Tag Archives: books
Lord of the Rings Day
Happy Lord of the Rings Day. 🙂 About a week ago, I began rereading book 7 of the Malazan Book of the Fallen series. This followed my realisation earlier this year that I had somehow lost the ability to read … Continue reading
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Tagged books, epic fantasy, fiction, high fantasy, JRR Tolkien, Lord of the Rings, Lord of the Rings day, M John Harrison, Malazan Book of the Fallen, Reaper's Gale, Steven Erikson
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Books – 2022
Even as I whined about losing my reading habit, I managed to read a surprising (to me) number of books through 2022. One reason I think I didn’t notice is because very few of them started out being books I … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Christophe Jaffrelot, David Quammen, Jacques Ellul, monographs, Nambi Narayanan, nonfiction, reading habit, Viriconium
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Some good books I read recently
Since January 2020 Read Lady Death: The Memoirs of Stalin’s Sniper, Lyudmila Pavlichenko Every Creature Has a Story, Janaki Lenin The Writing Life, Annie Dillard Half-Life: The Divided Life of Bruno Pontecorvo, Physicist, Frank Close Shoes of the Dead, Kota … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Carmen Maria Machado, Diane Ackerman, fantasy fiction, Helen Lewis, Janaki Lenin, Kota Neelima, Neha Sinha, NK Jemisin
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A book on the Otherside
I walked into the bookshop. The first row of books had a label on it saying ‘Recommended’. I never touched those books. They were always too mainstream, and populism never read well. Instead, I was adept at finding books that … Continue reading
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Tagged books, Catch 22, Joanne Harris, Joseph Heller, literary critic, literature, reading, The Gospel of Loki
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