Didn’t finish
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September’s book club book was Matterhorn by Karl Marlantes which is a novel set during the Vietnam War. I can’t really say what the book is about without cheating and looking at wikipedia because I only made it through the first hundred pages (of six hundred). In those first one hundred pages nothing happens. There…
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I’m supposed to like this, right? It’s a classic. And I remember I liked the film a lot when I was younger. Maybe that was just because Sting was in it. Dune by Frank Herbert has been sitting on my shelf for a good five years since it was bought for me by a friend…
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Take the periodic table and make a book full of interesting facts and factoids about each of the elements. What a brilliant idea. How could that not be a great idea? I was so full of hope about Periodic Tales by Hugh Aldersley-Williams. The concept seemed to be all things I love; random useless nuggets…
Boudica Marginalia 