A review by bibliocyclist
Disparates: Essays by Patrick Madden

3.0

Imagine the disparate.  Do you see a pile of miscellany?  Or perhaps you’re a Portuguese or Spanish speaker.  Do you see something absurd or trivial?  Whichever your mental image, check out the light-hearted essay collection Disparates by Brigham Young University professor Patrick Madden.  Learn the rules to Beyond Balderdash, feel the special nostalgia that longs for what never happened, find common ground through laughter, and consider the proposition that, “if at the microscopic level our atoms never quite touch, then maybe words and diseases are all we have to reach one another.”