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Wednesday, 30 April 2014

Addressing the High/Low bullshit

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There's been a lot of talk lately about the difference between high and low fiction, between commercial and literary fiction, or literar...
Friday, 25 April 2014

What I've been reading: Jamaica Inn

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Cue the drumroll, dim the lights as I say with tears in my eyes that this week I have managed to read a grand total of one novel. Also, ex...
Friday, 18 April 2014

What I've been reading: The Polish Boxer, MaddAddam, The Sign of the Four

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It's been so long since I've read any Literary fiction that I wasn't sure how to respond to The Polish Boxer. What's more, i...
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Wednesday, 16 April 2014

Songs of Kali: Orientalism, post-colonialism and the Calcutta Chromosone.

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This is one of those articles I feel a bit weird writing, the sort of thing I worry when I approach. After all, I'm white. Okay, sure,...
Friday, 11 April 2014

What I've been reading: The Casual Vacancy and The Big Sleep

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Down to business, then. I really didn't expect to like J.K Rowling's The Casual Vacancy. Having heard mixed things I was expecting...
Wednesday, 2 April 2014

What I've been reading: Fearless, Gentlemen and Ladies, and Namesake

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As I write this, I'm looking at my 'just read' pile with an element of horror because it appears it's taken me almost seven ...
Wednesday, 19 March 2014

What I've been reading: The Calcutta Chromosone, The Ghost Hunters, The Resurrectionist

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I seem to have been having something of a 'horror' bent lately. Hooray!Less worthy of celebration is that my reading speed appears t...