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Reading, writing, and other things

Category: Books

  • Thoughts on reading: One Day

    Book club time! This month we read One Day by David Nicholls. It’s mainstream fiction of the Nick Hornby type. I don’t really know what to say about this. The…


  • Thoughts on reading: The Broken Sword

    So, I’m making my way through the Fantasy Masterworks series – this is going to take some time, bear with me – and lately I read The Broken Sword by…


  • Thoughts on reading: Club Dead

    The Book People come to where I work and sometimes you can gets lots of books for little money. The last time they had eight Sookie Stackhouse novels for a…


  • Thoughts on Reading: Confessor

    Confessor is the last of a long cycle by Terry Goodkind. Once again, I haven’t read the others; it’s just something I found on my shelf. I enjoyed the writing.…


  • Jarka Ruus

    As I’m working my way through my enormous pile of unread books, which is not getting any smaller as I keep adding to it, not that I have some sort…


  • Tess of the d’Urbervilles

    Back to the classics. Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is probably one of the most famous stories of english literature. The story follows the eponymous heroine as she…


  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

    I bought The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo by Steig Larsson on the strength of the marketing, the fact that I saw everyone reading it and loads of people said…


  • The Reason of Things

    As it’s been a while since I was posting regularly, I’ve gotten a bit out of order with the books I’ve read and for several reasons it’s been a non-fiction…


  • Living Dead in Dallas

    I was going to leave Living Dead in Dallas by Charlaine Harris, the second Sookie Stackhouse novel, until True Blood Season 2 was on but I forgot until I was…


  • Brooklyn

    April’s Book Club book was Brooklyn by Colm Toibin. It wasn’t my cup of tea. I was bored reading it and it felt like a chore. But that wasn’t because…


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