Title: The View from Mount Improbable
Author: Richard Dawkins
Type: Non-Fiction
Page Count/Review Word Count: 60
Rating: 4*/5
Richard Dawkins – The View from Mount Improbable
This book is actually just an extract from Dawkins‘ 1997 release Climbing Mount Improbable, and it’s all about how eyes evolved and how intelligent design just doesn’t cut it as an explanation. Worth reading, I’d say.
Richard Dawkins
Title: Selected Poems: 1976 – 1997
Author: Andrew Motion
Type: Poetry
Page Count/Review Word Count: 152
Rating: 4*/5
Andrew Motion – Selected Poems: 1976 – 1997
This book was a pleasant little surprise, helped by the fact that I got it super cheap at a village fair in aid of charity. I think I paid 20p for it, which was well worth it. Motion is a former poet laureate, and while I wasn’t blown away by his poetry and his writing, it was still a decent enough read and worth reading if you get a chance.
Motion’s poetry blurs the line between classical and contemporary, but I can see how much of the work here would have been innovative when it first appeared. I don’t think I’d go out of my way to read any more of his work, but I am glad that I got the chance to read this much. I think poetry like Motion’s is necessary.
Andrew Motion
