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Dreaming Frankenstein: & Collected Poems by Liz Lochhead
4.0
Halfway thru reading this I thought I’d lost my copy and bought another one. Then I found the lost copy under my bed. Then I noticed the new copy I’d bought was signed ‘All the best. Liz Locchead 1990’
The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida by Shehan Karunatilaka
3.5
Didn’t connect with it at first but it got better and better and ended really strongly.
Iain Crichton Smith: Selected Poems by Iain Crichton Smith
4.0
I didn’t really connect with the first few poems but when it came into focus for me I really liked them a lot.
Tales From Ovid: Twenty Four Passages From The Metamorphoses by Ted Hughes
4.5
Truly great, visceral eternal poetry .
Confessions of A Philosopher by Bryan Magee
4.0
Dryly written at times but helped me understand bits of Kant and genuinely inspired me to read more philosophy.
On Suicide by David Hume
4.0
Took a few pages and a bit of a sore head for me to acclimatise to the 18th Century prose but good stuff in here
Freud by Anthony Storr
4.0
A pretty good introduction, I think. One is left with the impression of having got a good sense of the essential ideas but also of some thoughtful critiques of them.
Wall Of Eyes by Margaret Millar
3.5
Good twist and well written but sometimes the welcome harshness in Millar can read a little sour to me and this was one of them.
Means of Ascent: The Years of Lyndon Johnson (Volume 2) by Robert A. Caro
4.0
This is obviously excellent but I was glad to leave the world of Lyndon Johnson when I finished it.
The Collected Novellas of Stefan Zweig by Stefan Zweig
5. A Chess Story
4. Fear
3. Confusion
2. Journey Into the Past
1. Burning Secret
emotional
reflective
sad
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? Yes
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
4.0
Read a collection of the novellas of Stefan Zweig. Seeing as there were 5 of them, gonna have to rank them, which seems totally at odds with his subtle and nuanced vibes but here we go:
5. A Chess Story
4. Fear
3. Confusion
2. Journey Into the Past
1. Burning Secret