Richard Smith Book Recommendations & Book Mentions

Richard Smith

"When you get down to itnthere’s not much difference between politics and sex; it’s all about power." Hilary Mantel in A Place of Greater Safety

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Iris Murdoch’s 19th novel "The Sea, the Sea" won the Booker prize in 1978, but it surprises me that it could win such a prize: to me it’s a novel out of control. https://t.co/OCz5w6uMig

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Alexandre Dumas describes well in “The Count of Monte Cristo” the treasure that a great teacher can give you. I dedicate this quotation to the people who have taught me–and may I continue to learn. https://t.co/Mfpw7iv1jM

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In Anthony Doerr’s marvellous book “Cloud Cuckoo Land” a young boy in America tells his classmates how the world will end. https://t.co/8l1K3SBgtx

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@DrHenryMarsh You might get some comfort from reading "Islands of Abandonment: Life in the Post-Human Landscape" by Cal Flyn. https://t.co/Bv5G9u16DD

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The revelation comes at 6.37 am on Monday 19 April 2021. I’m reading The Overstory by Richard Powers, a novel that makes clear that trees are wiser, more loving, and more connected than people, reveals to me that the linden tree is called lime in English. https://richardswsmith.wordpress.com/2021/04/24/my-revelation-about-the-linden-tree/

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Like most white, middle class, middle aged liberals I like to think of myself as not at all racist. But after reading Reni Eddo-Lodge’s Why I’m No Longer Talking to White People About Race I’ve realised I need to think more deeply. https://t.co/qFJbGTXsKZ

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Abraham Verghese’s novel Cutting for Stone, which has sold over a million copies, is a celebration of medicine, a 500-page love letter. https://t.co/pNxUFQS3DS

Richard Smith

Alexandre Dumas describes well in “The Count of Monte Cristo” the treasure that a great teacher can give you. I dedicate this quotation to the people who have taught me–and may I continue to learn. https://t.co/Mfpw7iv1jM

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A brief guide to Ivan Illich’s “Limits to Medicine,” perhaps the most important medical book of the past 75 years https://t.co/ZtP3zluDSY