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

a novel of personal and family change in modern Korea - Please Look After Mom [my review]

I have a Kindle: notes on using it - OxfordBlog

Why People Become Poor and How they Escape Poverty - One Illness Away [my review]

twenty beautiful bookshops, worldwide - Flavorwire [via @VivianYang]

where to start with modern Korean literature - KTLIT

German: A Linguistic Introduction [my review]

notable translations published in 2011 - AkhondOfSwat

Ferenc Karinthy's novel of linguistic alienation - Metropole [my review]

How Humans Are Changing the Next 100,000 Years of Earth's Climate - The Long Thaw [my review]

Antal Szerb's slight but charming entertainment - Oliver VII [my review]

yet another translation of Madame Bovary - Guardian [via Jenny]

book publishers are cutting their own throats with DRM - Stross

(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.