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  • Cornersteady
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    edited December 2020 #512

    Another Christmas present and a few lines really resonated with me:

    All humans are stupid when it comes to learning formal mathematics. This is the process of taking what evolution has given us and extending our skills beyond what is reasonable. We were not born with any kind of ability to intuitively understand fractions, negative numbers or the many other strange concepts developed by mathematics, but over time your brain can slowly learn how to deal with them.

    I wish I had realised that when I first started teaching!

    Anyway highly recommended and a good read whatever your mathematical ability is.

     

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #513

    I actually like Maths, except when some plonker borrows library books before me and writes an "s" after Math when the story is set in America yell but that's beside the point and I'm glad to get it off my chest, so I'll keep an eye out for this.smile Thanks CS.

  • Cornersteady
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    edited December 2020 #514

    A pleasure, we once had a group of US maths teachers visiting, they asked students if they liked math? In Class after class they were met with blank puzzling looks.

    They finally worked it out and one of them said I guess your students don't use the word math, I said as it was a catholic school that to them math is a service they do in church.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited December 2020 #515

    🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

  • brue
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    edited December 2020 #516

    I'm used to hearing "math" with so many Canadians in the family but one that I always roll around on my tongue is "aluminum." That books looks good Corners. I like the cover design too! smile

  • moulesy
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    edited December 2020 #517

    Just spotted this book on Kindle Daily Deal and snapped it up! smile

  • Wherenext
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    edited December 2020 #518

    Cheers Moulesy.smile

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited December 2020 #519

    Missed it, da#n.yell

    Do any of you mathematicians know of a good book on the History of Maths? There must be number of them out there but not sure which is the easiest to understand.

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2021 #520

    Ian Rankin's 23rd Rebus book 'A Song For The Dark Times' is in Amazon's Today's Deals for 99p today - Kindle edition.

    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Song-Dark-Times-Must-Read-Thriller-ebook/dp/B086SNF147?ref_=Oct_DLandingS_D_fa559496_60&smid=A1G3UP32AZJ14F

     

  • Goldie146
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    edited January 2021 #521

    Thank you! I have a signed hardback (which is still on my stack of books to read), but this will be so much easier to pick up and hold. And even take away on holiday . . . . . . . . . 

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2021 #522

    ..........one day.

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #523

    There's a few on here that seem to enjoy Caimh McDonnell and his The Quiet Man now on sale for £0.99. One of his Bunny McGarry books.

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #524

    Also just found Book 3 of Genieve Cogmans Invisible Library series, The Mortal Word. This for Mrs WN who reads her. Again £0.99

  • moulesy
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    edited January 2021 #525

    I had a phone call from our library today to say they've got Michael Connelly's latest Micky Haller book "The Law of Innocence" in store for me. smile

    Even better, I'm number 1 on the list for the latest Rebus, having missed it on Kindle the other day. 👍

  • nelliethehooker
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    edited January 2021 #526

    Cheers, WN, I missed that! Downloaded now. Just need Last Orders, and I Have Sinned.

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #527

    Better not tell Mrs Nellie then.😂

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #528

    It looks like you are getting all of your luck in one day M.smile

  • moulesy
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    edited January 2021 #529

    If anyone is looking for something different by a new author I can really recommend "To The Lions" by Holly Watt. It tells the story of an investigative journalist researching killings at a refugee camp in Libya. Sounds a bit grim and, indeed, it is a disturbing topic - the book is a slow burner to start with but suddenly takes off and I couldn't put it down. smile

  • Whittakerr
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    edited January 2021 #530

    Deleted User. Wrong thread

     

  • Whittakerr
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    edited January 2021 #531

    I was given a file last year which contained 4000 kindle books.smile Trouble is i don't have a kindle!cry

  • moulesy
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    edited January 2021 #532

    If you have a tablet you can download the kindle app and use that,  W. Problem solved! 👍

  • brue
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    edited January 2021 #533

    The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman is going out on Radio 4 this week, lunchtime with repeat in evening. Radio 4 LINK

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #534

    I keep dropping into Humble Pi  the book recommended by Cornersteady every time I finish a book of fiction and before starting a new one. It's acting like a Sorbet, rather than a pudding, and refreshes me mentally.

    Mind you I haven't a "Scubby" what he's talking about.laughing

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #535

    Picked up "The Law of Innocence" from the library today. Problem is I've just started a new book by Graham Hurley and it seems promising so Mickey Haller will have to wait. I checked the other day and they had me down at 29 in the queue just a week ago so a bit of a surprise.

  • redface
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    edited January 2021 #536

    Just finished 'The Girl On The Train'. I wonder how much the newspapers were paid by the publisher to write the blurb?

    What an absolutely rubbish story line -  hopefully I will never be persuade to read a 'best seller' again.  Particularly if the press ( New York Times) give it a rave review.

    Does anyone else suffer from misleading, descriptive plugs of that nature?

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2021 #537

    Why did you read it through to the end? 🤔

    I tend to ignore reviews and base my decision to read on the description of the story type.

  • moulesy
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    edited January 2021 #538

    I read it some time ago and enjoyed it - a good suspenseful storyline. Also enjoyed her follow up book Into The Water.

    I never rely on the New York Times when choosing which books to read! wink

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #539

    I've just returned a book to the library, written by Graham Hurley. Never read one before but ordered 2, different storylines. The first one wasn't to my taste at all and I knew it after the first 30 pages so gave up on it. I started the second one last night and immediately read about 100 pages. Intend to read it to the end.

    Both were given rave reviews but like TW I tend to ignore those and concentrate on a few websites that are consistently good at letting you know the score. It's a bit like reading reviews for campsites or CLs. There are some you have to read between the lines and some you just have to find out for yourself.

    I don't tend to read "Blockbusters" or "Richard and Judy Recommends". Whose to say their taste is similar to mine?

  • Wherenext
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    edited January 2021 #540

    Kindle have a M W Craven (Poe and Bradshaw) book on sale for £1.99 called Cut Short. Only problem is that it is 3 short stories in the book and I'm not a big fan of short stories. So do I get it or not? Probably as it's not going to break the bank. Anyone else have my misgivings about short stories?

  • Tinwheeler
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    edited January 2021 #541

    Mmm, I like to get immersed in a good long gripping story and I'm sometimes disappointed if they seem to be over quickly. I do read short stories occasionally if they're about characters I've already met and liked in full length books.

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