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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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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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Selected Poems In Flanders Fields – two reviews

4 October, 202121 November, 2018

A sort of review of Selected Poems of Robert Graves and In Flanders Fields, two books I’ve been reading in tandem since the weekedn fo 11th November 2018.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary

8 October, 202110 October, 2018

From Reality to Espedair Street – a reading diary covering the period from mid-August to the end of September 2018: 4 titles reviewed, 4 more touched on.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Somebody faraway nearby that I used to know

1 October, 202117 September, 2018

A book review of The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit and Somebody That I Used to Know by Wendy Mitchell, two books read in parallel.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry

6 December, 202115 August, 2018

From Dunstan to Apex – a reading diary entry with reviews of six or seven novels (depending how you count) and links to a half-a-dozen more.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Factfulness – things are better than you think – a book review

6 November, 20216 August, 2018

Factfulness: Ten reasons we’re wrong about the world – and why things are better than you think – an uplifting book in depressing times

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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Dunstan by Conn Iggulden – a review

17 September, 201923 July, 2018

Dunstan (2017) by Conn Iggulden, a review of the historical novel and some ruminating on the the workings of the creative imagination.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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I am reading The Lucky Galah and Händelser vid Vattnet

17 September, 201916 July, 2018

I am reading The Lucky Galah by Tracy Sorensen and Kerstin Ekman’s Händelser vid Vattnet. More on the joys of reading two very different books in tandem.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry

17 June, 202020 June, 2018

Reading on the rails – a reading diary entry with reviews of 3 novels and links to half-a-dozen more. Also more train references than anyone really needs.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reading diary, Reviews
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Burning Angels by Bear Grylls – a review

17 September, 201913 June, 2018

The last, long weekend in April I spent quite a lot of my reading time in the company of Bear Grylls and his adventure novel Burning Angels. Oh dear.

Categories At the Quill, Book Review, Reviews
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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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