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Name: Amanda Reichert
Location: United States

I am currently working on my Master's Thesis, but I procrastinate by reading all the books I can! In the meantime, I have a good job with fun people.

Tuesday, March 31, 2009

Dinosaur Plots

Dinosaur Plots
By Leonard Kristalka
0380709988 284p

Out of date, since it was written so long ago, so I won't take off for that! I didn't like how he dismissed any belief other than his. The most glaring, for me, was Creationism. There were other smaller ones. He just didn't seem very open to accepting other ideas. Funny guy, though, writing was amusing for the most part.
(And please spare me, don't tell me I'm closed-minded for favoring Creationism, I read this and many other pro-Evolution books and am not convinced.)
7/10

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Monday, March 30, 2009

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim

Art Lover: A Biography of Peggy Guggenheim
By Anton Gill
006095681X 437p

Good book at tracking where she was and what she bought, doesn't touch overly much on why she did what she did. Her relationship with her children is troubling, but it seems like there must have been some good there for them to still want to be with her. All we read is bad, I think there must be more to it. Definitely interesting on an art historical side, to hear about Ernst and Pollock and Klee and others as secondary characters to someone else for a change!
8/10

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