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19 Macrolog entries tagged with ‘books’
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 6 Sun 24 Jul 2011
Forgot to post these after the last batch. That was four months ago. Oops. Anyway, some more linkage from 2006: Wayfaring / Web service for creating personalised maps (of walking routes, etc). Completely forgot about this! Tom Coates’ notes on...
Weeknotes #494-504 Mon 04 Jul 2011 | 0 Comments
Eleven weeks, eh? Feels both much longer than that and no time at all. Let’s check the calendar and see what I’ve been up to… – April closed out nicely with Knut and Keelhaul playing a free show at the...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 2 Tue 01 Feb 2011
More links from the archives, this time 2004: Tufte Vs. Bloom / Paul Ford’s thoughts on Franco Moretti’s Graphs, Maps, Trees, which I never got around to finishing at the time; it’s about evaluating literature in context, the kind of...
Blogfodder Link Dump Part 1 Wed 26 Jan 2011
The ‘Blogfodder’ folder in my bookmarks is a bit of a catch-all location for any interesting links I find and might want to explore later in more detail. That was the intention, anyway — over the years it’s completely outgrown...
So Many Books... Wed 15 Mar 2006 | 7 Comments
Markham's new blog won't accept my comment on his recent post about books and the bloggers who love them, so I've posted it here instead...
Best of 2005 Sat 31 Dec 2005
I didn’t bother with any end-of-year ‘best of’s’ on the site last December. In fact, I barely posted here at all, and with good reason: Benitha was here, so why would I waste those precious moments making silly lists for...
The World at Our Bidding Mon 27 Jun 2005 | 1 Comments
If I might have your attention for a moment, I’ve written a feature for the wonderfully eclectic Sigla magazine. It’s all about eBay, which this year is celebrating both its 10th anniversary and the launch of its dedicated Irish site....
The War on Words Wed 10 Nov 2004
Philip Pullman writes in last weekend's Guardian Review on the fate of literature as democratic activity in an increasingly didactic, theocratic world: The democracy of reading exists in the to-and-fro between reader and text, when each is free to engage...
André Brink in Profile Fri 20 Aug 2004 | 2 Comments
Last weekend's Guardian Review has a revealing profile on renowned Afrikaans author André Brink, who "since 1994 and the first democratic elections ... has tried to write the kind of novel which, while not in any way agitprop or crude,...
Bloomsday Notes Wed 16 Jun 2004
So today was the 100th anniversary of Bloomsday, the day on which the events of James Joyce’s Ulysses take place. And it completely passed me by, as I had other, more pressing matters at hand. But I feel that I’ve...
Page 23, Sentence 5 Sat 01 May 2004
“She was shocked and said, ‘What can I do to kill him?’” [from The Child with a Moon on his Chest by SM Guma, as featured in The New Century of South African Short Stories, ed. Michael Chapman; AD Donker,...
Jimmy Joyce Ha Ha Ha Tue 10 Feb 2004 | 3 Comments
Roddy Doyle (who wouldn't have become a writer if it weren't for my old primary school principal Noel Kennedy) has courted controversy for his alleged confession at a birthday celebration for James Joyce in New York that he "can't be...
Ulysses Update #3 Wed 24 Dec 2003
About an hour ago (and a week before the deadline, too) I completed my personal challenge; I can now hold my head high with pride and declare with the greatest confidence that yes, I _have_ read James Joyce's Ulysses, and...
Ulysses Update #2 Mon 15 Dec 2003
Fifteen days in now, and I'm at page 414. The going was great till about page 365, when the text suddenly morphed into early modern English, but I managed to fight my way through it; I didn't read English at...
Ulysses Update #1 Tue 09 Dec 2003
Nine days into the Ulysses challenge, and my bookmark rests at page 248. And you know what? I'm actually quite enjoying it. It's not nearly as difficult to read as I had been lead to believe. I expected Desolation Angels-style...
Ulysses Tue 02 Dec 2003 | 4 Comments
December is at last upon us. And to mark the occasion (amongst all those other important, life-fulfilling duties I must force myself to perform) I have given myself a challenge -- dare I say the mother of _all_ challenges: to...
Pancakes of the World Mon 10 Nov 2003 | 5 Comments
My first contribution to Omnivore, entitled Pancakes of the World, is now online for your reading pleasure. Please try to ignore the handful of spelling mistakes and poor choices of words, the faults of which are entirely my own. I'll...
You Shall Know Our Velocity (Abridged) Sat 22 Feb 2003 | 6 Comments
Don't have the time to read Dave Eggers' latest book, or simply can't (or can't be bothered to) get your hands on a copy? Not to worry - read the digest version instead (from today's Guardian)....
Iain Banks Mon 26 Aug 2002
I've always thought that Iain Banks lives a wonderful life. I remember some years ago, I was off sick from school and - as per usual whenever I was off sick - watching Channel 4 Schools (now 4Learning). There...
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