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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Tag: books
Wakey wakey
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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