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

the writings of women and men who travelled together - Travels in Tandem [my review]

Nina Berberova's stories of 1930 Paris - Billancourt Tales [my review]

Stefan Heym's novella - The Queen Against Defoe [my review]

Ismail Kadare's novel - The Palace of Dreams [my review]

German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German [my review]

A History of Wales + The Making of Wales [my review]

Per Olov Enquist's novel of labour unrest in Sweden around 1910 - The March of the Musicians [my review]

ebooks, Amazon and DRM - Stross

"piracy is a much less immediate threat than a gigantic multinational with revenue of $48 Billion"

getting high on old books - WaningMoon

yesterday I visited the Oxford University Press museum - Plus

Schopenhauer: "It would be good to buy books if, along with them, one could buy the time to read them."

"Es wäre gut, Bücher zu kaufen, wenn man die Zeit, sie zu lesen, mitkaufen könnte."

A Radical Rethinking of the Way to Fight Global Poverty - Poor Economics [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.