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Alan’s 2025 Year in Books
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Alan Sharp
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A Grim Almanac of York
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2015
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6 editions
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A Grim Almanac of Edinburgh & the Lothians
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2009
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Jack the Ripper and the Irish Press
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| After reinventing the gumshoe novel in his best known work, New York Trilogy, for his next book Auster turned his eye to doing something similar for the dystopian genre. The result, as is typical for Auster, is both gripping and frustrating in just a ...more | |
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As a huge fan of Octavia Butler, I have to admit that I really wanted to like this book more than I did. Published about a year before her death, the concept is innovative, but the execution doesn’t quite work as well as it should. The novel begins wi ...more |
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| One of my favourite Simpson’s moments is when Mr Burns wants to make a hagiographic movie of his life and tells Smithers “bring me Steven Spielberg”. Smithers says “I think Mr Spielberg might be quite expensive” and he replies “then bring me his Mexi ...more | |
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| When Dickens’ hand written original manuscript for Martin Chuzzlewit is stolen from a museum, the case is given to crack literary detective Thursday Next. The investigation leads her into conflict with her former mentor turned supervillain Acheron Ha ...more | |
“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ”
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