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Literature

  1. My Book Life, Revisited

    17 December, 2006: Back in July I let you know of my res­o­lu­tion to read, dur­ing 2006, an aver­age of one book per week. At the time I was already six books behind sched­ule but I was con­fi­dent that I was going to man­age it. Now though, with just two weeks of the year to go and my count at 40, I’m [...]

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  2. Riddley Walker

    3 September, 2006: As part of my (actu­ally now-floundering) attempt to read an aver­age of one book per week, I’ve been spread­ing my read­ing about, tak­ing in books by authors who I feel I ought to have read but haven’t (Hem­ming­way, Greene), trans­lated lit­er­a­ture by foriegn authors I’ve never heard of (Calvino, Gutiér­rez) and cur­rent pop­u­lar fic­tion (Safran-Foer, Nif­f­eneg­ger). There’s [...]

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  3. My Book Life

    30 July, 2006: I’m not usu­ally one for New Year res­o­lu­tions, but this year I made one that I told nobody about in case I spec­tac­tu­larly failed; my res­o­lu­tion was to have read, by the end of the year, an aver­age of one book per week. So far, 30 weeks into the year, I’ve read 24, so, while I have a lit­tle catch­ing [...]

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  4. Pratchett Plays it Safe

    4 December, 2005: There was a time when I was such a Pratch­ett fan that I even went to a Dis­c­world Con­ven­tion; after his last few books, it seems those times are past. The cur­rent Dis­c­world novel, Thud!, was the first one I failed to fin­ish, and I actu­ally returned it to the shop to get a refund. It wasn’t bad, it just wasn’t any­thing I hadn’t [...]

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  5. The Mao of Harry Potter

    18 July, 2005: This week­end was nice in that it didn’t exist. It crept up on me as I sus­pected that it was the week­end of the 23rd, so I was fairly pleased when I dis­cov­ered that a week­end of the 16th even existed. It was a free week­end, one that I hadn’t planned or bud­geted for.

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  6. Magazines

    30 June, 2004: Prompted by the fold­ing of style mag­a­zine The Face, Simon Col­li­son at collylogic.com writes an arti­cle enti­tled “The Monthly Style Mag­a­zine – R.I.P”

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  7. The NME

    29 June, 2004: Buy an issue of The NME. It could be the current issue, or a recent issue. Start at page one, and read your way through it.

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