Flat Book Society
Books Published Under Two or More Different Titles
24 Festive Tasks: Door 14 – St. Nicholas’ Day / Sinterklaas, Task 3 St. Nicholas is a man of many names in English alone – Santa Claus, Saint Nick, Father Christmas … although in the English speaking world he only comes once (at Christmas, not also on December 6 – whereas in Germany and the […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Blackout! (And bingos Nos. 12 and 13.)
Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! Witih today’s call, I’ve blacked out my card, in addition to collecting my final bingos (nos. 12 and 13). Somewhat to my surprise, after completing my books for my […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: Tracking Post — Bingo No. 3 and Reading Blackout
* Triple Bingo Happy Dance * Well, that went by much faster than I had anticipated … Many thanks to Moonlight Reader and Obsidian Blue for hosting this game for the fourth year in a row, bigger and better than ever before! I’ll continue tracking my bingos of course — and since we now have […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: The Second Week
A day late (though hopefully not a dollar short), here’s my “second bingo week” summary; and it’s a summary of a much better week than the first one turned out to be. (So, yey!) For one thing this is due to the books, all of which were either outright winners or at least enjoyable on […]
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Bob Berman: Earth-Shattering
Neither as “epic” nor as “profound” as the blurb promises, and definitely higher on the “popular” than on the “science” part of “popular science writing”. Based on his style of writing, I can very well imagine Berman as a personable guide at his local observatory or as a host of popular radio science programs; the […]
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Halloween Bingo 2019: The First Week
So, on the plus side, despite serious RL interventions progress on my card is well under way, with four squares (including the centre / free / raven square) marked “called and read”; three of these in a row — plus reading for the remaining two squares of that row also in progress — and several […]
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Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams: Skeletons: The Frame of Life
Less Than What It Could Have Been OK, so I admit I didn’t check on the authors’ scholarly credentials before picking this up — if I had, I might not have been so disappointed to find that this is not, after all (not even in part) a book dealing with the way in which skeletons […]
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Jan Zalasiewicz & Mark Williams: Skeletons: The Frame of Life – Reading Progress Update: 20 of 320 Pages (approximately)
Page count is approximate because I don’t have the book with me at the moment. Anyway, I made a start and finished the first chapter. A very different tone from the likes of Brusatte, Kean and, in their own way, also Liz Kalaugher and Matin Durrani (the authors of Furry Logic). And a welcome change, […]
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The Flat Book Society: Open for July nominations!
Reblogged from: BrokenTune Hello, With the current Flat Book Society read of Napoleon’s Buttons (by Penny Le Couteur) on the way, I have cleared the list of votes to make way for new new nominations. Please add any titles you’d like the group to vote on as the July group read. And if you haven’t […]
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Active Groups on BookLikes – or, Finding More Blogs to Follow, Part 2
Following up on BrokenTune’s post regarding the “Find New BookLikes Blogs to Follow” group — and while it can’t be emphasized enough that to find more active bloggers you may want to follow, the best method is to actively participate in discussions on blog posts and check out the other participants in those discussions — […]
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Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher: Furry Logic – The Physics of Animal Life
A bit on the fluffy side … … but I’m at the point where I basically celebrate any Flat Book Society group read that actually makes a serious effort to deliver (popular) science content without authorial grandstanding, fashion commentary and similar distractions — and notwithstanding a few silly jokes too many, this book certainly does […]
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Matin Durrani & Liz Kalaugher: Furry Logic: The Physics of Animal Life – Reading Progress Update: 127 of 304 Pages
Almost done with chapter 3 and so far, so fluffy and easily digestible. It reminds me a lot of some of the animal-related science programs on TV that I used to be glued to as a kid (and that I sometimes still enjoy watching) — which isn’t necessarily a bad thing; they did / do […]
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Sam Kean: The Disappearing Spoon
DNF @ Chapter 4 I think it’s fair to say that if I prefer doing office admin chores and listening to a(n albeit truly fascinating) memoir about growing up in and getting out of North Korea to reading this book, that’s a pretty good indication I won’t be getting back to this. Chapter 4 started […]
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2018 Airing of Grievances: Least Favorite Books of the Year
24 Festive Tasks: Door 19 – Festivus, Task 1: It’s the annual airing of grievances! Time to list the top 5 books that disappointed you the most this year and let us know why! I’ve been blessed with a pretty amazing reading year in which disappointments were few and far between — so it […]
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Stephen Brusatte: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Yet another overhyped book Reading Status Updates 8% Flat Book Society November read, and also my read for the New Year’s Eve square in the 24 Festive Tasks game. So far, it’s sounding good — at least you can tell the author is a scientist writing about the subject matter he’s studied. This makes […]
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PSA: Upcoming Group Reads in November and December
Beginning November 1 (today): Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs — Flat Book Society November group read. This one also covers the “book” task requirements of the New Year’s Eve square in the 24 Festive Tasks game (beginning and ending of a species, and if the comet gets any page space, also […]
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… oh, look, illustration for the Flat Book Society November group read …
Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1799078/oh-look-illustration-for-the-flat-book-society-november-group-read The Flat Book Society Project Page Reviews and Blog Posts
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Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon
Epidemics are horrible. Well, duh … In substance, I don’t really have a whole lot to add to my one ill-humored status update on this book. This is the book-form equivalent of a cross-breed between tabloid journalism and a series of superficial, but opinionated and self-centered blog posts: short on bonafide science, history, and […]
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Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon – Reading Progress Update: 107 of 336 Pages
This reads like a series of blog posts by an overconfident twentysomething with an only superficial grasp of both history and medicine / science, who won’t, however, let her lack of in-depth knowledge and research keep her from jumping to unsupported conclusions by the dozen. (All of which being said with profound apologies to […]
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Jennifer Wright: Get Well Soon – Reading Progress Update: 1 of 336 Pages
Also starting this one — which in addition to it being the Flat Book Society’s September group read, Moonlight also OK’d for the Doomsday bingo square (and by extension of course, also the Free / Center / Raven square). Original post: ThemisAthena.booklikes.com/post/1787690/reading-progress-update-i-ve-read-1-out-of-336-pages Final Review and Other Reading Progress Update: 107 of 336 Pages […]
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