16:57, Sunday 1 Jun., 2008
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Books read May 2008, with date finished:
- Islamic Design: a Genius for Geometry, Daud Sutton (3rd)
- Foucault's Pendulum, Umberto Eco (5th, r.)
- Wild Palms, Bruce Wagner and Julian Allen (7th, r.)
- Patterns, Drusilla Cole (9th)
- Under the Skin, Michael Faber (10th)
- Earth Abides, George R. Stewart (11th)
- Psychogeography, Merlin Coverley (11th)
- The Wild Palms Reader, Roger Trilling and Stuart Swezey (13th, r.)
- Incandescence, Greg Egan (17th)
- From Atoms to Patterns, Lesley Jackson (17th)
- Understanding Material Culture, Ian Woodward (30th)
- Annals of the Former World, John McPhee (31st)
The books on patterns have been inspirational, as was Woodward which has opened up new ways of thinking for me. But I unreservedly recommend Annals of the Former World which is geological in topic, size, and narrative form. Astounding and volumetric.
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