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Tag Archives: Hope: A Tragedy
My Top Ten Novels of 2012
Aye so, it’s that time of year again, when we arbitrarily hold pieces of writing up against each other and decide which is best! So let’s crack on! Click on the book cover to go through to my review in … Continue reading
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Tagged A.M. Homes, Crimes in Southern Indiana, Dare Me, Denis Johnson, Don Winslow, Easy Money, frank bill, Gillian Flynn, Gone Girl, Hope: A Tragedy, irvine welsh, jens lapidus, Kings of Cool, May We Be Forgiven, Megan Abbott, ron rash, shalom auslander, Skagboys, The Cove, Top Ten Novels of 2012, Train Dreams
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Books I read and reviewed in January (and some I didn’t)
OK, so one of the things I do to make ends meet is review books. This means that I am always reading shitloads of books. And sometimes it means I’m reading books that aren’t very good, when I could be … Continue reading
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Tagged Adrian McKinty, Alex Rosenberg, Alexander MacLeod, Crimes in Southern Indiana, David Kaiser, Distrust That Particular Flavor, doug johnstone, El Narco, frank bill, Gil Scott-Heron, Hope: A Tragedy, How the Hippies Saved Physics, Ioan Grillo, Light Lifting, shalom auslander, The Atheists' Guide to Reality, The Cold Cold Ground, The Last Holiday, William Gibson
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