Tag: reading
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Warning: You Will Buy Books
People think Reddit is for lonely, fat trolls. It is. But it’s also home to some of the funniest, cleverest and most melancholy people I’ve ever come across. Yesterday I stumbled upon a thread about book pairings. It had never occurred to me to turn to Reddit for literary criticism, but these guys had me buying […]
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Read/Write
The brilliant thing about being a writer is that a large portion of your time must be spent reading. If you don’t like reading, you won’t be a writer – no more than a musical innocent would become a rock star (except maybe Oasis – I’ve always thought they sound like they don’t much like […]
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I Am Not a Scienceman
I’m reading a book about science. Cor, s’bit bloody hard. It’s A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson, so it’s as layman as thermodynamics and half-lives and relativity can be. But my brain just doesn’t bend that way. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: Bill Bryson is a genius with […]
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Biblioperambulation
I don’t know when I started reading while I walked. Probably when I began secondary school and suddenly had the dead time of a familiar route on my hands every day. Not a particularly scenic route, so no need for exalted appreciation of my surroundings: just dead time. In my house, dead time didn’t really […]
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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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