934138, Penguin)
Started reading this book during the summer holidays after a tip from friends. When i was at school classical studies were out of vogue and my knowledge of Greek history and mythology is ‘somewhat poor’. So for me this book was definitely educational. In my (probably distorted) memory books about myths were always written in…
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Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets, J.K. Rowling (ISBN 978-1408855669, Bloomsbury)
The second Harry Potter book, first published in 1998 in the UK. A little darker than the first one but still quite light in tone. Ginny Weasley, Ron’s younger sister goes to Hogwarts for her first year and gets a central role in this story. Some first romantic feelings between Harry and Jenny emerge but…
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Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone, J.K. Rowling (ISBN 978-1408855898, Bloomsbury)
The first Harry Potter book, published in 1997. In 1999 the first 2 books were translated in Dutch. At that time more than 500000 had already been sold in the English speaking world of the first 2 books and film rights had been bought by Warner Bros. It was quite the hype in the UK…
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Factfulness, Hans Rosling (ISBN 978-1473637498, Hodder & Stoughton)
This book was given to me by an uncle somewhere middle of 2019. As I have no shortage of books in the ‘want to read’ category I put in on the stack and left it there for some time. Then came some science oriented discussions about facts with our kids related to their homework assignments.…
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The Chimp and the River: How AIDS Emerged from an African Forest, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393350845, W. W. Norton)
Another book by David Quammen that is excerpted and adapted from his book Spillover. If you already read Spillover then this book might not bring much new. I read Spillover in 2015 in unsuspecting times and then this basically long chapter from that book on AIDS in the summer of 2020 in the middle of…
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Ebola: The Natural and Human History of a Deadly Virus, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393351552, W. W. Norton)
Elsewhere on this blog I wrote about Spillover by David Quammen. That book covers a number of so called zoonoses, diseases that can be transmitted from non-human animals to humans. Ebola is one example discussed in Spillover. When the book came out late 2012 it was in the middle of a series of Ebola outbreaks.…
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Spillover, David Quammen (ISBN 978-0393066807, W.W. Norton & Company)
This book came out in October 2012 and I read it myself in June 2015. The subject of the book is zoonoses, diseases that are transmissible from animals to humans. The book explores recent new diseases that appeared and outbreaks of these diseases. Among the diseases covered in the book are AIDS, ebola and sars.…
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Personal Web Page Developments
Near the end of the previous millennium my internet provider brought ADSL connections to the market and I subscribed to the service. No more dial in connections with a modem over the phone line. With the service came an email address with a couple of aliases and the possibility to host your own personal homepage.…
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Tot aan de Ijzer
Deze week Tot aan de Ijzer uitgelezen. Niet het boek van Max Deauville maar reeks van De Standaard uit 2014. Toen verscheen van 28 juli tot eind van het jaar een reeks die dag na dag Wereldoorlog 1 volgt van het begin van de oorlog tot aan de Ijzer op het moment dat de vlakte…
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