Lee Ward
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Books read on one day in November in 2025, but not *that* day: On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. How can this slim novel in which nothing much keeps happening be so magical? First volume of *seven*! Can't wait to get back aboard the quotidian merry-go-round
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Books read on one day in November in 2025, but not *that* day: On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. How can this slim novel in which nothing much keeps happening be so magical? First volume of *seven*! Can't wait to get back aboard the quotidian merry-go-round
Books read on one day in November in 2025, but not *that* day: On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. How can this slim novel in which nothing much keeps happening be so magical? First volume of *seven*! Can't wait to get back aboard the quotidian merry-go-round
November 28, 2025 at 8:59 PM
Books read on one day in November in 2025, but not *that* day: On the Calculation of Volume, Solvej Balle. How can this slim novel in which nothing much keeps happening be so magical? First volume of *seven*! Can't wait to get back aboard the quotidian merry-go-round
lol I thought time would have dimmed my animus but.... nah
November 27, 2025 at 11:38 AM
lol I thought time would have dimmed my animus but.... nah
Books inhaled in 2025: Sparrow, James Hynes. From the time of the first Christians, to the arse end of pagan rule in a backwater of Empire, this is a brilliant but unflinching present-tense slave narrative about a boy raised by Wolves.
November 27, 2025 at 12:08 AM
Books inhaled in 2025: Sparrow, James Hynes. From the time of the first Christians, to the arse end of pagan rule in a backwater of Empire, this is a brilliant but unflinching present-tense slave narrative about a boy raised by Wolves.
A good if spoiler-filled review here (assuming you *can* spoil The Greatest Story Ever told) www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
Acts of the Assassins by Richard Beard review – the Passion as police procedural
Past and present combine to startling effect in this challenging novel, in which a hapless gumshoe tries to unravel the fate of Jesus and his disciples
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 9:31 AM
A good if spoiler-filled review here (assuming you *can* spoil The Greatest Story Ever told) www.theguardian.com/books/2015/m...
Books immolated in 2025: Acts of the Assassins, Richard Beard. Gallio is on the trail of a master terrorist he was sure he’d seen die, and who is inspiring his followers to spectacular acts of self-slaughter. Clever ultimately moving thriller
November 25, 2025 at 9:23 AM
Books immolated in 2025: Acts of the Assassins, Richard Beard. Gallio is on the trail of a master terrorist he was sure he’d seen die, and who is inspiring his followers to spectacular acts of self-slaughter. Clever ultimately moving thriller
That was always the bit wasn’t it?
November 24, 2025 at 11:10 AM
That was always the bit wasn’t it?
Books shivered through in 2025: Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin. Short stories like depth charges; you finish one thinking OK, fine, sure, and then in the night dead clammy fish keep rising to the surface, wow what a bad metaphor, trust me she writes better than this.
November 21, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Books shivered through in 2025: Good and Evil and Other Stories, Samanta Schweblin. Short stories like depth charges; you finish one thinking OK, fine, sure, and then in the night dead clammy fish keep rising to the surface, wow what a bad metaphor, trust me she writes better than this.
A few commentators pointing out it might even be mixed better than the album
November 20, 2025 at 9:31 PM
A few commentators pointing out it might even be mixed better than the album
Be interesting to know how many footnotes the last books of Johann Hari have.
November 20, 2025 at 7:40 PM
Be interesting to know how many footnotes the last books of Johann Hari have.
Books read in 2025: The Devil Book, Asta Olivia Nordenhof. In hindsight the collected journalism of Owen Jones would have been more stimulating
November 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
Books read in 2025: The Devil Book, Asta Olivia Nordenhof. In hindsight the collected journalism of Owen Jones would have been more stimulating
I bought a Kate Bush ticket via private sale in 2014. I suppose that unregulated market will massively expand.
November 17, 2025 at 9:46 PM
I bought a Kate Bush ticket via private sale in 2014. I suppose that unregulated market will massively expand.
isn't that risking an infinite regress of experience-havers?
November 17, 2025 at 9:31 PM
isn't that risking an infinite regress of experience-havers?
Can’t stop thinking about the haunting hilarious Don’t Look Now denouement
November 17, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Can’t stop thinking about the haunting hilarious Don’t Look Now denouement
Books read in 2025: All The Devils Are Here, David Seabrook. Brilliant. Like a W.G. Sebald of the psychos and the losers, the fascists and the fantasists. Sample sentence: [of London:] "1964 was the year that the city really began to swing, really swing – like a pendulum over a pit"
November 17, 2025 at 11:00 AM
Books read in 2025: All The Devils Are Here, David Seabrook. Brilliant. Like a W.G. Sebald of the psychos and the losers, the fascists and the fantasists. Sample sentence: [of London:] "1964 was the year that the city really began to swing, really swing – like a pendulum over a pit"