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Brad’s 2025 Year in Books
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Brad Simkulet
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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
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SEVEN SAMURAI (1954)
Directed by Akira Kurosawa
Cinematography by Asakazu Nakai
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The Crow Road is not Iain Banks best book, but I understand why it is his most popular (even though I am sure it's the wrong Banks book on that list of 1001 books to read).• It has the most catchy of openings: "It was the day my grandmother exploded. ...more "
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Another step in the Aubrey/Maturin's circumnavigation of the globe delivers one of the tetchiest spells we've ever seen on the HMS Surprise, and it is all down to stowaway Clarissa Oakes. Clarissa is an exile in Australia when she hooks up with Midshi ...more |
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The Swedish-noir (Swedish-svart?) family tree runs just so: Martin Beck (grandfather) → Kurt Wallander (father) → Mikael Blomkvist (son). Now I admit that my exposure to this family is limited by my North Americanism, by the translations that filter t ...more |
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From ship wreck in the South China Sea to bullshit politics in Sydney Cove (with a most excellent duel), then off to Bird Island (and a run in with the spur of a platypus), The Nutmeg of Consolation is a cracking yarn in the Aubrey/Maturin series. It ...more |
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Literary Exploration:
What Are You Reading - July 2011
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“You believe in a book that has talking animals, wizards, witches, demons, sticks turning into snakes, burning bushes, food falling from the sky, people walking on water, and all sorts of magical, absurd and primitive stories, and you say that we are the ones that need help?”
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“Everything we hear is an opinion, not a fact. Everything we see is a perspective, not the truth.”
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“There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.”
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“I would not cross this room to reform parliament or prevent the union or to bring about the millennium... - but man as part of a movement or a crowd is ... inhuman... the only feelings I have are for men as individuals; my loyalties, such as they may be, are to private persons alone.... Patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong, which is infamous, or my country is always right, which is imbecile.”
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“The poor go to war, to fight and die for the delights, riches, and superfluities of others.”
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Apr 11, 2020 04:38PM
Hey Brad! Haven’t talked to you in ages. How are you?
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First time in FOREVER! Don't know what possessed me. How are you, Miriam?
Happy New Year, Brad - all the best for 2014, and good luck with the new work!
So here's a random thing - I am reading this book about human rights for a seminar, and up pops China Mieville's name. Had no idea he also wrote stuff related to human rights and Marxism: http://www.haymarketbooks.org/pb/Betw...
Hi Brad, all the best for 2013 for you, the girls, teaching, and your writing :D
Merry Christmas Brad, to you and your family! We haven't chatted in awhile... How are things?
Thanks for accepting my friend request! You can check out my attempt to read 100 works of classic literature in under 6 years here:http://6years45000pages.blogspot.com
Thanks, Brad. I'll try not to abuse my new powers :)
Hey Brad, could you invite Ali Al-Hajamy to join the Serials Serially group? Friend o' mine, expressed some interest in reading The Count, so I figured he might like to join the group, participate in our somewhat flagging discussions, etc. He's cool. Ex-scout's honor!
Hi Brad. Thank you for your spoken audio reviews. As much as I enjoy reading, the spoken word is so powerful.
How is the Earthsea cycle? I REALLY need to get my paws on some more Ursula K. LeGuin. (Right now, though, I'm grappling with a Trainspotting essay.) I miss you.
I LOVE Vader Ghost with his arms cut off and the cool scarification.
Thanks for dropping by and commenting on it, Whitaker. I hope I win too. I don't even know what the prizes are, apart from knowing that you can get published.
Liked your reading, and enjoyed your short story, Our Yoko. Good luck! I hope you get it published.
Thanks, Eh?Eh! It was fun (reading it rather than living it). I think I am going to do more.
...your reading of PSS, it is THE BEST!!!!!!!Hah! I'm glad those vicious moths attacked you back then!
A short story of mine is competing for publication over at Second Wind Publishing, and they say that reader commentary will play a part in the final judging. So go take a look at my story, if you’ve some time, and leave a message. You may help me to victory and a place in their spring anthology.Click here for Our Yoko
And there's a bonus. It's not even bleak.
Brad wrote: "I just uncovered a reading journal my sister bought me at the turn of the century, and it includes about fifteen non-goodreads reviews of books I was reading at the time. Goody-goody-gumdrops! I am..."Looking forward to reading them, Brad.
I just uncovered a reading journal my sister bought me at the turn of the century, and it includes about fifteen non-goodreads reviews of books I was reading at the time. Goody-goody-gumdrops! I am going to put them in here without any editing. I bet they will be cringeworthy.
I look forward to doing the same thing with your reading lists, Lettie.
Hi Brad: Thanks for adding me as a friend! I see we have some of the same favorite authors, and I'm looking forward to perusing your shelves for new recommendations.Best,
Ummm ... very okay. I am honoured. Thanks, K.I.. I need to get me a signed copy of that. Any chance?
I know. You're right, Miriam. It is so frustrating, though.
Brad, as a parent you will probably feel better if you stop talking to those ladies on NGE's Harry Potter thread.
They laid eggs, so, many people said, they must have sex. There was no logic there. They were oil rigs. Dughan thought the belief exoneration of the strange prurience that endlessly turned on monoliths rutting miles down. An inhuman pornography of great slams and grinding, horrified whales veering from where one rig mounted another, warmed by hydrothermal vents."Horrified whales." What's not to like?
Jacob wrote: "Ok, so I kinda filed away that link to "Covehithe" you sent me way back in April, meant to read it later, plum forgot, sorry. But I just got to it now and OHMYGODTHATWASAWESOME."Glad you liked it, Jacob.
Ok, so I kinda filed away that link to "Covehithe" you sent me way back in April, meant to read it later, plum forgot, sorry. But I just got to it now and OHMYGODTHATWASAWESOME.
Jacob wrote: "New Mieville story! Awesome. Never would've found it otherwise, so thank you X1000!"Anytime, brother.
New Mieville story! Awesome. Never would've found it otherwise, so thank you X1000!
And thanks from me, too, Brad--I'm waiting on a copy of the new novel, so this will be like a little sausage-in-pie-crust appetizer...
Joel wrote: "Awesome, thanks! Now I know what I'm doing while bored at work today!"My pleasure.
Awesome, thanks! Now I know what I'm doing while bored at work today!
Thanks for the podcast, Leah. I am looking forward to actually listening to it.
FYI :)The London Graduate School at the University of Kingston presents:
The Weird: a discussion of fiction and politics with China Miéville
At the start of the twentieth century, H. P . Lovecraft summed up the encounter between horror and strangeness as ‘pictures of shattered natural laws’ and encounters with ‘cosmic outsideness’. At the start of the 21st century, the weird has alerted us, once again, to the persistence of this ‘mood or feeling’. The new weird – generically indeterminate as it is – offers a potent trope linking pasts and presents and opening new terrains for writing creatively and differently even though its political, philosphical and cultural ramifications may be less easy to fathom.This talk with China Miéville and the Faculty of Kingston’s London Graduate School and School of Humanities seeks to revisit the idea of the weird in fiction and politics. The session will betake the form of an open discussion where contributions from faculty and audience will consider the relevance of the idea of the weird to various fields of study in the humanities.
This event has been recorded and is available as a podcast at the following URL: http://backdoorbroadcasting.net/2011/...
Quite active with the visuals lately, yes? I anonymized (just made up that word) my profile pic out of sheer paranoia.
P.S. Next, I think you should grow a Decembeard.
