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

British children's books: food banks are now a part of everyday life - Guardian

ten cities and five millennia - Mesopotamia: The Invention of the City [my review]

a small town in Denmark in the 1920s - A Change of Time [my review]

Bringing Words to Life: Robust Vocabulary Instruction - DannyReviews

Ancient DNA and the New Science of the Human Past - Who We Are and How We Got Here [my review]

some little details in Studio Ghibli's classic Kiki's Delivery Service (now 30 years old) - @TristanACooper

publishing children's books from around the world, especially Iranian ones - Tiny Owl

The Mathematics of Linkages, Origami, and Polyhedra - How To Fold It [my review]

a metafictional short story collection - Obabakoak [my review]

a classic murder mystery with a political-legal twist - An English Murder [my review]

The Diversity of a Narrative Tradition in South Asia - Many Ramayanas [my review]

Chinese "Silent Traveller" writer gets a blue plaque in Oxford - Guardian

(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.