The Caveman’s Corner

This review is also doubling as an essay for college. The book is a memoir by Ishmael Beah of his time as a refugee and then child soldier in the civil war in Sierra Leone from around 1992 to 2003. Sorry the text has been so weird on my last few posts, but they’ve been copied in from Word and the font is different. I don’t suppose it’s very professional of me not to figure out how to integrate it better.

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The Anthropoid Origins series is taking longer than I anticipated, largely because I’m lazy and rediscovered Civilization IV there briefly (ironically, while taking a break from working on my paper on Adapoid Theory), which destroyed a few days of my life. I’ve also made a few false starts at blog posts that never ended up getting published. But, because I’m feeling guilty about neglecting my poor blog, I bring you a review of the book I just finished, Lucy’s Child: The Discovery a Human Ancestor.

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I finished Amir Aczel’s The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man today, and I decided to write up a review/reflection sort of thing. I haven’t decided exactly which yet. I’ve thought about adding a feature like this before and I enjoyed doing it, so you might conceivably see more reviews.

From Amazon, obviously

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