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a wizard of earthsea / ursula le guin (1968)
I like to read fantasy from time to time, and people I spoke to about fantasy were always surprised that I hadn’t read any Ursula le Guin. And apart from her short story The Ones who Walk away from...
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Delta of Venus / Anaïs Nin
Though the picture above is so genteel, what with the nice succulent and all, there is going to be some explicit language below because this book is all about sex. I wiggle my eyebrows at you in...
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The Blue Room / George Simenon
My first introduction to Georges Simenon was a Paris Review interview; I usually avoid these long, intimate and revealing pieces, as they’re guaranteed to make me chase the works of the profiled...
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Beauty and Sadness / Yasunari Kawabata
Sooooo, another book about old men having sex with young girls. Another solipsistic paedophile. How awkward. Beauty and Sadness opens with Oki Toshio, a writer now in his fifties, taking a trip to...
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the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request...
having selected the book by georges perec called the art and craft of approaching your head of department to submit a request for a raise to read you are faced with a dilemma or if you like an...
View ArticleLibrary book clearinghouse, Part II
I have been getting right into the library over the past couple of months. We might be moving house in a while so I’ve been trying not to accumulate more books for the moment. Honestly, I think my...
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