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The 2024 Reading List
It’s been a good reading year.
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Sweet Nothing : The Gospel According to Frank Bascombe
Richard Ford wraps up the Bascombe saga and leaves the reader with a sense of miracle.
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Non-Commutative Reading Order : When Books Speak to Each Other Across Time
It’s fascinating how books aren’t mere repositories of information. That the order in which you encounter them actually dictates how your understanding evolves.
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The Curse of Completism : Confessions of a Compulsive Collector
Completism comes in many shapes and forms. It doesn’t necessarily have to manifest in a physical collection, but can also translate into a more generalised ambition to ‘take it all the way’.
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Show Me Your Canon And I’ll Tell You Who You Are
What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.
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A Beautiful Temptation
What constitutes the canonical English language novel? A deceptively simple idea turns into a cognitive quagmire.
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The 2023 Reading List
Reading. The ultimate unfair advantage.
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What A Quarter Century Worth of Winners Says About the Booker Prize
Trying to get even the most ephemeral grasp of anything as complex as English language literature, might seem like a fools errand.
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We Need to Talk About Steve
My bromance with Steve goes back as far as I can remember. That’s probably why I felt such a severe case of cognitive dissonance when picking up Lisa Brennan-Jobs’ memoir Small Fry.
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The Only Thing That’s Real : Confronting Pain Through Art, from Johhny Cash to Lina Wolff
I was appalled by every page of Djävulsgreppet, but I’m profoundly grateful that Wolf took the pain to write it. The world has turned into a richer place for it.
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The 2022 Reading List
It’s been a good book year.
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The Reading Habit
I finally figured out the answer to that question I used to subject innocent job seekers to. It took me three full iterations.
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A River Of Tears
I remember one of my first hangovers. I was on a beautiful beach surrounded by friends. They’d baked me a cake, but I didn’t have the stomach for it.
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One Hell of a Book
Learning to love yourself in a country where your life can be taken away from you at any moment and there’s nothing you can do about it – learning to love yourself in the middle of all that? Hell, that’s a goddamn miracle.
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The 2021 Reading List
My taste in books is… eclectic