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30 Days – Day #14: A non-Fictional Book

December 14th, 2009 No Comments

Oh, all right, I’ll play along this time. We can’t all be expected to speak English good, and god knows I’ve made far more egregious typos in my time.
I havered about what to write about here, though. I probably own more non-fiction than fiction, as long as we discount the comics, and are a [...]

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30 Days – Day #4: My Favourite Book

December 4th, 2009 No Comments

I’m going to be really quite glad when this “favourite” slew of topics is done, because I am a fully rounded human being, and have trouble with this sort of pick-one nonsense.
On the bright side, though, I am not a well-read man. Oh, I’ve read a lot of books, but I’m not well read. [...]

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A Commercial Interlude

January 16th, 2009 No Comments

For some years now, my friend Lee “Budgie” Barnett has been running an ongoing writing challenge on his blog, and producing some truly excellent pieces of short fiction as a result. He has finally collected the results into a book format, available for £6.50, which I believe works out at around ten of your [...]

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Invisible Cities

December 3rd, 2006 No Comments

I have spent the last several days reading, and falling head over heels in love with “Invisible Cities” by Italo Calvino. There is absolutely nothing I don’t love about this book. The concept, the execution (I adore the form of the short monologue), the language and rhythm are absolutely sublime things, but past all that, [...]

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