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Read a 19th Century of Books
The 'Century of Books' challenge was started by Simon over at Stuck in a Book. (I am also working to read a book for every year of the 20th century.) Continue reading →
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Read a 20th Century of Books
The 'Century of Books' challenge was started by Simon over at Stuck in a Book. (I am also working to read a book for every year of the 19th century.) Continue reading →
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Meet me in the Library…
So. You might have noticed a little tinkering here over the last couple of days and I just wanted to add a little housekeeping note about it. After a series of interesting comments and conversations...
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The Reading Legacy Terry Pratchett Left Me…
It's peculiar how memory shifts our perception of a writer. If I was asked directly which authors have shaped my thinking about the world, about words and creativity, about what books are 'for', Terry...
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Quote: Terry Pratchett – Tarlatane, A Lovely Brilliant Green
One of my favourite quotes from A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett that demonstrates his wide curiosity and magpie-like tendency to find interesting ideas everywhere... Continue reading →
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Review – Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error by Kathryn Schulz
--- One of the things I did last month to increase the number of science-y books by women in my reading pile (for this goal that I am working on) was go through my bookmarks looking for videos of...
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Quote: The Extremely Obscure Palinode
A fascinating little footnote from a recent read: 'Western culture has another mechanism for admitting mistakes, but its extreme obscurity only underscores the point that such devices are woefully...
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Quote: The Only Story There Is…
I hope this little anecdote is true too: 'There is a story (which is so lovely that I hope it's true, although I haven't been able to verify it) that someone once asked the South African writer J. M....
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Review – One Hundred Details by Kenneth Clark
Okay, so this is not so much a review as a sharing of treasure. :) I read four books by the art historian Kenneth Clark in December/January, and while I will write a proper review of Civilisation: A...
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Readerly Quirks: Introduction
Welcome to a new intermittent series of posts on the topic of Readerly Quirks. What do I mean by 'readerly quirk'? Well, anything about someone's approach to reading - book choices, reading practices,...
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Quote: The Filter Bubble and Democracy…
So, we've just had a General Election here in the UK. I keep my party political views to my Twitter stream but general politics and personal principles will always be part of the mix here so I want to...
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Review: All that is Solid by Danny Dorling
I'm not entirely sure, but I am, I think, one of Dorling's intended audience for his book, All that is Solid. Published in early 2014, it's an account of some of the issues causing, affecting and...
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A Week in Reading: Enchanted Chocolate Pots and Doodling
I'm recovering from a bit of a reading slump and have mostly been lost in Shakespeare's plays and studying. I guess you could say it was a tactical retreat from the depressing election result and the...
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