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Guy’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Guy’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Guy Burt
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The Hole
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1993
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Sophie
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A Clock Without Hands
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Origin Story: Why I started writing
Much of this blog is going to be day-to-day thoughts: what I’m doing, how it’s going, whether the process of translating the voices in my head into words on paper that actually work is happening well or not. But I feel like you’re owed a bit of context too, so you know what you’re getting into. We need some kind of origin story.
It starts with being a reader of stories. I devoured books as a kid: r
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| This was my first foray into Smiley territory: I confess I found my way here after watching the excellent Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy film with Gary Oldman in the lead. I'd always been aware of Le Carré's work but had never taken the plunge, and for a ...more | |
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| Well, this is just silly; but it spoke to my inner child (and what it said was really rude and stupid). A good stocking-filler for a friend who hasn't attained emotional maturity yet 😉 ...more | |
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“If we could live all our lives in the present, with no recourse to what has gone before or what might yet be, we would be so much the simpler for it. But in fact the here and now of life is all too often the least considered, while thoughts of the past and expectations of the future conspire to tangle our minds with irreconcilable regrets and hopes."
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