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I don’t read a lot of poetry because I mostly don’t really get it, but occasionally something catches me. In this case, a quote in Civilization VI, when you receive…
This is another of the books that has been sitting on my shelf unread for years because it’s too heavy to carry around on the train. The Sagas of the…
How have I waited so long to read The Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret Atwood? It’s a classic, and has been televised, and is the kind of thing that sometimes you…
I’ve had this book on my shelf for a long time, wanting to read it but thinking it might be hard work. Seven Viking Romances, translated by Hermann Pálsson and…
June Book Club was a double bill: A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway and The Paris Wife by Paula McLain. A Moveable Feast is a collection of vignettes recalling the…
Reading War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy was my main reading goal for this year. I spend a couple of hours a day on a train and I like to…
Free kindle books! Yay. There are books now out of copyright that are available free for the kindle and I have availed myself of a few. One of them is…
I’ve not read many classics this year, due to a perception that they take longer to read that modern novels of the same length, and I’ve been conscious of having…
I do like lists. From the Huffington Post, here’s a list of books that apparently people claim to have read but haven’t. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer – I read…
Last year, there was a television adaptation of The Turn of the Screw by Henry James and thus there followed much discussion of its horror and psychological twists. Well, what…
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