Student at Arts University Bournemouth
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3% complete! Nathan John Cooper has read 2 of 52 books.
Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it …
Aquatic mammals only experience NREM sleep as opposed to REM - though Walker thinks that they probably do experience a form of REM that we just haven't been able to pick-up yet.
Joe, Beth and Frannie take their cousin Rick on an adventure he'll never forget. Find out how they escape from …
How to be really very nice indeed, just like the English! Learn the ins and outs of British behaviour, how …
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece …
Nan Shepard has this way of writing that is just so naturally poetic and unbelievably vivid. With each word, you can feel the intellect and passion behind Shepard's personality. Although this may be rather controversial (and could be for a number of factors), I think I still prefer Robert MacFarlane's literary abilities. Which, might I add, is not a critique of Shepard but is a testament to MacFarlane. There is just something about the cold, harsh terrain of Scotland that I often find somewhat less captivating than the bucolic, freshness of the South. Overall, both authors are beautifully talented and never fail to affect onto me a newfound appreciation for nature.
Ted Chiang's first published story, "Tower of Babylon," won the Nebula Award in 1990. Subsequent stories have won the Asimov's …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Neuroscientist and sleep expert Matthew Walker provides a revolutionary exploration of sleep, examining how it affects every aspect of our …
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing Nan Shepherd …
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece …
'Dear Nan,
You don't need me to tell you how I enjoyed your book...'
Begins his astute reply,
'This is beautifully done. With restraint, the fine precision of the artist or scientist or scholar. With an exactitude that is never pedantic but always tribute, so love comes through and wisdom. You deal with facts and you build with proposition. Methodically and calmly for light and a state of being are facts in your world.
— Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd, Robert Macfarlane, Jeanette Winterson, and 1 other
Letter from Gunn after Nan Shepard requested feedback on a draft of Living Mountain
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece …
Some brilliant words from this book: - ardent - exactitude - ocular - oracular - blandishment - prose - presbyterianism - alterity - animist - parochial - adjectival - insularity
'The finest book ever written on nature and landscape in Britain' Guardian In this masterpiece of nature writing Nan Shepherd …
Paulo Coelho's masterpiece tells the mystical story of Santiago, an Andalusian shepherd boy who yearns …
There's just something about this story that feels so timeless, classical, and eternal. Everything is so allegorical, metaphorical, symbolic, and polysemic and I can't help but feel this is the kind-of book that should be re-visited serveral times throughout one's life. The only thing that brings it down somewhat, for me, is the occasionally confusing writing style. I'm sure this is most likely my fault and that I wasn't paying enough attention but there was a few times where the author jumped into a past story with little indication. The result of this was an overflow of confusion as to where the characters were and what they were doing.
In the brutal world of Shade's Children, your 14th birthday is your last. Malevolent Overlords rule the earth, directing hideous, …
