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  • Visible Misery

    I’m going to begin with a massive generalisation which oversimplifies things far too much, but does at least save time, and we’re all busy, right? Here goes: Americans love visible misery, whereas British people are the exact opposite. Examples of this: the old joke about a Brit who goes to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting on […]

  • The Churn

    I really do seem to be going through a lot of books at the moment. This is what happens when you aren’t training for a marathon and the kids are fairly docile: there’s lots of extra time. I’m halfway through The Dirtiest Race In History, an account of the 1988 100 metres at the Seoul […]

  • Abaddon’s Gate

    This morning, about 1 o’clock, I finished reading Abaddon’s Gate, the third book in The Expanse series. (Until I just checked on Google, I didn’t realise Abaddon was the Angel of Death in the Book of Revelation – I thought he was a character from Warhammer 40,000 most famous for the fact that the arms […]

  • Caliban’s War

    Unable to sleep between 2 and 4 this morning, I finished reading Caliban’s War, the second novel in The Expanse series. So now I’m one third of the way through.  Structurally it’s a little inferior to its predecessor. Perhaps it’s the Game of Thrones influence that made the writers think people love nothing more than […]

  • Leviathan Wakes

    My wife and I have just finished reading Leviathan Wakes, a sci find space opera welded to a pulp boot, written by a couple of George R R Martin’s assistants. It took us each about three days to read it from beginning to end: an oddly compulsive few days of late nights.