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Some of the books I’ve read this year

30 December, 201830 December, 2018 James ForemanBooks

Lately, I’ve been less than assiduous at writing up all the books that I’ve read this year. In an attempt to catch up before the end of the year, here’s a short list of them:

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Wakey wakey

28 October, 2018 James ForemanFamily

I was up at 5 this morning, unable to sleep. I got up and went to the toilet, sure I was being quiet, only for La Serpiente to intercept me in the living room after[…]

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Books I read in 2017

31 December, 20171 January, 2018 James ForemanBooks

I read 35 books this year (reviewed here, except for A Horse Walks Into A Bar, a “serious portrait of a shocking stand-up” that I found atrocious and pointless). This was a slight disappointment to[…]

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Cold days

30 December, 2016 James ForemanResolutions

This morning, still feeling tired, I forced myself to go for a run; one that turned out to be quite tough. I then made life harder for myself by going to work in shorts –[…]

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Men Love Pies, Girls Like Hummus

11 June, 201612 June, 2016 James ForemanCooking

Today I baked a cake from Men Love Pies, Girls Like Hummus, a cookery book I borrowed from the library solely on the strength of its title. I borrowed three books: one by Gordon Ramsay[…]

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Special delivery

29 April, 2016 James ForemanNothing Much In Particular

I was out late at a work function today, which meant I didn’t get home until after eight o’clock, hardly playing the part of the dutiful son or father. My parents flew in today via[…]

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Dirt Candy

12 April, 2016 James ForemanCooking

Last week when we went to the library, my wife picked up Dirt Candy, a cookbook from a fashionable New York vegetable restaurant. (Note that it’s a vegetable restaurant and not a vegetarian restaurant, as[…]

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What I learned this week

1 November, 20152 November, 2015 James ForemanWhat Did I Learn

My phone is trying to tell me something. Or get me into trouble. Look at what happens if I try to tell my wife that I’m having a shitstorm at work: I’m not sure if[…]

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Parasites Like Us

14 October, 2015 James ForemanReading

I finished Parasites Like Us at fifteen minutes past midnight this morning, and, after reading a book where the whole world perishes from some kind of bird/swine flu, in some show of irony I now[…]

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Things I learned this weekend

4 October, 2015 James ForemanReading

I’m trying to be more structured about what I post, so today I thought I’d write up what the key things were that I think I learned this weekend – read on for something about[…]

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