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Sundry weekend reading: Eco, historical fiction, realism snobbery
I used to have no weekends. I had two days off, one weekday and one weekend day, and I loved it. There wasn’t enough time to get away from it all, I could visit almost entirely empty museums, and it...
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PKD’s Exegesis: it begins
I am about a month behind in the Exegesis read along, but I still want to post some thoughts. You can see my intro post about it here. The first fifty pages (and to be honest, I feel the pattern will...
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Readings: John Wray
Last week was pretty damn trying, both personally and work-wise. Routine disruption made it even worse. There were a couple of days where things I usually do at certain time of the day did not get...
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Readings: Álvaro Enrigue
Alvaro Enrigue’s Sudden Death is one of the strangest and best books I’ve ever read. It is a book from which I need to recover. The urge to go on vacation just so I can digest is quite strong. The book...
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Readings: Lavie Tidhar
I could tell you that A Man Lies Dreaming by Lavie Tidhar is a pulpy and visceral alternate history noir revenge fantasy, but no blurb can adequately describe what this book is. You can’t talk about it...
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Readings: Olivia Laing on loneliness
I am about to move out of the house I share with three other people into a place where it’s going to be just me. I am excited at the prospect but also fearful because for the first time in my life it...
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Readings: Vowell, Liu
Personal kerfuffle in my life still has not settled, and so there was little time for reading and writing, and even things like Twitter and other social interaction have fallen by the wayside. I need...
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I try to pack my books almost blindly, so that the eye does not stop and the mind does not all of a sudden decide that this particular book is the one I should be reading right now, only to repeat the...
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Readings: Hill, Faye
Now that I have moved and unpacked all my things, I am trying to get back into some sort of a routine. It’s harder than I thought it would be; for several days I could not even remember what things I...
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Readings: Bakewell, Aziz
I feel like I am finally getting my life back. Might even go running today, if all goes well. After fairly reading-deprived March, I now seem to be devouring books at a steady clip. I have belatedly...
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