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Only very special people are chosen by children's author Laura White to join "The Society", …
Picked this up because of the author's name. Started out like a slightly odd literary mystery but ended up absolutely batshit insane!
Discovered this author via his nature column in the New Statesman. This book has some if the same wild pagan beauty but some of it is a bit self-obsessed mumbling, but I guess it is an autobiography.
"Danes have hygge. Swedes have lagom. But the Finns have the best - "kalsariokanni" or …
Little did I know that we have been living the Päntsdrunk life since 2009...
David Hackston, Antti Tuomainen: Mine (2016, Orenda Books)
In the dead of winter, investigative reporter Janne Vuori sets out to uncover the truth about a mining company, whose …
Within the context of the Chinese Cultural Revolution, a military project sends messages to alien …
Hmm, the bits about the scientist and the cop were good, but the computer game stuff and the Trisolaris stuff was a bit silly. Although I did like the "dehydration" aspect. Not read anything like this before!
Ray Davies: Americana (2013)
The British Invasion musician discusses his love/hate relationship with America, from his first U.S. tour …
Continues on from where X-Ray ended. I had never heard any of these albums so listened along as I read it.
Love the quotes from Mick Avory: Paul McCartney = "Pull My Cock Off"
Tintin and the Picaros is the twenty-first tale in The Adventures of Tintin series, written and illustrated by Hergé. This …
The Seven Crystal Balls (French: Les Sept Boules de Cristal) is the thirteenth volume of The Adventures of Tintin, the …
Reading these to my daughter, I was excited as I remember loving them. Um, they're a bit racist though...
Throughout history, great philosophers have been answering profound questions about life. But do they know why your socks keep disappearing …
Pretty good, quite short, but it is the only book written about the album that changed my life!
Life sometimes seems illogical. Individuals do strange things: take drugs, have unprotected sex, mug each other. Love seems irrational, and …
Critically acclaimed as one of the most successful economy books of all time, and a 'must-read' for those of us …