Good evening, ladies and gents; the new job is taking up a fair bit of my time but I’ve managed to get some reading done.
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October Reviews: Part Two
Good morning ladies and gentlemen, once again I return with a collection of book reviews. Work is still occupying half my days and the rest I am trying to dedicate to writing. Best of luck to everyone taking part in NaNoWriMo 2014, have a good November.
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October Reviews, part 1
While I’m getting used to my new job I’m going to post my reviews in a single blog post. They will probably be quite short, a summary of the content or plot, followed by my opinion and reasons for that opinion.
Enjoy
Review: ‘Comradely Greetings’
The Prison Letters of Nadya and Slavoj
By Nadezhda Tolokonnikova and Slavoj Zizek
Translated by Ian Dreiblatt
Introduced by Michel Eltchaninoff
Review: ‘The Gospel According to Monty Python’ by Julian Doyle
June reviews: part one
It’s the middle of the month and yet I haven’t posted a single book review. To make up for it I’m going to review four today.
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Review: The Cambridge Companion to Einstein
Editor: Michel Janssen and Christophe Lehner
2014
Cambridge University Press (New York)
ISBN: 9780521535427
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ARC review: ‘I Freed Myself’ by David Williams
8th April 2014
Cambridge University Press
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April Fool’s Day
I saw this Tweet from the OED earlier and it got me thinking.
Our earliest recorded example of ‘April fool’ (the victim of a trick or hoax on the first of April) is from 1693. #AprilFoolsDay — The OED (@OED)
Review: ‘Guns, germs and steel’ by Jared Diamond
First published:
1997
Chatto & Windus
This edition:
2005
Vintage Books
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