Category: Wonderings
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Books Two and Three
I should have thought of this. Book two is obviously another Megan Abbott. Brilliant. I’ll read it though. I didn’t hate the cheerleaders, it was just a bit try-hard is all. So we have book two, The End of Everything, and book three, The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd. Pretty different. The first…
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Slow Writing for a Slow Friday
It wasn’t just a book; it wasn’t like any book I’d seen before, anyway. The secret (if you could call it that) was a short line of writing on the inside back cover, under the flyleaf. Lifting the stiff, faded paper, you could see the faint scrawl and just make out what it said. Go…
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Read Me
I bought a book called Read Me. I’ve read a bit of it, and looked at some of the pictures too. It’s making me happy, and do you know why? It is the voice of the copywriter, pretentious but mindfully so. That’s the best pretension: I know I sound like a bit of a douche saying this but that…
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A Piece from the Archives
This is something I wrote a long time ago, that never got used. So I thought I’d give it a home here. Bear in mind that after two years, some things may have changed. The links still work though! Too smart for your own good? The perils of overdesign Remember when the epitome of online…
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