Jan Hicks · @dustystacks
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My last read for - I didn't quite finish it in November because it demanded slow reading and reflection of me.

The Sense of an Ending is a story about the paradoxes of existence, the unreliability of memory and the way we curate our memories to tell a manipulated version of the story of our lives.

It's utterly brilliant.

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Jan Hicks · @dustystacks
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Is A Pale View of Hills a ghost story, or is it the true memory of a Japanese woman transplanted from Nagasaki to an anonymous village in England?

's debut novel introduces the writer we now know him to be, over a career of eight novels (so far). It's full of observations on Japanese life but also his bread and butter observations on alienation and being an outsider.

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Jan Hicks · @dustystacks
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The Philosophy of Libraries

I've had Packing My Library on my To Read pile for a while, but the reading challenge gave me the impetus to pick it up.

I loved 's perspective on libraries, literature and reading. I relished the way he allowed his thoughts to wander off on certain topics, and the way these apparently disparate digressions all threaded together into a coherent whole.

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Christopher Lovegrove · @edpendragon
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A review of 's essay and Landscape, read as short non-fiction for .
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Laura Tisdall · @lauratisdall
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Hunting monsters in alien crypts, lesbian subcultures in 1940s San Francisco, a people who use dreaming to solve problems, an unhappy marriage in the Chinese afterlife... I review 4 speculative novellas drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2

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Laura Tisdall · @lauratisdall
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Hunting monsters in alien crypts, lesbian subcultures in 1940s San Francisco, a people who use dreaming to solve problems, an unhappy marriage in the Chinese afterlife... I review 4 speculative novellas drlauratisdall.wordpress.com/2

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Jan Hicks · @dustystacks
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A Very Normal Man tells the curious tale of Giovanni Vivaldi, a clerk in the Ministry of Pensions, working towards his own retirement when a swift and shocking tragedy occurs.

The tragedy leads to a moment of decision that takes an unexpected turn, with Giovanni taking a brutal revenge on the perpetrator of the tragedy.

I loved it.

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Christopher Lovegrove · @edpendragon
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A review of 's short nonfiction 'Nursery Rhymes: an Essay' (1947) for .

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Christopher Lovegrove · @edpendragon
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Review of 's Convenience Store Woman for 's novellas in translation.

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Christopher Lovegrove · @edpendragon
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"Life and a lover": my review of 's classic novella (?) Orlando, half a century after first reading it.

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