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Monday, 3 December 2012

What the Dickens?

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I have a feeling I've written before about missing the fucking point. Surely it must have come up, at least once in this blog, that far...
Wednesday, 10 October 2012

Review: Susan Hill, The Various Haunts of Men: Pulling Punches and Killing the Spare.

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It's very rare for a book to make me cry. It's very rare for something even to come close. Same goes for films, television, ...
Sunday, 30 September 2012

Review: Varney the Vampyre, or The Feast of Blood

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So that's that, then. For those who have followed me on my epic, twitter sarcasm spree, I stand before you, the only person living who ...
Saturday, 8 September 2012

Boneland: Alan Garner

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I would be lying if I were to say this were a review. This, I promise, is true: Last time I read The Alderley Books, I had an idea for a s...
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Wednesday, 5 September 2012

Female characters: What is strong?

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So, another year rolls round, and there is another best-selling book, read mainly by women, that we are getting told off for enjoying 1 . T...
Wednesday, 8 August 2012

More Fun and Games with Sir Francis Varney

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The vampyre and the plot device or Some thoughts on starting Chapter 105 of Varney, The Vampyre after having spent a bit too long readi...
Monday, 30 July 2012

Review: The Prisoner of Heaven - Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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Let's start this blog post with a lie and say that it's not very often that there is a book I'm actually so excited about I will...