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

Britain and the Industrial Revolution 1700-1850 - The Enlightened Economy [my review]

the polyjuice potion has worn off: "an exclusive school for quasi-aristocratic magical Übermensch living off invisible slave labour" - UseJournal

reading complexity and constraints at six - Oxford Blog

the central ideas of mathematics, in their historical context - Mathematics and Its History [my review]

A Teachers' Manifesto - Flip the System UK [my review]

Betty Ballantine helped make science fiction and fantasy mainstream - Smithsonian

children's books and text complexity metrics - Oxford Blog

Vladimir Propp constructed a formal regular grammar in 1928 - Bactra

one of our teachers talks about the importance of storytelling - ReadingRealm

on reading and rereading Faulkner's _As I Lay Dying_ - LitHub [via @RipOffRed]

a reading of the Epic of Gilgamesh - YouTube

twenty years of books are coming out of US copyright - NYT

(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.