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Jonathan’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jonathan’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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The Angels of L19
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Push Process
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Five Wounds: An Illuminated Novel
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2010
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Pistols! Treason! Murder!: The Rise and Fall of a Master Spy
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A Zone
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Recent Photographic Work
After completing my zine, Greenock/Gourock, mentioned in a previous post, I continued working on two other photo zines also relating to Greenock: Fifty and Greenock Central to Glasgow Central. I then decided to combine all three into a book, with the images from each zine as a separate section or chapter. The book is called Gourock, Greenock, Glasgow. Below are the intro texts for each zine (these
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She watched him go away down the road. He did not look back, and soon he was gone around a bend. She turned and walked slowly up the hill. The sun had fallen behind the mountains, and the clouds, like bruised blood, were massing.As a " Read more of this review » |
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"Garage rock mavin and Sunday painter Billy Childish’s third novel is intriguing for its uncorrected text—the first work I’ve read from a dyslexic author where the inventive misspellings create a unique style that works in tandem with the alienation o"
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"A stunning debut. Raw, visceral, real. Don't think I'll read much better this year."
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"On the surface, Ketched is the story of a man trying and (repeatedly, self-sabotagingly) failing to conform to the roles prescribed to him: son, student, worker bee, partner, father, man. But the reasons for his failures are many, and they're not all"
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“His mind was freshly inclined toward sorrow; toward the fact that the world was full of sorrow; that everyone labored under some burden of sorrow; that all were suffering; that whatever way one took in this world, one must try to remember that all were suffering (none content; all wronged, neglected, overlooked, misunderstood), and therefore one must do what one could to lighten the load of those with whom one came into contact; that his current state of sorrow was not uniquely his, not at all, but, rather, its like had been felt, would be felt, by scores of others, in all times, in every time, and must not be prolonged or exaggerated, because, in this state, he could be of no help to anyone and, given that his position in the world situated him to be either of great help, or great harm, it would not do to stay low, if he could help it.”
― Lincoln in the Bardo
― Lincoln in the Bardo
“Ninety-nine per cent of traditional English literature concerns people who never have to worry about money at all. We always seem to be watching or reading about emotional crises among folk who live in a world of great fortune both in matters of luck and money; stories and fantasies about rock stars and film stars, sporting millionaires and models; jet-setting members of the aristocracy and international financiers.”
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