![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() A Place for Everything is the first-ever history of a. Alphabetical order allows us to sort, to file and to find the information we have, and to locate the information we need. Discover A Place For Everything: The Curious History of Alphabetical Order by Judith Flanders and millions of other books available at Barnes & Noble. From a New York Times-bestselling historian comes the story of how the alphabet ordered our world. This magical system of organization not only guides us to the correct bus route or train schedule or the jar of coriander seeds between the cinnamon and the cumin in the supermarket, but it also, in the library or the bookshop, gives us the ability to sift through centuries of thought and writing, of knowledge and literature. From the school register to the telephone book, from dictionaries and encyclopaedias to the library shelves, our lives are ordered from A to Z. ![]() And yet the order of the alphabet, that simple knowledge that we take for granted, plays far more of a role in our lives than we usually consider. A Place for Everything: the Curious History of Alphabetical Order Judith Flanders (A66/2021) : r/Alphanumerics 271 subscribers in the Alphanumerics community. Summary: Few of us think much of the alphabet and its familiar sing-song order once we've learned it as children. ![]()
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7/5/2023 0 Comments The surgeon of crowthorne![]() ![]() Although he pursued many different interests, his overriding passion was for linguistics and phonetics and the origins of words. He was a voracious reader who accumulated knowledge purely for the sake of learning. His lack of further formal education didn’t hold him back too much, as he loved learning. Murray was born into a working-class family in Scotland and left school at fourteen. The majority of The Surgeon of Crowthorne is concerned with the backgrounds, motivations and personalities of Murray and Minor, and of the relationship between them. Unfortunately this is also the smallest part of the book, so while we get a feel for the awe-inspiring work it was, we only get a brief taste of the more than seventy years it took to create the first edition. So one very important thing you get from this book is a sense of just what an incredible achievement it was to create the OED. Minor.īefore I started reading this book, I’d never truly considered just how much work went into compiling a dictionary. ![]() This book is partly a history of the writing/compiling/creation of the Oxford English Dictionary (OED) and partly a biography of two of the men intimately connected with its creation, the main editor of the OED, Professor James Murray, and a major contributor, Dr W. ![]() 7/5/2023 0 Comments The people you meet in heaven![]() ![]() Eddie walks with a limp- a bullet wound to the knee caused during the war, and is very lonely in his old age, having outlived all family and friends. For his first fiction novel (tuesdays with Morrie and other books before it were all non-fiction), Albom chooses his uncle Eddie as the protagonist-his favorite uncle, who taught Albom to play the keyboard, who did everything he could do avoid working at Ruby Pier, but still ended up as the Head of Maintenance at the Ruby Pier (an oceanside amusement pier). So I was pleasanty surprised when I got to read about a dear old man suffering from ALS, and his talks with the author instead, which were the exact opposite of boring!Įddie Maintenance. My tryst with Mitch Albom began when I borrowed ‘ tuesdays with Morrie‘ from a friend, and on getting an idea of what the book was about, let’s say I wasn’t so enthusiastic to start it, because I find philosophy talk boring. Simple and refreshing take on life and death Bookxpert Rating : 3.8/5 Genre : Fictionīuy ‘the five people you meet in Heaven’ now ( hardcover)īuy ‘the five people you meet in Heaven’ now ( Kindle edition) ![]() ![]() ![]() The story is an energetic and engaging read for both adult readers and younger fans, it’s the kind of story that is equal parts familiar and fresh. ![]() Strange Academy #1 is the comic book we’ve been needing from Marvel. Skottie Young and Humberto Ramos bring together the greatest magical powered teachers, under the guidance of the Sorcerer Supreme and hand them a freshman class filled with diverse, decidedly unique magical adepts who are brimming with both talent and personality. Strange Academy #1 launched March 4th and the Marvel comic universe all at once became a much stranger and more interesting place. ![]() Welcome Strange Academy! Strange Academy #1 Perfect for New Readers. ![]() 7/4/2023 0 Comments The amber spyglass book review![]() The end came so quickly, and I was not prepared for it in the slightest. The Amber Spyglass reveals that story, bringing Phillip Pullman’s His Dark Materials to an astonishing conclusion. And Lord Asriel, with troops of shining angels, fights his mighty rebellion, a battle of strange allies–and shocking sacrifice.Īs war rages and Dust drains from the sky, the fate of the living–and the dead–finally comes to depend on two children and the simple truth of one simple story. Mary Malone builds a magnificent amber spyglass. With help from the armored bear Iorek Byrnison and two tiny Gallivespian spies, they must journey to a gray-lit world where no living soul has ever gone. ![]() Lyra and Will, the two ordinary children whose extraordinary adventures began in The Golden Compass and in The Subtle Knife, are in unspeakable danger. ![]() The Amber Spyglass (His Dark Materials #3) ![]() ![]() ![]() The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes.Marlborough, His Life & Times, Volumes 1-6 by Winston Churchill.Son Of The Morning Star: Custer and the Little Bighorn by Evan S.Pax Britannica: A Three Volume Set (Heaven’s Command, Pax Britannica, and Farewell the Trumpets) by James Morris.The American Practical Navigator: An Epitome of Navigation by Nathaniel Bowditch.Leviathan: Or the Matter, Forme, and Power of a Commonwealth Ecclesiasticall and Civil by Thomas Hobbes.Newton’s Principia for the Common Reader by S.1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C.The Structures of Everyday Life: Civilization & Capitalism, 15th-18th Century, Volumes 1-3 by Fernand Braudel.The Iliad by Homer translated by Robert Fagles. ![]()
7/4/2023 0 Comments My Dark Knight by K.A. Merikan![]() ![]() Always hopelessly attracted to violent brutes, his favorite is a long dead serial killer. ![]() No matter how much Knight hates Elliot’s alter ego, under the makeup and theatrics hides a fragile young guy with a passion for history, and Knight can’t help but catch Elliot every time he falls.Įlliot has bad taste in men. Skinny, messed up, and a bucket of trouble as thick as tar, everything Elliot does seems to be a wordless death wish. He’s also never met anyone who needed him more. Knight has never seen a more pathetic creature than Elliot. But when Knight meets Elliot, the man behind The Count, he no longer knows what to do with him. An opportunity to crush him comes when the audacious clown shows up at the Kings of Hell MC clubhouse to film for his YouTube channel. All he's interested in is bringing down The Count, an Internet personality who is tarnishing his family name. Newly single, Knight is done with relationships. ![]() ![]() ![]() We have a family tradition of reading this book at Christmas, and even though my son is eighteen now, he still makes sure it's part of our stack of Christmas books ("A Pussycat's Christmas", by Margaret Wise Brown is another-I think I'll go review that one, too, with the same recommendation). I actually start choking up when Mowser decides she needs to go with Tom, and by the time they come back into the harbor I'm pausing quite frequently to collect myself and dab my eyes. Other reviewers have said it all, and I agree, from the weeping to the wonder. Buy it now, while you can, because even really great books go out of print (I still regret lending my copy of "Need A House? Call Ms Mouse", which I never got back and now goes for $70 used). Don't get it from the library, or borrow it from a friend. ![]() I say this to lend weight to my imperative-buy this book. I don't have the shelf space to accommodate new ones, so an acquisition usually means getting rid of something. I am very selective these days, when it comes to buying books. ![]() ![]() ![]() Here's his post from back on his website: ![]() It's framed as a kind of parallel timeline, and is revealed to the main character, now an old man, on his deathbed by his uncle the same way he was told he was introduced to being a traveler in the first book. ![]() The final chapter implies that he used his angel powers to "reboot" the timeline and allow each Traveler to go live out that alt-life without all of the conflict and supernatural stuff that happened in the series. And one laments, "wow, it's kind of amazing we took on these lives to grow and become who we needed to be to win, but part of me still is the normal person from before all this nonsense happened - I wish I could've seen what that life led to." And the head Traveler kind of goes hmmmm. The final book ends with our heroes (basically warrior angels that took on corporeal form) victorious. If you're talking about what I think you are, it wasn't that people were pissed about the ending, it's that they didn't understand it. ![]() ![]() This is a slow, methodical opening to the series. Despite the three months I spent reading it, I never once didn’t feel immersed or disconnected from the characters. Main question to answer first, I did highly enjoy it and do intend to carry on with the series. What was, what may be, and what is, may yet fall under the Shadow. In this Age of myth and legend, the Wheel of Time turns. An ancient evil is stirring, and its servants are scouring the land for the Dragon Reborn – the prophesised hero who can deliver the world from darkness. When their village is attacked by terrifying creatures, Rand al’Thor and his friends are forced to flee for their lives. This is a very beloved, classic series for many reasons and while I agree with some of them, I also am critical of others. This will function as mostly a review, as is my style, but I also kind of want to dissect where I had impressions right and where I had them wrong as well. October 2021 though, I finally started this tome. One of my friends did a read along in 2020, I failed to even start the book fully to keep up. I picked it up after a boozy brunch with a pal, never got to it. I actually had a copy of this as far back as 2018. I read The Eye of the World and started The Wheel of Time series. ![]() So I have finally done what I thought would both never happen and was impossible to do if it did. Life and beauty swirl in the midst of death.’ ![]() |