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Matt’s 2024 Year in Books
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Matt Kelland
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| I should have enjoyed this, but I didn't. Yes, somewhere in there is a decent story about a sailor who becomes a successful writer, but I found it tedious and trite. Over and over again, London just tells us how everyone feels, interspersed with long ...more | |
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| Enjoyed this a lot. Cozy fantasy set in the silent movie era, with a sentient Baba Yaga hut and a sentient sourdough starter, featuring Agatha Christie and Anastasia. Very much my cup of tea. And I was glad to see that it didn't end on a cliffhanger: ...more | |
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| DNF. I think I've just had enough of London now. These felt very formulaic and dashed out, filled with dated language and attitudes, and I wasn't enjoying them, so I stopped. ...more | |
"Hill writes another masterpiece!
I didn't get this finished before the pub date, so I will keep this brief. Excellent character arcs, even if some of them are painful. Great mix of realistic and fantasy elements, in a way that is all his own but also" Read more of this review » |
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| There were some aspects of this I liked: the unreliable first person narrator was interesting, especially in the way that he was very clear that he was making some things up, and that they weren't necessarily strictly accurate. He was a deeply flawed ...more | |
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| Another underdog tale from London, based on a true story. Interesting to compare it with the account by Pi'ilani, Ko'olau's wife, and the movie The Wind and the Reckoning. London's distaste for lepers is uncomfortable reading, but he still manages to ...more | |
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Not as good as I remember it. It's always been my least favorite Dion Fortune, and I think I know why. It's very academic and analytical: she treats her characters like psychoanalytical subjects, and has them talk like something out of a textbook. An ...more |
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“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something”
― Information Anxiety 2
― Information Anxiety 2
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.”
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