books
Just read: Britain’s Rottenest Years
I haven’t finalised my list of goals for 2012 but one of them is going to be keeping a track of every book I read. The first finish of the year was a pop history book: Britain’s Rottenest Years by Derek Wilson. It covers ten separate years from the past 2000 that that make 21st [...]
Some books that I possibly like, maybe
A few times over the last couple of weeks I’ve referred to different books being on my “favourite books list” – but yesterday I realised I’ve never sat down and worked out said list so, frankly, anything could be on there. As a result of that realisation, and in a bid to avoid doing anything [...]
Navigating the fictional but real world
In Liverpool in 1998, I bought a book from a publisher clearance style bookshop called ‘The Breeders Box‘. It’s set, primarily, in New York, around Greenwich Village – where I have never been – and for the first four, five times I read it, I had to imagine what the area looked like, how the [...]
Leeds Reads really bad novels
My current employer, Leeds University Library, is running an event called “Leeds Read at the moment, to culminate with World Book Day on Thursday 2nd March 2006. Around the various buildings, there are displays and opportunities for people to vote for their favourite book, and there are special “meet the author” type events too. The [...]
Post-1945 British history: two books
By coincidence, I’ve read two books on about British social history since 1945 back to back recently. (Actually, I read the excellent “The Lovely Bones” by Alice Sebold in between but I was ill and got through it in less than a day so it didn’t really feel like a long break between the other [...]
Foundation by Issac Asimov
For almost a year now, I’ve been playing an online game based on the Foundation series by Issac Asimov. It is, strangely enough, called FoundationGame (or FondationJeu in its original French) and can be found here (and here for the French version). I started playing because John introduced me to it. He had read the [...]