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Some stuff — Round Up

Money by Jacob Goldstein

Sour Sweet by Timothy Mo

Time and Free Will by Henri Bergson

Mind of my Mind by Octavia Butler

The Utopia of Rules by David Graeber

Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny

Assembly by Natasha Brown

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

People Love Dead Jews by Dara Horn

A Fanatic Heart by Ron Rosenbaum

How Civil Wars Start by Barbara Walter

My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood

March 28, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Time and Free Will – 5/5 I am not a philosopher or even particularly well-read in philosophy, so this review is more from the perspective of someone with a literature background, and who is used to using philosophy to serve the aims of literature and philology. This book is particularly suited to the task because through early breakthroughs (or perhaps just ideologies) in psychology — specifically he references William James (and it’s possible he mentions Freud, but I don’t recall it specifically) — to better […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:130 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Barbara Walter, Dara Horn, David Baddiel, David Graeber, Henri Bergson, Jacob Goldstein, Margaret Atwood, Natasha Brown, octavia butler, roger zelazny, Ron Rosenbaum, Timothy Mo ·
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It’s Not About Arithmetic

Jews Don't Count by David Baddiel

February 22, 2021 by jeverett15 1 Comment

David Baddiel is a comedian from the UK who I’ve become familiar with through my love of panel shows. He is also in his own words one of the UK’s most famous Jews, because he makes his Jewishness part of his public identity in a way he believes many other British Jews are uncomfortable doing. The central premise of the book is that anti-Semitism isn’t taken as seriously as other forms of racism and discrimination, and in Baddiel’s opinion, it should be. A large part […]

Filed Under: Non-Fiction Tagged With: David Baddiel

jeverett15's CBR13 Review No:12 · Genres: Non-Fiction · Tags: David Baddiel ·
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