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Favourite books?

hypercolius

Hi, I wanted to start this thread to share what our favourite books are!

Here are mine:

Favourite overall: Life and Death: Twilight reimagined (Meyer). I love romantic novels. Love, theoretically was also excellent as was Love hypothesis :) 

Favourite non-fiction: Assyria: The rise and fall of the world's first empire (Frahm). This caused a massive, obsessive hyperfocus on learning about Assyria when I'm just an astrophysicist!

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  • Great post!

    I don’t have an all time favourite book, but I have chosen some of my stand-out books.

    Non-fiction

    The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines. Edited by Timothy Insoll. 
    This reference book offers a comparative survey of approaches to figurine studies from around the world. It is an excellent resource although it could do with being updated as it doesn’t include contemporary theories and approaches since 2017. Nevertheless, it remains an invaluable resource.

    God: An Anatomy. Francesca Stavrakopoulou                                                                                                                                               This has been described as a remarkable book and I would agree. The author is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. She discusses God’s physical attributes as described in sources going back to El.  Many of the things she discusses are common knowledge for theologians, archaeologists and historians, yet she is the first person to categorise God’s anatomy over the ages and to put it into a single book. The paperback edition is a handy size, is extremely well bound, and has been produced on good paper. It feels good in the hand and I just love this book. 

    Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Freedom. Mark Bekoff and Jessica Pierce.                            
    The authors are highly respected in their fields and their book has received acclaim from canine behaviourists, veterinary surgeons, canine psychologists and ethologists around the world. Canine behaviour is one of my interests and I endeavour to follow the principles of this book as I want to give my dogs the best life possible. 

    Fiction

    The Island. Victoria Hislop

    The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini

    The Marriage Portrait. Maggie O’Farrell

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  • Great post!

    I don’t have an all time favourite book, but I have chosen some of my stand-out books.

    Non-fiction

    The Oxford Handbook of Prehistoric Figurines. Edited by Timothy Insoll. 
    This reference book offers a comparative survey of approaches to figurine studies from around the world. It is an excellent resource although it could do with being updated as it doesn’t include contemporary theories and approaches since 2017. Nevertheless, it remains an invaluable resource.

    God: An Anatomy. Francesca Stavrakopoulou                                                                                                                                               This has been described as a remarkable book and I would agree. The author is Professor of Hebrew Bible and Ancient Religion at the University of Exeter. She discusses God’s physical attributes as described in sources going back to El.  Many of the things she discusses are common knowledge for theologians, archaeologists and historians, yet she is the first person to categorise God’s anatomy over the ages and to put it into a single book. The paperback edition is a handy size, is extremely well bound, and has been produced on good paper. It feels good in the hand and I just love this book. 

    Unleashing Your Dog: A Field Guide to Freedom. Mark Bekoff and Jessica Pierce.                            
    The authors are highly respected in their fields and their book has received acclaim from canine behaviourists, veterinary surgeons, canine psychologists and ethologists around the world. Canine behaviour is one of my interests and I endeavour to follow the principles of this book as I want to give my dogs the best life possible. 

    Fiction

    The Island. Victoria Hislop

    The Kite Runner. Khaled Hosseini

    The Marriage Portrait. Maggie O’Farrell

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