Posts Tagged with ‘books’
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Absolute Nightmare
29 Aug 2011There’s a long tradition among Western writers of lionising ancient ways of life, as if there’s something better about giving…
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Ev’rybody Wants to Be a Cat
01 Aug 2011I don’t like procedurals. Put CSI Whatever on the TV, I’ll yawn. The Mentalist or Lie to Me, I’ll yell…
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The Smell of Reeves and Worcester
29 May 2011One of the more fun stories from The Shadow Conspiracy II was Chris Dolley‘s Wodehousian pastiche, What Ho! Automaton –…
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Eat Your Heart Out De Selby
22 Apr 2011Could I have approached a book with more trepidation? From a publishing house that seems to specialise in Buddhist philosophy,…
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Fresh Steamed Soul
18 Mar 2011Steampunk. Ooo-kay. An anthology. Riiiight. A self publishing co-operative. Hmmm Soul-transfer. Oh God no. This could have been so bad.…
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“This is the Big Society. You see it must be big, to contain so many volunteers.”
14 Feb 2011“Leave the libraries alone. You don’t know the value of what you’re looking after. It is too precious to destroy.”…
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August Reading
03 Sep 2010The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. According to Banned in the USA by Herbert N. Foerstel this is…
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July Reading
05 Aug 2010This Gaming Life: Travels in Three Cities by Jim Rossignol. A whistle stop tour of gaming culture which avoids the…
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Big Read
01 Mar 2009Image by jakebouma via Flickr How many of the BBC Big Read books have you read? Instructions: Look at the…
