100 untimed books: dinosaurs

58. dinosaurs
58. dinosaurs

100 untimed books challenge: the challenge post

In our house Carl Sagan is a great favourite. We particularly enjoy his demolition of the ‘life on Venus’ theory, and the appearance of any logical fallacy is greeted with ‘Conclusion: dinosaurs!’

Never mind Venus, we don’t seem to have any dinosaurs in the house, but we did have some ammonites.

100 untimed books: another country

51. another country
51. another country

I’ve only recently discovered Patrick Leigh Fermor, and won’t say much about him now because I’ve got a longer post in mind. But this book is about other countries, and about the other country that is the past – Europe of the thirties as seen on foot, and remembered from the other side of the Second World War.

The background represents some of my own wanderings.

100 untimed books