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Books 2010: turning wheels, and other things.
Books 2010: 130-132
130. Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm.
Apart from both Egwene and Verin having a pretty damn excellent Crowning Moment of Awesome (tm) and there being a sense that - finally, finally - the Last Battle might come... eh. Too much backstory, at this point. I have forgotten most of what I was supposed to remember was important.
Sirs Not Appearing in this book: Elayne, Mat (mostly), Perrin (mostly), Faile (mostly) and Aviendha (who has nearly nothing to do on screen, and thus did not make much impression). The Forsaken are also Sirs Not Appearing, really, apart from Semirhage being batshit, one Graendal plotting scene, and one Moridin and Rand Meet In A Dream scene.
Elaida: good riddance, but still Not Dead Yet. Fain: fortunately Sir Not Appearing. (Is he dead? I've forgotten.)
131. Geoffrey Trease, Cue for Treason.
Historical YA from college library, picked up on mad whim. Entertaining.
nonfiction
132. James Longrigg, Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. Routledge, London and New York, 1993.
Being an overview of developments in medicine and connected philosophy from the early period to Hellenistic Alexandria, ending with Erasistratus. As an overview, it is solidly informative, but Longrigg is very much invested in Greek medicine and philosophy as rational processes, and does not define rational nearly well enough for me to agree with him.
Persons interested in these matters may find it here on Google Books.
130. Robert Jordan & Brandon Sanderson, The Gathering Storm.
Apart from both Egwene and Verin having a pretty damn excellent Crowning Moment of Awesome (tm) and there being a sense that - finally, finally - the Last Battle might come... eh. Too much backstory, at this point. I have forgotten most of what I was supposed to remember was important.
Sirs Not Appearing in this book: Elayne, Mat (mostly), Perrin (mostly), Faile (mostly) and Aviendha (who has nearly nothing to do on screen, and thus did not make much impression). The Forsaken are also Sirs Not Appearing, really, apart from Semirhage being batshit, one Graendal plotting scene, and one Moridin and Rand Meet In A Dream scene.
Elaida: good riddance, but still Not Dead Yet. Fain: fortunately Sir Not Appearing. (Is he dead? I've forgotten.)
131. Geoffrey Trease, Cue for Treason.
Historical YA from college library, picked up on mad whim. Entertaining.
nonfiction
132. James Longrigg, Greek Rational Medicine: Philosophy and Medicine from Alcmaeon to the Alexandrians. Routledge, London and New York, 1993.
Being an overview of developments in medicine and connected philosophy from the early period to Hellenistic Alexandria, ending with Erasistratus. As an overview, it is solidly informative, but Longrigg is very much invested in Greek medicine and philosophy as rational processes, and does not define rational nearly well enough for me to agree with him.
Persons interested in these matters may find it here on Google Books.