In which I write reviews of the two books I finished in the past few days. Wangs and stolen manuscripts feature!

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Book review: The Adventures of Christian Rosy Cross and Yellowface

WHOOMP! HERE I AM. In an attempt to not spend months between posts, here’s some reviews of books I finished in the past couple of days. They’re both a bit … well, me-ish … b…

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Book review: Crossing the Line

Crossing the Line: The Inside Story of Murder, Lies and a Fallen Hero by Nick McKenzie.My rating: four stars I’m not going to lie: I’m reading this for different reasons (and have proba…

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Book reviews: Plows and Cactus Boots

Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (tr. Antonia Lloyd-Jones).My rating: five stars I really don’t want to say too much about this book. Because I feel that to say to…

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Book review: Gibbons and Dubliners

Gibbons, or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison.My rating: four stars There’s a bit of trepidation I feel in reviewing this one, as its author, a noted issuer of lamentations abo…

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Book review: Shutting Out the Sun

Shutting Out the Sun: How Japan Generated its Own Lost Generation by Michael Zielenziger.My rating: three stars Japan is a country that’s had a Bit Of A Time. At the end of WWII is was bombed…

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Book review: The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe

The Guesthouse at the Sign of the Teetering Globe by Franziska zu Reventlow and James J. Conway (tr).My rating: four stars Franziska zu Reventlow isn’t anyone I’d heard of before, but s…

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Review chunks

Once again, it’s been a while since I wrote. Call it life. Call it work deadlines. Call it the second round of COVID-19 I’ve had this year. Regardless, slackness ensurs and so now I&#82…

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Quick reviews before the year (and the world?) ends

So it’s the end of the year and I’m convinced that I won’t read any more books in 2023. Sad, but it has to be called at some point I guess. Anyway, let’s get this final-revi…

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@captainfez I think PLOW is in the running for my book of the year, unless I stumble upon something even greater/darker/excellently-crafted-weirder.