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

people who read have better interpersonal skills - IFLscience

three of Walter de la Mare's short stories - Missing [my review]

ten everyday phrases that come from printing - MentalFloss

sharing science through picture books - NCSU [via Visible]

a different perspective on Jane Austen - LitHub

sprightly review of a "dry and dutiful" biography of Theresa May - LRB

two different approaches - Projective Geometry [my review]

buy books instead of sending your children to private school - Guardian

Jenny Linsky and the Cat Club [my review]

The Vital Question: Why is life the way it is? [my review]

book update at age 4 - OxfordBlog

in Japanese, _tsundoku_ is "the stockpiling of books never consumed" - Quartz

(I'm running at a 62% read rate for books acquired while in the UK)

(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.