With most books that I don’t enjoy, I can still appreciate the writing or see why other people might enjoy them - and just think this isn't for me for one reason or another. But now and then a book...
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My Struggle, Book 1 - Knausgård, Karl Ove Everyone is talking about these books lately, so I found My Struggle to be enjoyable but slightly overhyped. I wasn’t sure what to make of it at times; it's so incredibly pretentious in parts...
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After Dark - Haruki Murakami (Kindle) A short book that’s much more about mood than narrative. It’s like Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks brought to life. Mari goes from cafe to cafe, visits a Japanese Love Hotel, and meets various characters, during...
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I remember going through a stage of reading book after book and wondering why every single novelist writes in the exact same style. Now and then you might find someone with a slight lilt to their style (Kevin Barry springs...
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Glow is a mysterious new drug popping up on the rave scene in London. Raf has a rare disorder called non-24-hour-sleep-wake, and guards the transmitter of pirate radio station. Raf's friend has vanished. Urban Foxes are acting strange. And corporate...
continue readingConfirmed: When I stick to themes that I already know like I'm usually happy: New, fresh, contemporary, darkly comic, dysfunctional, character-based. Reconfirmed: When I try books everyone raves about, which I've a gut feeling aren't for me I'm nearly always disappointed:...
continue readingThe Circle is Google, Facebook, Apple and Twitter rolled into 1 and turned up to 11. It's a parody of social media and it's a parody of society in general. Or at least the portion of society that is addicted to...
continue readingThe Book I’ve been meaning to write this review for a while but the book is a Kindle Daily Deal today. So get it while it's cheap. The Movie I think sometimes, that people look in the wrong places for...
continue readingSome books really seem to narrow the gap between short stories, novellas, and novels. Take George Saunders’ Tenth of December, the off-kilter dystopian world these short stories are set in give it a combined narrative that makes it seem very...
continue readingThis audiobook was going cheap in an Audible sale. So I just nabbed it without looking into it much and got off to a bad start because I’d assumed it was about mental illness, and the whole style was so...
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