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James’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at James’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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How my father, minutes after leading a platoon over the top during the first world war, got shot by an English bullet.
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The Excavations: A History of the End of the World
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The Book of War
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African Pens 2011: New Writing from Southern Africa
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WALK
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The Bundle of Joy and Other Stories from Africa: Africa Book Club Anthology
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We Two From Heaven: A Memoir
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Dancing With the Dead
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RIP Hugh Lewin
Bandiet: Seven Years In A South African Prison by Hugh LewinMy rating: 5 of 5 stars
The Bandiet has left us. RIP Hugh Lewin.
This piece was first published by Style Magazine in 1996.
One morning in 1982 I woke up with a Security Policeman in my room. I was sharing a house in Mons Rd in Bellevue East with my friend the painter, Carl Becker, and a beautiful young woman, since emigrated to Australi Read more of this blog post »
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Henry ‘Chips’ Channon: The Diaries (Volume 3): 1943-57:
"I finally finished - been working on this for months. (I checked it out from the library, as an ebook, and I kept having to return it). I read all three diaries - 3,040 pages - and I think that’s an achievement of some sort. Chips Channon’s diaries a"
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Some reasons to read Richard Flanagan’s Question 7. #Hiroshima Bomb away, said Thomas Ferebee. ‘My God,’ the co-pilot Captain Robert Lewis said over the intercom, ‘what have we done?’ *** #HGWells - who first imagined it. This definite and conclusive idea ...more |
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“A man lays his character on the line when he writes a novel. Anything in him which is lazy, or meretricious, or unthought-out, complacent, fearful, overambitious, or terrified by the ultimate logic of his exploration will be revealed in his book.”
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“These are the true patriots, with their hands in the till and their feet in the gore …”
― The French Revolution, Volume II
― The French Revolution, Volume II
“Lies, and the burden of evil they bring, are passed on; shifted from back to back, and from rank to rank; and so land ultimately on the dumb lowest rank, who with spade and mattock, with sore heart and empty wallet, daily come in contact with reality, and can pass the cheat no further.”
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“The various modes of worship, which prevailed in the Roman world, were all considered by the people, as equally true; by the philosopher, as equally false; and by the magistrate, as equally useful.
Gibbon, Edward. HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6”
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Gibbon, Edward. HISTORY OF THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE ROMAN EMPIRE COMPLETE VOLUMES 1 - 6”
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“My early and invincible love of reading--I would not exchange for the treasures of India.”
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Lotts hab funn at Finnegans wake!! Here Comes Everybody!! Alle Laffing Prettee!!!
