0340 | The Making of the Atomic Bomb | Richard Rhodes
Context: Just after I finished this off, a 7.3 earthquake with more explosive force than an atomic bomb smashed a pot in our living room from 100 miles away. REVIEW…
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0339 | Jacob’s Room | Virginia Woolf
Context: Attended a Cultural Self-Discovery Workshop while I read this… fascinating… both the book and the workshop! REVIEW Boy this woman can write. With every book that I pick up…
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0338 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Victor Hugo
Context: Got myself a brand new crash helmet sent over from the US while I was reading this one. REVIEW Oh this was so much better than the mauling Disney…
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0337 | The Gathering | Anne Enright
Context: Finished burning off our piles of old paperwork as I finished reading this. REVIEW Right off the bat I’ll say that this is one of the most disappointing Booker…
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0336 | A General Theory of Love | Lewis, Amini & Lannon
Context: Our jacaranda tree was in full bloom as I finished this one off. REVIEW This is the third book on the psychology of love which I picked up when…
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0335 | Oroonoko | Aphra Behn
Context: Began the mammoth task of scanning all our unscanned office documentation while reading this. REVIEW This is a short story about a king abducted from his tribe in Surinam…
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0334 | In the Heart of the Country | J. M. Coetzee
Context: Spent over 2 hours burning unbelievable amounts of old paperwork from our office while I was reading this. Very satisfying! REVIEW Coetzee is turning into one of my favourite…
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0333 | Manub & Kilibob:Melanesian Models for Brotherhood | Rufus Pech
Context: Involved in final rehearsals for Cinderella while I finished this off. REVIEW After having had one of the strangest experiences of my life attending meetings of a group of…
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0332 | The Fox | D.H. Lawrence
Context: Starting a run of exhausting rehearsals for Cinderella. And, before you ask, no, I’m not an ugly sister. REVIEW Haven’t read any Lawrence for quite a while. Actually, not…
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0331 | Melmoth the Wanderer | Charles Robert Maturin
Context: Our gardener planted a ton of corn for us while I was reading this. It came up in hours, not days… not really but it seemed like it. REVIEW…
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0330 | The Nose | Nikolai Gogol
Context: We got the first of what looks to be many bunches of bananas off our banana trees while I was reading this. REVIEW Brilliant. What an idea! Someone’s nose…
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0329 | The Purloined Letter | Edgar Allen Poe
Context: As I finished this, my transfer went through to purchase my second ever motorbike, a 200cc Yamaha REVIEW Better be careful here or my review might actually be longer…
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0328 | Under the Volcano | Malcolm Lowry
Context: As I was struggling to reach the end of this, I finally got myself a practice amp for my guitar. REVIEW When I bought this in second hand bookshop…
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0327 | Mutants – Armand Marie Leroi
Context: Mrs Arukiyomi brought me breakfast in bed the day I finished this one off. What a lovely surprise! REVIEW If you have hang-ups about the fact that you’re a…
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0326 | On Beauty | Zadie Smith
Context: Started reading this as I prepared to go on a 320km bike ride through Western Province, PNG. REVIEW Definitely enjoyed this more than White Teeth and this is an…
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0325 | The Way of All Flesh | Samuel Butler
Context: Finished this on my e-book reader as I cycled 320km around the far southwest of PNG on a survey of the communities of the Tonda Sub-Family of languages. REVIEW…
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0324 | Codependent No More | Melody Beattie
Context: Finished this off as we moved from our old place to this new place… much nicer… same rent! REVIEW While I was back in the UK for a few…
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0323 | Moll Flanders | Daniel Defoe
Context: Finished this as the wife and I read by the first fire we made in our new house. REVIEW This is a quite remarkable novel for its time and…