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Shane’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Shane’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Shane Richmond
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Norwich, The United Kingdom
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February 2010
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| Laurent Binet writes historical literary fiction with a comic, postmodern twist. This one is a murder mystery set in Renaissance Florence, with the artist Pontormo found stabbed in front of frescoes he’s worked on for years. Told through letters feat ...more | |
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| Palantir is the creepy tech company that helps militaries and police forces analyse data so they can get their targets. But even perfect data can tell a misleading story, and The Philosopher in the Valley offers a practical example. Author Michael St ...more | |
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The Devil and Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness and Obsession
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| I’ve enjoyed a couple of Grann’s full-length works but this is a collection of his magazine features, mostly written for the New Yorker. Inevitably, I enjoyed some more than others but there are some extraordinary stories here, particularly the story ...more | |
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| This Japanese murder mystery is more of a puzzle than a novel, with very little characterisation or action, and mostly consists of two guys trying to solve a 40-year-old series of murders. An artist, obsessed with astrology and alchemy, writes a biza ...more | |
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| This is the first book I’ve read by László Krasznahorkai, who won the Nobel Prize for Literature last year. It’s also his first novel. It’s the bleak, often darkly humorous story of the inhabitants of a decrepit village in communist Hungary who are i ...more | |
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| The NFL’s 1952 Dallas Texans were a team so badly run that they collapsed before finishing their first season. Texas racism was a major factor - the Texans, to their credit, refused to trade away their two black players - but they were also hampered ...more | |
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Shane
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Rob Lee's review
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich:
"TL,DR: Rock stars who command the adoration of thousands, sometimes feel like Hitler at Nuremberg. Rock stars like to provoke and say tasteless things to generate headlines.
Theres a pearl clutching undercurrent which runs throughout this book, that " Read more of this review » |
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Garth Jones's review
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This Ain't Rock 'n' Roll: Pop Music, the Swastika and the Third Reich:
"All your faves are way more problematic than you knew.
Suffers in the home stretch for absolutely dismissing the genocide in Palestine, with a solitary mention of Zionism and the complete dismissal of, say, Bobby Gillespie’s principled politics." Read more of this review » |
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