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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 Headstones through Time, These Days

4 October, 2023

A round-up of my reading this third quarter of 2023, from Ian Rankin’s A Heart Full of Headstones to Lucy Caldwell’s These Days.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Stephen King and the Stockholm Writers’ Festival

30 August, 2023

The middle weekend of August, I attended the Stockholm Writers’ Festival (SWF) for 2023. As luck would have it, I was at the same time reading my very first Stephen King book. The post I wrote from this happy confluence of events I published on the website of my writers’ group, Pens Around the World. … More…

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews, Writing diary
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Reading The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell by Gail Aldwin

26 July, 2023

A review of The Secret Life of Carolyn Russell, a parallell time mystery by Gail Aldwin, published by Bloodhound Books

Categories Book Review, Reviews
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From Londoners to The Incandescent Ones

12 July, 2023

A reading diary summing up the 14 titles I read in the 2nd quarter of the year, from Londoners to The Incandescent Ones, with reviews of some.

Categories Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review

23 March, 2023

A review of Coleen Hoover’s It Ends with Us – a romantic fiction about the complexity of emotional entanglements in abusive relationships.

Categories Book Review, 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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Most popular posts published in 2023

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It Ends with Us by Colleen Hoover – a review (March)
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Character building with Lajos Egri (May)
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You are you and that’s Okey! Photos from Stockholm (September)
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It’s the end of the world and X marks the spot (August)
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Juxtaposition and Creativity (May)

Most popular posts from earlier years

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Jamestown, Accra: walking through history with Collins and Lee (2020)
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The Gothenburg disco fire – 20 years on (2018)
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Antiques and memories (2015)
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Vai: across the South Pacific – a review (2020)
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The short summer night – a translation (2020)
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