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‘Flesh’ by David Szalay.

I like this novel. I’m still not sure whether the protagonist is a calculating asshole, or a naive guy to who most stuff just happens. Or a bit of both.

Well-written too. I love such concise language.

https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/features/an-extract-from-flesh-by-david-szalay

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An extract from Flesh by David Szalay | The Booker Prizes

‘He tries to work out if his friend is telling the truth or if he’s lying. Though he would prefer him to be lying, he thinks that he’s probably telling the truth’

Just finished ‘The Unfolding of Language’ by Guy Deutscher.

I love it.

I’ve learnt loads about the structure of language.

E.g.:

In most languages it’s easy to turn a noun into a verb: ‘Alice skins a cow’.
But turning a verb into a noun often requires adding letters: ‘move’ - ‘movement’. Or in Dutch: ‘bewegen’ - ‘beweging’.

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Wendy Palmer

Wendy Palmer lives in Bridgetown, Western Australia with her partner, son, dogs, goats, alpacas, bees and chickens. She's patted tigers, ridden elephants, dog-sledded across glaciers, faced down lions in the Serengeti, swum with whale sharks, and camped in the Sahara, but she not-so-secretly prefers curling up with a good book. She writes fantasy fiction with entertaining characters, enjoyably perilous adventures, romantic entanglements, some dark undertones, but always happy, hopeful endings.

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Sam Leith, ‘You Talkin' to Me? Rhetoric from Aristotle to Obama’ (Profile Books, 2011)

I had great fun reading this. I learnt a lot too. I also admit that the book is somewhat nerdy.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/oct/13/you-talkin-sam-leith-review #books #holidayreading

You Talkin' to Me? by Sam Leith – review

Charlotte Higgins is entertained by a history of clever speaking from Aristotle to Obama

The Guardian

Huh?

In ancient Athens: 'it was a rare citizen who did not go to court at least a half a dozen times during the course of his adult life'.

From Sam Leith, ‘You talkin to me?’.

He quotes Edward P. J. Corbett and Robert J. Connors, Classical Rhetoric for the Modern Student (4th edn, Oxford University Press, 1999)

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‘Invisible helix’, by Keigo Higashino. Great Japanese detective novel. I’m a fan of his books in general. I can’t assess the Japanese, but in the English translation I love the simple and concise writing style. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keigo_Higashino #books #holidayreading #japan
Keigo Higashino - Wikipedia

‘The Proof of My Innocence’, by Jonathan Coe

Good novel. Quite funny sometimes, and well-written. Partly set during the brief period in which Liz Truss was prime minister of the UK.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/nov/12/the-proof-of-my-innocence-by-jonathan-coe-review-truss-era-satire-wrapped-in-a-caper

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The Proof of My Innocence by Jonathan Coe review – a blue murder mystery

Set during Liz Truss’s premiership, Coe’s multilayered study of how things quickly fell apart is a whodunnit with a villain hiding in plain sight

The Guardian