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0716 | Seeing Islam as Others Saw It | Robert Hoyland
non-fiction

0716 | Seeing Islam as Others Saw It | Robert Hoyland

Completed7 February, 202127 February, 2021

What Hoyland has tackled here is no less than a complete literary survey of any non-Islamic writing that refers to Islam between its 630 AD emergence and 780 when it…

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0715 | Stick and Rudder | Wolfgang Langewiesche
fiction

0715 | Stick and Rudder | Wolfgang Langewiesche

Completed23 January, 202120 February, 2021

I’ve always been fascintated by flying and, since building myself a computer that can cope with it, I’ve been using a flight simulator to teach myself how to fly. Stick…

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0714 | Corrections in Early Qur’an Manuscripts | Daniel Brubaker
fiction

0714 | Corrections in Early Qur’an Manuscripts | Daniel Brubaker

Completed3 January, 20217 February, 2021

Dr Brubaker’s work has caused something of a minor stir in the centuries-old arena that is Christian-Muslim dialogue. While the world waits for publication of his more technical doctorate-level work,…

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0713 | The Thirteen Clocks / The Wonderful O | James Thurber
fiction

0713 | The Thirteen Clocks / The Wonderful O | James Thurber

Completed30 December, 202031 January, 2021

Thurber’s wonderfully bonkers children’s books were so short that Puffin reissued two of them in one edition in the 1960s. This is very convenient because Thurber’s writing is the kind…

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0712 | Flat Earth | Christine Garwood
non-fiction

0712 | Flat Earth | Christine Garwood

Completed30 December, 202015 January, 2021

Just before Christmas, this popped through the door completely anonymously. Tearing it open, it sounded like just the thing to while away a day or so reading over the break….

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0711 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick
non-fiction

0711 | Nothing to Envy | Barbara Demick

Completed23 December, 202015 January, 2021

Barbara Demick has struck exactly the right tone in her classic description of life in North Korea. Granted, the book was written in 2009 so it’s a bit dated now,…

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0710 | Mother | Maxim Gorky
fiction

0710 | Mother | Maxim Gorky

Completed23 December, 202031 January, 2021

This reads like a cross between Dr Zhivago and the last part of The Jungle. It’s packed full of characters who, in true Russian fashion, each have seven names they…

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0709 | The Triune God | Fred Sanders
non-fiction

0709 | The Triune God | Fred Sanders

Completed16 December, 202012 January, 2021

Having completed The Deep Things of God by Sanders only recently, I was encouraged by that to continue with The Triune God, a book I was having a hard time…

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0708 | The Gospel According to John | D. A. Carson
non-fiction

0708 | The Gospel According to John | D. A. Carson

Completed23 November, 202012 January, 2021

I read this meticulously over three years and loved every single minute of it. Previously, I’ve not been an avid fan of Bible commentaries. You can often find yourself following…

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0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden
non-fiction

0707 | Hue 1968 | Mark Bowden

Completed6 November, 202012 January, 2021

While Max Hastings attempted to do the impossible and cover the entire 14 years plus of the American War in Indochina, Mark Bowden humbles himself before the historic edifice and…

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fiction

0705 | Baltasar and Blimunda | Jose Saramago

Completed17 October, 202028 December, 2020

The last effort from Portugal I endeavoured to read through was the utterly futile Book of Disquiet by Fernando Pessoa. It is with great thankfulness that I can report Saramago…

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0706 | The Deep Things of God | Fred Sanders
non-fiction

0706 | The Deep Things of God | Fred Sanders

Completed17 October, 202012 January, 2021

The vast majority of us Christians aren’t as informed on the character of the God we worship as we should be. Neither are we adept at moving out of our…

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0703 | No One Writes to the Colonel | Gabriel Garcia Marquez
fiction

0703 | No One Writes to the Colonel | Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Completed17 October, 202012 January, 2021

A book of short stories which is far, far more satisfying than ploughing your way through the tedium that is One Hundred Years of Solitude. What Garcia Marquez has done…

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fiction

0704 | The Circle | Dave Eggers

Completed8 October, 202028 December, 2020

Whoever reviewed this for The Guardian said it was “prescient, important and very funny.” Two out of three ain’t bad, I suppose; there are precious few laughs to be had…

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non-fiction

0702 | Did Muhammad Exist? | Robert Spencer

Completed24 August, 202027 December, 2020

Oh, what a question? How could you even ask that? But, yes, this is exactly the kind of question Islam should be subjected to. For the last 200 years, beginning…

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fiction

0701 | Moon Palace | Paul Auster

Completed20 August, 202023 December, 2020

Again, another Auster, and the only question you’re left with is why he bothered writing it. Composing this review by copying and pasting chunks of my review of The New…

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fiction

0700 | No God But One: Allah or Jesus | Nabeel Qureshi

Completed26 July, 202023 December, 2020

The strength of this book lies in its unique perspective. Very few books comparing Islam and Christianity are written by people who have been committed to both camps. If there…

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fiction

0699 | Pachinko | Min Jin Lee

Completed21 July, 202020 December, 2020

My word this is a mess of a book. It’s a mess of a story, it’s a mess of characters, and most shockingly for me, it’s a literal mess: it…

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