Coming up next: Books for July 2010
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
What I’m hoping to read in July.
My Weekly Book
The challenge: to read 52 books in one calendar year.
Posts Tagged ‘Julian May’
Jack the Bodiless – Julian May
Sunday, July 4th, 2010
We seem to have been reading Julian May for ever. This is partly because her Saga of the Exiles and Galactic Milieu series run to quite a number of books and partly because each of those books is long in its own right. Also, the world she has created in their pages is on an operatic scale and mightily absorbing.
Jungian psychological types and Julian May
Monday, July 20th, 2009
A year or so ago, I read and greatly enjoyed The Saga of the Exiles, on the recommendation of someone who had first come across them in childhood. Much more recently I became interested in Jungian psychology as one of the very few areas where science meets mysticism on terms that are not complete and utter nonsense. And there are striking parallels between the two.
The Many-Coloured Land – Julian May
Monday, May 5th, 2008
We’ve started this series (once again being read out loud) in an attempt to fill the hole in our reading lives opened up by the completion in March of the entire sweep of Modesty Blaise novels. Feeling daunted by the sheer scale of Patrick O’Brien’s Aubrey/Maturin saga, and yet wanting something with a bit of staying power, this eight (or sometimes nine) volume science fiction epic seemed like an excellent choice – and so it has proved.