As a fan of Temples of Convenience, Chambers of Delight, I couldn’t help but be intrigued when Bronwyn recommended this book to me, as it is nothing less than a history of bathing in the Western world, from Roman times to the modern era. Refreshingly, it also has some scathing commentary on the North American …
Daily Archives: 7 March, 2008
Books Fifty-Four and Fifty-Five: The White Lioness and One Step Behind
More Swedish detective novels! I’m on a jag. These two happened to be on the new and noteworthy shelf at the library, and they looked interesting, so I grabbed them. The White Lioness Oddly enough, the book is about the end of apartheid in South Africa, which was amusing to me because I’d just been working on …
Musty Armadillos
The Times disagrees with my assessment that arguing is bad for the Democrats. Cruelty can change the way we think about the source of our food. Modern medicine can certainly be awesome, but it has disadvantages, especially when it comes to your medical record. Americans aren’t the only ones who are ashamed of the position …