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June 30, 2014

‘Into the Black’, E. Currie

Evan Currie’s fourth book in the ‘Into the Black’ saga is out in about a week. With that in mind, I decided to reread…

June 29, 2014

‘Anne Boleyn’, H. Brenton

I had the great pleasure of going to theatre yesterday — the play I saw in the Maddermarket Theatre was ‘Anne Boleyn’, written by…

June 28, 2014

‘Das gibt’s nur einmal, das kommt nicht wieder’

This is the song I quoted in the previous post — and it is amazing. Listening to it is a jolly affair as I…

June 28, 2014

Norfolk & Getting About — Walking

Norfolk is really a wonderous place — although it comes to mind that perhaps everywhere is when you spend time there. The beauty of…

June 20, 2014

‘The Wind Rises’, H Miyazaki

I saw this film only recently, and while I am still considering some of what it showed in the story, I was more hoping…

June 18, 2014

The ForeWorld Books

A man did not need to understand the words to know what was being said. Music, like violence, crossed all languages. I have been…

February 18, 2014

Seating Arrangements on Trieres

I read an interesting article earlier today (found here) on how our probable conclusions for triremes have been wrong. I found the article firstly…

February 17, 2014

‘A Kiss Before Dying’, I. Levin

I can remember reading ‘The Boys from Brazil’ sometime last year. I never thought much else of Ira Levin although I really enjoyed that…

February 16, 2014

‘The Inn at the Edge of the World’, A. Ellis

I chose this book after my previous one because of the name. The name looked promising; I thought I had found a dramatic piece…

February 15, 2014

‘Cloud Road’, J. Harrison

This book started out very slow — my thoughts on its quality ranging from one extreme to the other. After all, how can we…

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