Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry
Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry with reviews of 3 novels and links to half-a-dozen more. Also more train references than anyone really needs. More…
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At the sign of the Alchemist – a reading diary
At the sign of the Alchemist – a new Reading Diary entry: reading strategies, Nostromo by Joseph Conrad, Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino, Yarden by Kristian Lundberg, White Trash Nancy Isenberg. And two double macchiatos. More…
A farewell to Ursula K Le Guin 1929-2018
I woke this morning to sad news: Ursula K Le Guin has died. She was 88 says The Guardian. Earthsea The first of her books I read was A Wizard of Earthsea. I was perhaps 12 or 13. I heard someone read it aloud on BBC’s Jackanory then bought it for pocket money in the Puffin edition sometime in the early 70s. I went on to read The Tombs of Atuan and The Farthest Shore, the two other titles in the original Earthsea trilogy that were also available from Puffin. It wasn’t till I got to university in 1977, though, that I discovered she wrote SF as well as fantasy. Then I read The Left Hand of Darkness and The … More…
On Reading and the Art of Giving Up – Reading Diary #2
In this instalment of my Reading Diary: how to begin a book, how to give it a chance, why giving up is an option – and an analysis of one book I gave up on.
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Reading diary #1 – To Have and to Have Not
The first entry in my new reading diary. An explanation, and a discussion about having books and giving books away. Also a bit about print media contra electronic.
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