For my "favourite" books of 2018, I can’t just pick one thing from each genre – that seems a bit too artificial for how haphazard my reading was last year. Instead, I’ve just highlighted the books that I’m still thinking about the most, even months after reading them. Call them…
Read MoreMy method of choosing books to read in 2018 looked systematic (I like systems) but had a whole lot of serendipity embedded in it. When I heard about, or remembered, or researched, or otherwise discovered, a book I wanted to read, I looked it up in the public library, and…
Read MoreWhat is this? An actual blog post? Yes, it is, only two years since the last one. The thesis novel I last updated you about is back up to 92,000 words and officially in draft 5 (but who’s counting); yes, I did get my degree, but that doesn’t mean the…
Read MoreIt turns out that the narrator of Richard Brautigan's prescient 1968 masterpiece In Watermelon Sugar was Steve Jobs. To whit: iDEATH It was about dark when I arrived at iDEATH. The two evening stars were now shining side by side. The smaller one had moved over to the big one.…
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