Haven't posted in a while. This is what I can remeber from the past month:
Just finished
"The Neck of the Giraffe" by Francis Hitchings, which was very disappointing, primarily because its treatment of evolutionary theory is VERY uneven - in places I got the impression he hadn't a clue about what he is writing about (natural selection) and yet in others I thought he did a reasonable job of presenting the concepts (genetics). I am currently reading
Richard Dawkins' "The Greatest Show on Earth", which is better. Next up are
"The Humans Who Went Extinct: Why Neanderthals died out and we survived" by Clive Finlayson and
"The Calculus Lifesaver" by Adrian Banner. Prior to "The Neck of the Giraffe", I read
"North America's great ape, the Sasquatch : a wildlife biologist looks at the continent's most misunderstood large mammal" by John A. Bindernagel (his grandsons are in my sons' classes at school) and "
Sasquatch : legend meets science" by Jeff Meldrum. I found the last quite disappointing. Bindernagel's book didn't get preachy or try to "convert" the reader to the cause, he simply stated at the outset that he was making the assumption that Big Foot/Sasquatches are real and presented a discussion and interpretation of the evidence. Meldrum's book was almost evangelical in its presentation of the evidence and anecdotes, which I found annoying. I remain very skeptical about the existence of sasquatches, but enjoy reading about them.
The last fiction that I read were:
"Through Black Spruce" by Joseph Boyden (excellent), Michael Connelley's penultimate effort, "
The Scarecrow" (very good), and
"Ender's Game" by Orson Scott Card - one of my all time favourites. I have a P.D. James novel queued up for a read courtesy of my mother, but I don't know the title.
EDIT: added links
EDIT 2: added a missing link
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