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Book Review

This book review page collects all the blog posts I have categorised as book reviews.

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From Fortune Birds to Treacle Future

7 September, 2022

At last, a reading diary entry that stretches over six months and reaches from The Fortune Men to the Ministry for the Future

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love

26 January, 2022

A review of Many Different Kinds of Love by Michael Rosen and some observations on the political situation in Britain at the time of writing.

Categories Book Review, Reviews
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Call it Huxley in a Comedy of Manners

14 August, 202111 August, 2021

A reading diary entry reviewing This Much Huxley Knows, Kalla det vad fan du vill and Love in a Cold Climate and presenting them as Comedies of Manners.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo

20 May, 2021

Jana Kippo is the protagonist of a recent successful trilogy of novels in Swedish by Karin Smirnoff. I ponder, and try my hand at translating.

Categories Articulations, Book Review, Translation
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In Flight from the Cider House Rules

5 May, 2021

In Flight is a personal review of The Cider House Rules by John Irving and Flights by Olga Tokarczuk (translated by Jennifer Croft).

Categories Book Review, Reviews
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Visiting imaginary places in the realms of fantasy

7 April, 2021

Imaginary places are pretty much the only places one can visit at present and The Dictionary of Imaginary Places is a great place to start.

Categories Book Review, Stops and Stories
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A Mediterranean Quintet: Call Me to A Village

25 March, 202124 March, 2021

A Mediterranean quintet of books, and a few more. A reading diary round-up of the books I completed in the first 8 weeks or so of 2021.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Strategies strained and tactics dodgy: a reading diary

21 January, 202120 January, 2021

Strategies and tactics I employed to keep my reading resolution last year – and a review of some of the books I read in the last quarter of 2020

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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The successfully organised and bulleted writer

25 December, 202023 December, 2020

Successfully organised and bulleted- that’s how I feel now at the end of 2020, thanks to The Bullet Journal Method and The Organised Writer.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews, Writing diary
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall

5 July, 202112 August, 2020

Bring up the Bodies from Wolf Hall: a discussion of point of view in Hilary Mantel’s fantastic trilogy, and a discussion of character names.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review
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Most popular posts published in 2022

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Michael Rosen and Many Different Kinds of Love (January)
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Writing a wreath – adventures in poetry (February)
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Bruce and the Spider – writing resolutions in 2022 (January)
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Impressions from the SWF22 (August)
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Return to Tema: the search for house and school (March)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Liminal places: on the threshold – a reading diary (2021)
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Thinking how to translate Jana Kippo (2021)
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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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Bringing up the Bodies from Wolf Hall (2020)
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Curse words we all use – but less often nowadays (2021)
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A couple of days in Maastricht (2016)
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