Cabbie Monaco
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Wednesday, 28 June 2017
Pulling the wings off bluebottles
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At least two men I know admit that as children they pulled the wings off bluebottles. Frank Cauldhame, the teenage protagonist of The Wasp ...
Tuesday, 20 June 2017
Punctuation? Who cares?
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Cormac McCarthy left a lot of questions unanswered in this cold, depressing story. There are really only two characters, both remain namele...
Beach or book? Both
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It was an easy choice to make on a sunny Saturday afternoon on the Cote d'Azur. I could have gone to the beach, stretched out in the s...
Wednesday, 14 June 2017
Not my sort of thing
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Cat's Cradle made it onto the list of books I wanted to read for three reasons: first, it's an apocalyptic story, second, it's ...
Friday, 9 June 2017
I sought trains; I found passengers
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"Why spend so much time traveling by train?" a friend asked when I said I was planning a rail journey through Europe. "What...
Tuesday, 6 June 2017
What's life about and why does shit happen?
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This is the first Philip Roth book I've read and I'm quite ambivalent about it. There were lots of things I didn't like, includ...
Saturday, 13 May 2017
Whatever happened to Depeche Mode?
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I'd completely forgotten about Depeche Mode, and I didn't bother to refresh my memory because by the time I made enquiries about the...
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