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Wednesday, 30 April 2025
"The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe Without Design" by Richard Dawkins - audiobook review
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I read this because Douglas Adams recommended it a number of times in Last Chance to See and elsewhere; and also as a follow-on from my ear...
Saturday, 26 April 2025
"Heartstopper: Volume One" by Alice Oseman - book review
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This is a very sweet graphic novel that was turned into the groundbreaking Netflix TV series of the same name. It's effectively a storyb...
Friday, 25 April 2025
"1606: Shakespeare and the Year of Lear" by James Shapiro - book review
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A follow-up to 1599 and in the same vein of a biography of Shakespeare based on one year in his life. Things have changed quite a lot in th...
Thursday, 24 April 2025
"Monsters: What Do We Do with Great Art by Bad People?" by Claire Dederer - audiobook review
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We listened to most of this audiobook on long Easter bank holiday car journeys to and from Scotland. It was written in the wake of the #MeTo...
Sunday, 13 April 2025
"The Letters of Mercurius" by Mercurius Oxoniensis - book review
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A book a satirical letters about the student revolts at Oxford University in 1968-70 written in a comical Elizabethan English and published ...
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