Books and Media

my book reviews - ramblings of a pathologically eclectic generalist
a film diary - with brief comments and the occasional review
Australian bookshops and publishers
rec.arts.books.reviews - book reviews on Usenet
Reading Notes - including Harry Potter criticism.

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Links and News

books after the age of print - TruthDig [via @ucpress]

I've been in the UK for 16 days and have acquired 34 books...

I suspect this is not sustainable

The Changing Fortunes of Whales and Dolphins - Troubled Waters [my review]

Midnight Convoy and Other Stories [my review]

tales of alfalfa, the 1948 war, and moments of inspiration

Trick or Treatment? Alternative Medicine on Trial [my review]

The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century [my review]

a history of modern classical music

Vietnam 1946: How the War Began [my review]

a political study of French-Vietnamese relations

A Fractal View of Risk, Ruin, and Reward - The (Mis)behavior of Markets [my review]

Vietnam: A Portrait of its People at War [my review]

An Inspector Chen Mystery - A Case of Two Cities [my review]

Illustrated Poetry of the First World War - A Corner of A Foreign Field [my review]

an Englishwoman visits Ottoman Turkey - The Turkish Embassy Letters [my review]

"Between 1716 and 1718, Lady Mary Wortley Montagu accompanied her husband during his appointment as ambassador to the Ottoman Empire."

(For more, see my blog Pathologically Polymathic or the latest book reviews.)

Other Resources

I don't really follow the publishing industry, or the latest in book gossip - I prefer to wait till five or ten years after a book's publication, when the fuss has died down a little and a longer-term perspective is available. If you're after book news I recommend the Complete Review's Literary Saloon, which also has links to other literary weblogs.