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Tuesday, April 21, 2020

the last book I read

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Lanark by Alasdair Gray. Where do you start with a book like this? Well, it's subtitled "A Life In 4 Books" so obviously y...
Tuesday, April 07, 2020

the last book I read

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Surface Detail by Iain M Banks. Life, as they say, is a bitch, and then you die. And then, if you're a prudent Culture citizen and h...
Friday, April 03, 2020

headline of the day

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Just as with the William Shatner one from a month or so ago, today's headline pretty much picks itself (with the caveat that I haven...
Tuesday, March 31, 2020

pandemix and cartoongraphix

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A couple of book-related things, firstly one related to the last book review. My copy of Imaginary Friends was acquired, or so the label on...
Sunday, March 22, 2020

the last book I read

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Imaginary Friends by Alison Lurie. Roger Zimmern is a newly-qualified professor of sociology at Corinth University (fictional, but appa...
Friday, March 06, 2020

headline of the day

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Not much competition for this title today: it pretty much has to be this one. It's unclear from the article whether Shatner just e...
Monday, March 02, 2020

the last book I read

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The Affirmation by Christopher Priest. Peter Sinclair is twenty-nine. Or is he? He lives in London. Or does he? He's been spending ...
Friday, February 28, 2020

headline of the day

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From Twitter , and not a crash blossom for once, this is just a bit....well, see for yourself: It definitely has a bit of a Day Today...
Monday, February 24, 2020

getting blown off at the weekend

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Two motivational celebrity quotes for you today. The first is from the great Bill Hicks, whose views on the desirability of exciting and div...
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the last book I read

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The Marriage Plot by Jeffrey Eugenides. Madeleine Hanna is a student at Brown University in the early 1980s, studying English literatu...
Monday, February 10, 2020

sentenced to death

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The other point I was going to make in the last book review is that Jonathan Coe is one of those people who write broadly "literary...
Sunday, February 09, 2020

the last book I read

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Middle England by Jonathan Coe. There is, I think, a reasonably convincing argument that there was a moment in 2010 when the UK's r...
Friday, January 31, 2020

cuddlebritoy lookeylikey of the day

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My younger daughter Alys' cuddly pig, which she calls Piggy but I call Alf, for reasons which are entirely mysterious to her (and may be...
Thursday, January 30, 2020

celebrity paintylikey of the day

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The guy from Grant Wood's iconic painting American Gothic , who is supposed to represent some sort of archetypal Iowan farming type but ...
Tuesday, January 28, 2020

the last book I read

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Dr. Bloodmoney by Philip K Dick. I dunno, you wait ages for a planet-scouring apocalypse and then two come along in successive book rev...
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