September 20, 2010

Dandelion Wine – by: Ray Bradbury (1957, 1976)

The book „Using Murder” (ibid.) refers to this Bradbury classic as an illustration of how in the 1950's and '60's, „There was a sense that the multiple killer was a phenomenon that had definitely been relegated to the American past,” (p. 38-39). So I ordered the book to see for myself how this „sense” is portray by one of the great poets of our time.

Magic and Mystery in Tibet - by: Alexandra David-Neel (1932, 2014)

This is one of those rare books that exposes another culture in a way that really opens it up an lets the reader glimpse for themselves what...