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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
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Richard Newton
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Learning to be choosy!
A good friend of my recently bought me a year’s subscription to the Literary Review. For anyone who does not know this magazine, it’s published monthly in English and contains a series of fairly detailed reviews of recently published books. There is a bit more to the magazine than that, but 90%+ is book reviews.
There seem to be no specific genres it focuses on. In my first month’s edition there a Read more of this blog post »
There seem to be no specific genres it focuses on. In my first month’s edition there a Read more of this blog post »
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is starting The Tale of Genji: Just starting out. I read this ago, and to be honest found it dull. Possibly the cultural gap was too great. I am a (tiny) bit better educated about Japan and its history - and this is referenced so often that I thought I’d give it another try. Whether I will manage the 1100+ pages remains to be seen.
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Great review. I thought of the comparison to Pynchon as well, an accessible form of Pynchon’s writing.
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is on page 556 of 827 of Underworld: A race to the end - a practical challenge, i am travelling next week and don’t want to be lugging an 800+ page book around, especially if I have only the last part of the book to read. Still so far a compulsive read so I should get there.
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| I read this book the first time some years ago, perhaps as much as 25 years ago. Then I absolutely loved it. The humour with serious undercurrents, the bizarre scenes, the satire on then soviet culture and so on. I came back to it with high expectati ...more | |
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Anja wrote: "Dear Richard,we've just put out another collaboration of Carlos Atanes and Jan van Rijn, "Rhino Head", exploring the realms of eroticism and magical realism, with an introduction by John Coulthar..." Hi Anja, sorry for the slow response - yes I'll happily have a copy. I am though a bad reader of books in e formats, which I guess this will be. I'll try my best to read it promptly, but no promises.
Dear Richard,we've just put out another collaboration of Carlos Atanes and Jan van Rijn, "Rhino Head", exploring the realms of eroticism and magical realism, with an introduction by John Coulthart.
(See here on Goodreads)
Would you be interested in receiving a free limited preview copy? Let us know.
Looking forward to hearing from you!
All the best,
Anja / kraut & rubies
Thanks Richard, look forward to more of your reviews.
Hi Richard, I´m happy to welcome you on board. There are some great works I would never venture into reviewing but I do appreciate the people who do.
Looking forward to see what you will be reading.
Brgds Jacob
