Readings & watchings 11

Posted on January 10, 2011 by iansales

It’s time for the last report of 2010 from the coalfaces down the side-tunnels of the mine that is popular culture. You know the drill (see what I did there?): these are the books wot I read, these are the films wot I watched… Books number9dream, David Mitchell (2001), is Mitchell’s second novel. It’s set [...]

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Readings and watchings 10

Posted on November 12, 2010 by iansales

It’s been a month since the last one, so here goes: Books Interstellar Empire, John Brunner (1976), is a fix-up of three novellas from 1953, 1958 and 1965. They’re juvenilia and it shows. For a start, it’s “enslaved”, not “slavered”. Gah. And despite being set in a post-collapse galactic empire, everyone talks like comedy barbarians. [...]

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Readings & watchings 9

Posted on October 10, 2010 by iansales

Apologies for the delay since the last one of these. I’ve posted a number of reviews of individual books to this blog over the past few weeks, but they haven’t been all I’ve read during that time. Here’s all of them – with the links to the aforementioned reviews where appropriate, of course. And there’s [...]

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Readings & watchings 8

Posted on August 24, 2010 by iansales

July felt like a month of molasses – everything seemed a bit of a struggle. I thought I hadn’t read as much as usual, nor written as much. And yet, looking back, I seem to have read as many books as I typically do in a month. Perhaps I wasn’t exactly prolific on the writing-front [...]

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