Books
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Jun 28, 2022:
Linkblog π: Portable Magic by Emma Smith review β a love letter to reading
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Jun 28, 2022:
Linkblog π: βItβs dopamineβ: why we love to track our watching and reading habits
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May 28, 2022:
Finished reading: Big Snake Little Snake: An Inquiry into Risk by DBC Pierre π
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May 28, 2022:
Finished reading: Rice, Noodle, Fish: Deep Travels Through Japan’s Food Culture by Matt β¦
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May 5, 2022:
Home with the second-hand spoils of Hay-on-Wye π
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May 5, 2022:
Hay-on-Wye π
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Apr 28, 2022:
Finished reading: One Language by Anastasia Taylor-Lind π
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Mar 22, 2022:
Currently reading: The Man Who Died Twice by Richard Osman π
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Mar 18, 2022:
Finished reading: Thomas Hardy: The Time-torn Man by Claire Tomalin π
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Mar 17, 2022:
Finished reading: Why Buddhism is True: The Science and Philosophy of Meditation and Enlightenment β¦
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Feb 26, 2022:
Finished reading: Homo Irrealis by AndrΓ© Aciman π
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Feb 12, 2022:
The Paris Review - Cavafyβs Bed π
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Feb 10, 2022:
Donβt Network: The Avant-Garde after Networks [2018] π
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Feb 2, 2022:
Family owners put Blackwellβs bookshops up for sale π
This is a shame. Blackwell’s is usually β¦
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Jan 28, 2022:
Currently reading: Hear Me Out by Armando Iannucci π
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Jan 21, 2022:
Finished reading: A Tale for the Time Being by Ruth Ozeki π
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Dec 24, 2021:
Finished reading: Pandemonium by Armando Iannucci π
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Dec 21, 2021:
Finished reading: Bitter Lemons of Cyprus by Lawrence Durrell π
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Dec 6, 2021:
Quote used by Ruth Ozeki in A Tale for the Time Being π β
In reality, every reader, while he is β¦
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Nov 8, 2021:
Atlas maps Hogwarts, Jurassic Park & made-up places π
So where actually is Batman’s β¦
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Nov 6, 2021:
Currently reading: The Secret Commonwealth (The Book of Dust Volume 2) by Philip Pullman π
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Oct 21, 2021:
Currently reading: La Belle Sauvage by Philip Pullman π
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Sep 16, 2021:
Currently reading: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro π
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Sep 15, 2021:
Finished reading: Do Earth by Tamsin Omond π
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Sep 13, 2021:
Currently reading: The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu π
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Sep 13, 2021:
Currently reading: The Snows of Kilimanjaro and other stories by Ernest Hemingway π
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Sep 12, 2021:
Currently reading: Four Thousand Weeks by Oliver Burkeman π
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Sep 10, 2021:
Currently reading: Introducing Buddha by Jane Hope & Borin Van Loon π
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Aug 27, 2021:
Currently reading: How Did We Get into This Mess? Politics, Equality, Nature by George Monbiot π
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Aug 27, 2021:
Currently reading: Sissy by Ben Borek π
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Distracted from distraction by distraction Aug 9, 2021
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Aug 6, 2021:
You look around. A strong case could be made for it being heaven. A strong case could be made for it β¦
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Jul 8, 2021:
Currently reading: Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam π
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Jun 27, 2021:
Ancestors by Alice Roberts review β a story of movement and migration π π
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Jun 14, 2021:
Currently reading: Ancestors by Alice Roberts π
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May 19, 2021:
Currently reading: Jack Kerouac: King of The Beats by Barry Miles π
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Apr 21, 2021:
Currently reading: Medical Grade Music by Steve Davis & Kavus Torabi π
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Medical Grade Music ππ΅ Apr 21, 2021
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Mar 30, 2021:
Sunny day βοΈ - trying to colour coordinate drinking and reading π
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Mar 30, 2021:
Currently reading: The Beats: A Graphic History by Harvey Pekar, Ed Piskor et al π
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Mar 30, 2021:
Interesting and informative podcast series from the Keats-Shelley Memorial Association and β¦
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Mar 27, 2021:
Jazz audiences are always On the Road π π΅
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Feb 25, 2021:
Michael Rosen blog post on Reading for Pleasure π π
A child
A book
A read
A chat.
This is the β¦
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Feb 24, 2021:
Currently reading: Jews Donβt Count by David Baddiel π
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Feb 20, 2021:
Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘AI, gene-editing, big data … I worry we are not in control of these β¦
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Jan 24, 2021:
Currently reading: Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline π
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Nov 30, 2020:
Currently reading: The Ruins by Mat Osman π
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Nov 20, 2020:
The piles of books I posted a photo of yesterday have been re-housed upstairs. According to Apple β¦
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Nov 19, 2020:
Moving four large bookcases. Trying to prevent our books from descending into chaos. π π
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Nov 10, 2020:
Mary Wollstonecraft finally honoured with statue after 200 years. π
It shows a silvery naked β¦
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Oct 8, 2020:
Currently reading: The Fire of Joy by Clive James π
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Oct 8, 2020:
Currently reading: The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman π
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Sep 28, 2020:
Clive James: ‘The poems I remember are the milestones marking the journey of my life’ π β¦
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Sep 27, 2020:
‘He returned to what he really was’: Clive James’s daughter on his poetic farewell β¦
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Sep 16, 2020:
Currently reading: Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis π
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Sep 14, 2020:
Currently reading: Talking to My Daughter: A Brief History of Capitalism by Yanis Varoufakis π
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Sep 6, 2020:
Currently reading: Bob Willis: A Cricketer and a Gentleman by Bob Willis and Mike Dickson π
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Aug 9, 2020:
Finished reading: Matilda Infantry Tank 1938-45 by David Fletcher π
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Jul 29, 2020:
Currently reading: The Periodic Table by Primo Levi π
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Jul 22, 2020:
Chris Frantz: Remain in Love π β Excerpt: David Byrne overwhelms the image of Talking Heads. With β¦
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Jun 26, 2020:
Currently reading: The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell π
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Jun 6, 2020:
Currently reading: My Lord, What a Morning by Marian Anderson π
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May 20, 2020:
Currently reading: The Book of Tokyo: A City In Short Fiction (Reading the City) edited by Jim β¦
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Apr 24, 2020:
Currently reading: Whatever by Michel Houellebecq π
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Apr 17, 2020:
Currently reading: We Are the Weather: Saving the Planet Begins at Breakfast by Jonathan Safran Foer β¦
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Apr 14, 2020:
Radical Wordsworth by Jonathan Bate review β fleet-footed and inspiriting π β Excerpt: In 1798, β¦
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Apr 9, 2020:
Currently reading: Ascension by Gregory Dowling π
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Mar 27, 2020:
Currently reading: The Feed by Nick Clark Windo π
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Mar 23, 2020:
Just received Tim Andersonβs Vegan JapanEasy in todayβs post. Still awaiting delivery of some β¦
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Mar 9, 2020:
Currently reading: Machines Like Me by Ian McEwan π
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Feb 6, 2020:
Currently reading: The Secret Purposes by David Baddiel π
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Dec 24, 2019:
The (Quiet) Death of a Legendary Parisian Bookstore π β Excerpt: When it was announced that the β¦
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Nov 29, 2019:
How to measure a year of reading π - this sums it up nicely
Tom Gauld in The Guardian β link π
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Nov 14, 2019:
Baudelaireβs unknown extra verse to erotic poem revealed β link π π
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Nov 6, 2019:
Forward Arts Foundation in conversation with Fiona Benson β link π
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Nov 6, 2019:
Currently reading: Vertigo & Ghost by Fiona Benson π
Purchased after reading this review in The β¦
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Nov 1, 2019:
Currently reading: Baudelaire by Claude Pichois and Jean Ziegler π
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Oct 24, 2019:
Finished reading: Death at La Fenice by Donna Leon π
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Oct 19, 2019:
Top 10 books about Europe β link π
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Oct 3, 2019:
Currently reading: Ayoade on Ayoade: A Cinematic Odyssey by Richard Ayoade π
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Sep 17, 2019:
Currently reading: The Second Sleep by Robert Harris π
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Aug 27, 2019:
Currently reading: Artemis by Andy Weir π
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Aug 9, 2019:
A secondhand book is a glimpse into the lives of other readers ππ
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Jul 5, 2019:
Currently reading: The Alexandria Quartet by Lawrence Durrell π
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Jul 3, 2019:
Currently reading: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight by Simon Armitage (trans.) π
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Jul 2, 2019:
Currently reading: Ways of Seeing by John Berger π
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Jul 1, 2019:
Currently reading: Cane by Jean Toomer π
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Jul 1, 2019:
Finished reading Circe by Madeline Miller. Very readable and lively recounting of the Greek Odyssey β¦
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Jun 27, 2019:
Currently reading: Circe by Madeline Miller π
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Jun 25, 2019:
Currently reading: Dr James Barry - A Woman Ahead of Her Time by Michael du Perez & Jeremy β¦
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Jun 25, 2019:
Currently reading: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim by David Sedaris π
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May 28, 2019:
Currently reading: A High Wind in Jamaica by Richard Hughes π
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May 25, 2019:
π Less whaling in Moby Dick! - Tom Gauld on fan petitions β cartoon
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May 24, 2019:
A crowdfunding appeal is bringing readers, authors and publishers together to help keep the copy of β¦
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May 12, 2019:
Currently reading: The Messenger of Athens by Anne Zouroudi π
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May 4, 2019:
Currently reading: The Invisible Library by Genevieve Cogman π
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Apr 22, 2019:
Currently reading: Vengeance in Venice by Philip Gwynne Jones π
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Apr 13, 2019:
Currently reading: The Black Book by Lawrence Durrell π
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Mar 25, 2019:
Currently reading: The Greek Islands by Lawrence Durrell π
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Mar 8, 2019:
Finished reading: Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman π
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Mar 7, 2019:
Currently reading: Snap by Belinda Bauer π
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Feb 25, 2019:
Currently reading: Utopia for Realists: And How We Can Get There by Rutger Bregman π
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Feb 25, 2019:
Finished reading: The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis π
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Feb 21, 2019:
Currently reading: The Murderess by Alexandros Papadiamantis π
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Feb 17, 2019:
Currently reading: Thirteen by Steve Cavanagh π
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Jan 23, 2019:
Currently reading: The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton π
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Jan 19, 2019:
Tom Gauld on how to deal with owning too many books β π cartoon π
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Dec 4, 2018:
Currently reading: Travels with Epicurus: Meditations from a Greek Island on the Pleasures of Old β¦
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Nov 22, 2018:
Currently reading: Friday Black by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah π
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Oct 31, 2018:
Thought this was an appropriate choice to start reading on Halloween π» π π
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Oct 31, 2018:
Currently reading: Dark Matter by Michelle Paver π
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Oct 26, 2018:
π Whoβs the Most Instagrammed Writer of All Time?
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Oct 25, 2018:
Currently reading: Venice by Peter Ackroyd π
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Oct 19, 2018:
Tom Gauld on buying a novel in the digital age β cartoon π
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Oct 16, 2018:
Currently reading: Are you experienced? by William Sutcliffe π
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Oct 13, 2018:
Pint of Titanic Cherry Dark πΊ in The Salutation β it was on these premises in 1846 that Charlotte β¦
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Oct 3, 2018:
Currently reading: The Snowman by Jo Nesbo π
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Sep 11, 2018:
Currently reading: The Redeemer by Jo Nesbo π
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Aug 30, 2018:
Currently reading: The Devilβs Star by Jo Nesbo π
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Aug 30, 2018:
Currently reading: Percy Bysshe Shelley β Poet and Revolutionary by Jacqueline Mulhallen π
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Aug 27, 2018:
Currently reading: An Endangered Species by David Gower π
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Aug 24, 2018:
Currently reading: The Complete Short Stories of Raffles by E. W. Hornung π
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Aug 21, 2018:
Currently reading: Terror and terroir β The winegrowers of the Languedoc and modern France by Andrew β¦
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Aug 20, 2018:
Just noticed that the book Iβm currently reading is published by Cambridge University Press but just β¦
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Aug 20, 2018:
Currently reading: Monteverdiβs Unruly Women β The Power of Song in Early Italy by Bonnie Gordon π
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Aug 15, 2018:
Finished reading: Adults In The Room: My Battle With Europeβs Deep Establishment by Yanis Varoufakis β¦
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Bats in libraries Aug 1, 2018
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Jul 30, 2018:
Currently reading: Opening Up by Mike Atherton π
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Jul 30, 2018:
Emily BrontΓ«’s Wuthering Heights β in charts π
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Jul 25, 2018:
Currently reading: Poetry Notebook: 2006β2014 by Clive James π
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Jul 21, 2018:
Cartoon β Tom Gauld on The Odyssey
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Jul 16, 2018:
Currently reading: Jesus' Son by Denis Johnson π
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Jul 13, 2018:
Stig of the Dump β published the year I was born, a book I remember extremely well from my β¦
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Jul 2, 2018:
Currently reading: Islam for the Politically Incorrect by Khaled Diab π
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Jun 29, 2018:
I’ve heard of Cyberpunk and Steampunk before β and read books that fall into those categories β¦
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Jun 28, 2018:
Now reading Introducing Sartre: A Graphic Guide by Philip Thody (Author) and Howard Read β¦
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Jun 26, 2018:
Now reading The Fall by Albert Camus π
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Jun 20, 2018:
π DaΕ‘a DrndiΔ β ‘unflinching’ Croatian novelist, dies aged 71. π
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May 30, 2018:
Now reading Instrumental by James Rhodes π
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An Illustrated Guide to Guy Debord's 'The Society of the Spectacle' May 16, 2018
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Apr 29, 2018:
Now reading Red Gas by Edward Topol π
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Apr 20, 2018:
Now reading The Last Weekend by Blake Morrison. π
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Apr 13, 2018:
Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s remains rediscovered in wine cellar π
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Mar 31, 2018:
Now Iβve just got to investigate Ursula K Le Guin’s electronica album and the associated book β¦
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Mar 26, 2018:
Now reading The Executor by Blake Morrison. π
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Mar 12, 2018:
I finally got to watch Blade Runner 2049 last weekend. Very impressed with the film so have decided β¦
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Mar 12, 2018:
Interesting article by Blake Morrison - Up in smoke: should an author’s dying wishes be β¦
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Mar 7, 2018:
Mary Wollstonecraft, author of A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792), the first book in β¦
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Feb 26, 2018:
Edna St Vincent Millay is one of my favourite poets - just noticed and appreciated this article, β¦
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Feb 2, 2018:
Now reading The Outrun by Amy Liptrot π
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Jan 24, 2018:
Ursula K Le Guin, sci-fi and fantasy author, dies aged 88. The Dispossessed has always been one of β¦
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Jan 16, 2018:
Quite ridiculous! - A new trend to βcoordinateβ the look of your library by turning the spines to β¦
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Jan 15, 2018:
My kitchen bookcase is getting a little overcrowded. π
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Jan 14, 2018:
Now reading a biography - D. H. Lawrence - The Life of Outsider by John Worthen. π
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Jan 14, 2018:
I used to sporadically keep a record of the books I was reading on a Tumblr blog at β¦
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Jan 10, 2018:
Interesting brief survey of the history, themes and current state of dystopian fiction in this BBC β¦
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Sri Lankan cooking tonight Nov 20, 2017
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Sep 24, 2017:
… and I still base my nut roast on a recipe in my 30+ year old Cranks recipe book. Canβt be β¦
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Sep 15, 2017:
πBookmark β Mary Shelley review β sturdy literary biopic fails to resurrect spirit of author β but I β¦
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Aug 1, 2017:
House of Alexandros Papadiamantis
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Jul 22, 2017:
Just started reading the first of Peter F. Hamilton’s Chronicle of the Fallers Series - two β¦
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May 3, 2017:
Adults in the Room by Yanis Varoufakis review β one of the greatest political memoirs ever?
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Jan 21, 2017:
Here I Am #books #reading #nowreading https://t.co/lJnYtCaZae
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Aug 4, 2013:
I finished Ready Player One a couple of days ago, and now Dark Eden. If I was somewhere with β¦
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Apr 8, 2010:
http://twitpic.com/1e0juk - Hay not all about pubs though!