This is a collection of posts about books. When I collated these there were a lot more posts than I realised!
Books of the Month and other reviews
In 2023 I started blogging a book of the month. (I didn't manage it every month, but here are my reviews)
February 2024: Independent Nation: Should Wales Leave the UK? by Will Hayward
January 2024 - Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
November 2023 - Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
October 2023 - On 1984 by DJ Taylor AND Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell
September 2023 - Unfollow by Megan Phelps-Roper
March 2023 - The Grieving Brain by Mary Frances O'Connor
January 2023 - The Age of Earthquakes by Shumon Basar, Douglas Coupland and Hans Ulrich Obrist
Selected book reviews from before 2023...
February 2020 - The Roman Cult of Mithras by Manfred Clauss
All the Books I Read in 2016 wrapped up in one post
August 2016 - Godless Morality by Richard Holloway
March 2016 - Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy (spoiler: I really, really disliked the character of Anna Karenina and made no attempt to hide it in this post!)
The non-fiction books I read in 2015
Most of the fiction books I read in 2015
January 2013 - The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas by John Boyne
September 2012 - Two Books About Myths (Ragnarok by AS Byatt and The Good Man Jesus and the Scoundrel Christ by Philip Pullman)
November 2010 - The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg Larsson
September 2010 - The Children's Book by A.S.Byatt
Other posts about books
Mining the myths - modern takes on the Norse pantheon [2021]
Categorising "speculative fiction" [2022] - some thoughts on the genre
In Search of Salinger [2011] - when I got a bit obsessed with JD Salinger; this post also includes a discussion of Surface Detail by Iain M. Banks
Books where characters go exploring ruins [2016] - specifically, The Lord of the Rings and The Magicians Nephew
Telegraphed Plot Twists [2008] - another post that references Iain M. Banks
My Five Star Books [2013] - the books I thought were worthy of 5 stars between 2002 and 2013
More Five Star Books [2016]
Read just how much I hated Anna Karenina [2016]
Some church history books aimed at kids annoyed me [2016]
Bookshelf juxtapositions [2021] - a silly post
An older bookshelf juxtaposition [2010] - another silly post
George Orwell
George Orwell's gifts to the English lexicon [2007]
An excerpt from Burmese Days by George Orwell that I found hilarious [2016]
On 1984 by DJ Taylor and Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell [2023]
Douglas Coupland
The six novels by Douglas Coupland that I read in 2015
Extracts from Life After God by Douglas Coupland [2015]
The machine future according to Douglas Coupland [2021]
"Smupidity" - another idea from Douglas Coupland [2021]
The Age of Earthquakes [2023]
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