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 Contextual History - Mathematics in Ancient Egypt [my review]

reading at age eight - Oxford Blog

the whole of Carole Satyamurti's retelling of the Mahabharata is online - Erenow

the British army: an opaque and inflexible institution - Guardian

Nature's Ultimate Social Hunters - Army Ants [my review]

How Legendary Frauds Reveal the Workings of Our World - Lying for Money [my review]

discovering Mary Norton's Borrowers - Foxed Quarterly

the UK re-classifies many classic PG films to 12A - Guardian

when your library is big enough you can get your daily exercise finding books in it! - @EvanKirstel [via @phaseit]

An Atlas of Imaginary Lands - The Writer's Map [my review]

the challenges of being a tree - Trees: Their Natural History [my review]

a short novel of aging and memory, of pain, suffering, love and joy - Difficult Light [my review]

(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.