In my irregular themed look at old posts (previous posts here), this time I’ve picked novels where the author becomes part of the story – true metafiction – and I got AI to do me an illustration of a typewriter churning out a New York cityscape, which leads me to my first pick below… The New Read More
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Review of the Year #3: 2021, Books of the Year!
I still award a score to the majority of books I read – out of 10, including halfs (so out of 20 really!). Those scores are only snapshots of course, and some books fade from your memory as others, which maybe scored lower initially, stay or grow. I read 150 books this year, of which Read More
Book 100 of the Year: Charles Yu’s strange science fictional universe
How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu Inspired by Susan’s review of Yu’s latest novel, Interior Chinatown (which I’ve had to order!), I returned to Yu’s previous novel, his first published in 2010, which has a winning cover full of ray-guns, and if you look carefully enough, a dog. Both Read More