paul rated The scold's bridle: 4 stars

Math teacher. Loves sci-fi and real science on teaching. Based in the Netherlands.
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Evelyn Waugh: Black mischief (2003, Everyman)
A biting satire about an African Emperor, educated at an English public school, who unilaterally decides to modernize his backward …
John Grisham: The Runaway Jury (2006, Delta)
An anonymous woman tips officials that the jury for a multimillion dollar trial surrounding the tobacco industry may be tampered …
In his final semester of law school, Rudy Baylor "finds himself taking on one of the most powerful, corrupt, and …
The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel …
Orson Scott Card: Speaker for the dead (1992, Legend)
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and that he must dismiss his …
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, this book applies Godel's seminal contribution to modern mathematics to the study of the human …
Ger Verrips: Nathalie (Dutch language, 1974, Elsevier)