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’it may be sporadic, but when there it is always intense’
On Flaubert’s Parrot, the futility and necessity of describing facial features, and how webby an amateur’s reading life progressively becomes
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Love for Horses, by proxy - Part 1
From the days when I wrote my first stories in 2009 to today, my reading, writing and dreaming selves have loved horses.
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Midway through 'War and Peace'
Hair 'á la grecque', men with personalities wrapped in professions, and the modalities of boredom apropos fiction
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The Lottery And/Or The Con
On the literary potential of the stock markets, real options, and John D. MacDonald as gurudev
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Month #4 of 'War and Peace'
On money in novels, the impossibility of speedy emancipation, and homecomings
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Month #3 of 'War and Peace'
On the relationship between the Tolstoyan character and the Tolstoyan chapter
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Month #2 of 'War and Peace'
On Pamuk and Tolstoy, the sunbeam following sovereigns, gibberish at the frontlines, and a poem
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Reading roundup Feb 05 - Feb 19
Small hearts, AI hallucinations, teaching fiction, and just the one arresting simile this time
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Reading roundup Jan 22 - Feb 4
Jai Shree Ram, Molly Brodak, and once again a couple of arresting similes
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Month #1 of 'War and Peace'
Notes and observations from a slow-reading, communal experience, conducted superbly by Simon Haisell
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Reading roundup for the first three weeks (or so) of the year
Including a couple of arresting similes that kind of stopped me in my tracks
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