27.9.26

Madame Bovary

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Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert My rating: 3 of 5 stars This maybe a basic opinion but it is hard to enjoy a book where there is no one...
23.9.26

Persuasion

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Persuasion by Jane Austen My rating: 5 of 5 stars When I read this in school I felt frustrated by the propriety which delayed the reconci...
29.7.26

The Fall of Hyperion

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The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book is best enjoyed when you accept that the central figure of the Shri...
22.5.26

The Canterbury Tales

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The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer My rating: 4 of 5 stars I couldn’t hack the original Middle English and settled for the Coghill ...
19.4.26

Perhaps the Stars (Terra Ignota #4)

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Perhaps the Stars by Ada Palmer My rating: 3 of 5 stars The trolley problem argument at the forefront of the series thus far is now super...
25.2.26

Jacques the Fatalist

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Jacques the Fatalist by Denis Diderot My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book is structured around the tension between determinism and free wil...
31.12.25

Favourite music of 2025

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Traxx Tracey feat. Riko Dan - 'Sex Life' Fcukers - 'Play Me' Facta - 'BDB' SSSLIP - 'Brek Stance' Bodhi - ...

My year in books

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Once again happy new year to all but particularly the Alzabo Soup podcast for their monthly book club read-along, which I dipped in and out...
31.12.24

My year in books

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Happy new year to all but particularly to the Alzabo Soup podcast  for running a mammoth Shakespeare / Renaissance English plays readalong i...