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Monday, December 16, 2024

scotial media

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Christmas is coming up, as you know, and one of the things that I like to look forward at Christmastime, in addition to all the heartwarming...
Sunday, November 24, 2024

aged blogger smells rat, headline meaning

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

the last book I read

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The Prestige by Christopher Priest. Pick a card; any card: wrong ! But seriously, I mean, we all love a magician, right? Rabbits out of hats...
Tuesday, November 19, 2024

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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I experienced a jarring moment while reading about the upcoming change in presenter on the Radio 2 breakfast show. I should make it clear th...
Thursday, November 14, 2024

the last book I read

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Who's Sorry Now? by Howard Jacobson. Marvin Kreitman and Charlie Merriweather are old friends, despite being very different characters,...
Sunday, November 10, 2024

stinky diedman

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So obviously that last post prompted a more general review of the list and an attempt to come up with some sort of shortlist of potential f...

colegate: a brush with death

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While I do my best to keep up with the steady snuffing out of the lives of novelists wreaked by this blog on an ongoing basis, I'm a bus...
Friday, November 01, 2024

wordy num num

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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...

the last book I read

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Freedom by Jonathan Franzen. Berglunds, meet the Berglunds, they're a Minnesotan family. In the town of St. Paul , they're about to...
Friday, October 25, 2024

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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Special recently deceased sporting celebrity slash dreadful 1980s music throwback edition today, as we see recently deceased former Olympic ...
Thursday, October 24, 2024

all right, smart alec

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You might recall that when I reviewed Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy here a while ago I mentioned that I'd seen the highly-regarded 2011 fil...
Tuesday, October 15, 2024

celebrity lookeylikey of the day

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MP for Ashton-under-Lyne and our current deputy Prime Minister Angela Rayner , and, hem hem, adult entertainment performer Lauren Phillips ...
Monday, October 14, 2024

the last book I read

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Candide by Voltaire.  So there's this chap, erm ... *checks notes* ... Candide. A minor relative of the Baron of Thunder-ten-Tronckh, l...
Monday, September 30, 2024

happy quadricentennial to me

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So as I coyly alluded to in the previous post , the appearance of an Anita Shreve book in this list often marks a key moment in its history...
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