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Another example of the slightly counter-productive effect of prissily asterisk-ing out relatively innocuous words from news articles - here...

Following on from my complaints (reasonable I think) about printing and/or binding errors in previous books on this list - Bluesman , Lolita...

Following on from the last book post and its predecessor, I observed at the end of the Jack Maggs review that its title was the latest in a...

A couple of book-related points relating to recent book-related posts.  Quite a few of the articles about From A Buick 8 make some referenc...

Here's an interesting headline from Rolling Stone which I spotted the other day. Nothing so weird about that one, you'll probably b...

I was reminded by seeing Freedom juxtaposed with its immediate predecessor Candide that I'd done a post a while back about one-word bo...

Special recently deceased sporting celebrity slash dreadful 1980s music throwback edition today, as we see recently deceased former Olympic ...

MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and our current deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner , and, hem hem, adult entertainment performer Lauren Phillips ...

The Devil's Star by Jo Nesbø. Meet Harry Hole. He's a maverick cop, who doesn't play by the - hang on *checks notes* ah, I see...

You'll recall I made some scornful references to my general disinclination towards "checking exhaustively" and the like in my ...

The Reader by Bernhard Schlink. West Germany, the late 1950s. Not such a bad place, though there are a few things brewing on the horizon, i...

Here's a bit of random fun: you'll probably have all seen one or more of the various internet things that attempt to categorise put...

Here's an odd thing I noticed yesterday which I surely can't have been the first person to question, and which I'm mildly surpri...

Here's one for the COINCIDENCE? OR IS IT?* files:  Adjourn to bed and pick up my current book (featuring trees prominently as a narrativ...

One thing I could have added to the review of The Overstory is that the endpoint of Patricia's logical train of thought about how to sa...

Obviously I can't leave that link at the bottom of the last book post hanging, so here's an updated version of the list in that 201...