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Tuesday, November 01, 2011

The month in review - October

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With my commuting reading time gone as a result of cycling a pattern of reading at night and in chunks over the weekend has emerged and as ...
Wednesday, October 12, 2011

Under the Autumn Star

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The Wanderer is split into two stories and partly for the sake of remembering and partly because I'm reading so slowly that the temptat...
Monday, October 10, 2011

book review: Laikonik Express by Nick Sweeney

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There are several things going on here ranging from the finding yourself type tale, the I want to write something but what should I write st...
Friday, September 30, 2011

book review: Busy Monsters by William Giraldi

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Man falls in love with woman. She falls in love with idea of finding giant squid. She leaves and he goes crazy aided by a friend who has a...
Tuesday, September 13, 2011

Top 100 books

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People seem to love lists so the chance to have a browse of another one will no doubt get the debate going. World Book Night has unveiled ...
Monday, September 05, 2011

Book review: They Shoot Horses, Don't They? by Horace McCoy

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"'What's the matter with Gloria?' James asked me one day as we came back to the floor from the sleeping quarters. 'Noth...
Sunday, September 04, 2011

book review: The Financial Lives of the Poets by Jess Walter

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"And in my fraying head there plays a new medley of war and instability, financial collapse and bad schools; foreclosure, eviction; cyn...
Saturday, September 03, 2011

book review: Mister Pip by Lloyd Jones

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"I had found a new friend. The surprising thing is where I’d found him – not up a tree or sulking in the shade, or splashing around in ...
Friday, September 02, 2011

Catching up

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There is a pile of books that have been read but not reviewed by my desk and I am determined to get through them. So over the next few days ...
Thursday, September 01, 2011

Month in review: August

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Managed to have a month of good reading building on the back of a strong July, where the books were great holiday companions. When I can the...
Wednesday, August 31, 2011

book review: The Scarlet Plague by Jack London

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Apart from the references to airships which gives away the limits of London's knowledge of just how far technology could go this boo...
Monday, August 29, 2011

book review: Stabat Mater by Tiziano Scarpa

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The power of music to change lives is well documented but when the life is so damaged and bereft of love the chance for the sounds to do...
Friday, August 26, 2011

book review: Rome Tales edited by Helen Constantine

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"Entering the forbidding portal, climbing the staircase and then passing through the darkened rooms of the vast building, I was goi...
Thursday, August 25, 2011

book review: The Ascent of Isaac Steward by Mike French

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"The black horse kicked hooves into the yellow sky; its long mane flowing north across southern plains. It stopped as a red light fla...
Monday, August 22, 2011

book review: The Imperfectionists by Tom Rachman

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"Typewriters disappeared next, replaced by video display terminals. Overnight, the newsroom's distinctive clack-clack-bing ...
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