I really wanted to love this book because I am a huge Mary Beard fan and I love her enthusiastic, passionate and fascinating documentaries about the Romans. As a novice to this topic, I was really craving a book that would educate me and also sustain my interest.
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The far-flung pillars of imagination
Share a story about the furthest you’ve ever traveled from home. When I was in my 20’s I became very ill and almost died. Luckily for me I overcame it. However, it involved a step-change in everything I held dear. Suddenly freedom to experience the world because I survived became the focus. So I traveledContinue reading “The far-flung pillars of imagination”
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #135
Older people give advice to people in their 20’s, how often you should clean, a gold snake bracelet from Pompeii, medieval dog names of fondness, alien blobs and tiny houses. It’s edition 135 of #Interesting Things by Content Catnip
Book Review: She Rises by Kate Worsley
She Rises is an erotic, sea-faring adventure by debut novelist Kate Worsley. Under the tutelage of mentor and maven of the historical novel Sarah Waters, Kate Worsley has created a beautifully sculpted jewel of a novel set in an Essex fishing village in 1740.
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #134
Rich people foods that taste bad, letters to a multispecies kin, people vultures, a 33 year old fruit bat, ice-skating, the world’s most horny countries and other esoteric topics, it’s edition #134 #ContentCatnip #Interesting
Travel: The loneliest buildings in the world
I love secluded and lonely places where there’s nobody around for miles. That’s why the Highlands and Islands hold such appeal to me and so here’s a couple of lonely places may make you feel in turns melancholy or yearning for a place where nobody can disturb you.
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #133
This week, weird #food combos, a timeline of a #posthuman galaxy, wolpertingers, purple jellyfish and their friends, how to have better arguments, and other esoterica #art #culture #connection
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #132
This week see sleeping anime #cats in rice paddies, a mystical and nice quote from #YokoOno, the difference between a living and dead #idea, how snails hitchhiked from a Pacific Islands to the Americas and more, it’s edition 132 of interesting things by #ContentCatnip
10 Interesting Things I Found on the Internet #131
This week, a peaceful quote from Buddhist monk Joan Halifax, a yummy coconut rice recipe, a lesson in enchantment from René Magritte, an encouraging possum and more, it’s edition #131 of Interesting Things! Welcome friends…
Travel: A floaty late summer serenade in Munich 2008
Walking through a majestic and manicured gardens in Munich I heard a delicate and heartfelt serenade on the violin from a faraway stone rotunda. I walked there and took a seat among two people who appeared in a stupor of enjoyment. They were both sitting in the late afternoon sun, lulled into a dream by theContinue reading “Travel: A floaty late summer serenade in Munich 2008”
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