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What I’ve been reading lately, part 42

Career of Evil — Robert Galbraith A re-read of the first Galbraith that I read. Rowling (for it is she) remains as compellingly readable as always. Definitely worth reading. My original comments...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 43

The Constant Rabbit — Jasper Fforde This is a novel that tries to get to grips with how things would actually work if there were anthropomorphic rabbits of the kind that turn up in fiction from Alice...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 44

Made in America — Bill Bryson The USA-specific counterpart to Bryson’s celebration of the English language, Mother Tongue, it’s about twice as long as the original volume because it also contains an...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 45

Lead — John Greenway, Andy Blacknell and Andy Coombe This the densest and most economical business leadership I have come across. It’s a genre I am not particularly drawn to, and which is ripe for...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 46

Blackout (Sam Archer book 3) — Tom Barber Mastodon A workaday action novel about a counter-terrorism agent and his colleagues surviving a revenge attempt from a group of Albanian terrorists, number 3...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 47

Fake Law: the Truth about Justice in an Age of Lies — the Secret Barrister A serious and depressing book about how the criminal justice system works — or, more often, does not work — in the UK. The...

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What I’ve been listening to in 2022

Here is a YouTube playlist of my now-traditional top-ten list of the albums I’ve listened to the most in the previous calendar year. (See this list of previous entries.) I listen much more to whole...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 48

The Liar’s Dictionary — Eley Williams A book published prematurely, I think. There is an intriguing double premise, with a modern-day story of a young woman working for a traditional dictionary...

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Nine films in nine days

My wife’s been away for the last week, on holiday with my mum in Spain. That’s left me alone in the house, since all three boys have left home in various directions over the last few years. (The eldest...

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What I’ve been reading lately, part 49

By the Pricking of my Thumbs — Agatha Christie I’ve always had a strange affection for Tommy and Tuppence, Christie’s couple of amateur detective who appear in five books spanning 55 years from 1922 to...

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