Read: The Grave Tattoo by Val McDermid ★★★☆☆
I enjoyed the Wordsworth, The Mutiny on the Bounty and Lake District background more than the actual plot.
Reads
reading a book, magazine, newspaper, other physical document, or online post
Read: The Beloved Children by Tina Jackson 📚
Read: The Beloved Children by Tina Jackson ★★★★☆ engaging tale of theatre & show people. 📚
Read: Summerwater by Sarah Moss ★★★★★ 📚
Read: Summerwater by Sarah Moss ★★★★★ 📚 I love the way you are taken into the character’s heads. Feels very real to me.
My younger sister, she was in seventh grade, had written a little report about Pablo Neruda. So, I took her school report and turned it into the Wikipedia article on Pablo Neruda.
Britta Gustafson quoted in An Oral History of Wikipedia, the Web’s Encyclopedia by Tom Roston
via: John Naughton Wednesday 20 January, 2021 – Memex 1.1
Really interesting article about the rise of Wikipedia.
Read The Heavens by Sandra Newman ★★★★☆ 📚
Read The Heavens by Sandra Newman ★★★★☆
Time travel in dreams, madness, an unstable ‘present’, lots of fun. 📚
First book I’ve finished this year.
Read: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi
Read: Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi ★★★★☆The damage parents(mothers in this case) do. There isn’t any redemption or reconciliation as the mother drops into dementia.
Walliams ... alone accounted for 14.4% of HarperCollins’ £133m revenue last year, and singlehandedly sold a third of the top 50 children’s books of the year: 2.4m copies from 11 books, compared to 4.7m between the rest.
Interesting read on the children’s book market. The point that children do not usually choose their books, parents do, reminds me of the idea most men’s books are Christmas presents.
Most of the books I read are ones my wife has read. This is not at all a bad thing.
Read: Expectation by Anna Hope
Read: Expectation by Anna Hope ★★★★☆ surprised that this feminist, to an extent, literary fiction kept me reading page turner. 📚
Read: Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor
Read: Shadowplay by Joseph O’Connor ★★★★☆ lots of fun with the life of Bram Stoker. Told through fragments of notes, letters and memories. Some nice opacity, hints and the odd ghost.
Read Magpie Lane
Read Magpie Lane by Lucy Atkins ★★★☆☆ pretty twisted tale with an increasingly suspect unreliable narrator. Tense & queasy.