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Christopher’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Christopher’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Christopher Walker
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The Madrid Review – What Am I Writing Here: Lessons from Bruce Chatwin
I started this year by (re)reading everything of Bruce Chatwin’s that I could get my hands on. He was an amazing talent and died far too young. As I was reading, I wondered – what could novice writers like myself learn from his work? This article is the result of my wonderings.
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| It took me a long, long time to read this one, but of course it did - there's not a huge amount of plot but there is a huge amount of narrative and omniscient thinking; but it's a great book and I'm glad I read it. ...more | |
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This is How You Lose the Time War:
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What it comes down to is that I'm simply not enough of a romantic to enjoy this book. The appeal lies squarely in the flowery language written in love poems between two post-human women on opposite sides of a time travel war. I just happen" Read more of this review » |
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There were a few things that I liked about this collaborative speculative fiction novella, one being the writing itself, which, though occasionally stumbling over the line into pretentiousness, is overall of a high standard. But the rest - I disliked ...more |
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| Excellent, simply excellent. One of the best Westerns I've read. Trim, lean, unsparing, and with some memorable characters. Funny thing, though - there are aspects to the film that I feel I prefer, especially the ending (no spoilers here, don't worry ...more | |
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| I picked this up for loose change in a little bookshop in Vienna, and finally got around to reading it when I hit Brussels, back in 2003 when I was touring Europe by rail. It has since become one of my favourite books, and it is the book I first thin ...more | |
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| This is an attractively produced book and covers a range of interesting walking-related topics, but I didn't enjoy the writer's style and felt that he went too far away from his central concerns. If he'd walked more and written more about those walks ...more | |
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Tiny Book Author: There's a Tiny Book in You Waiting to Be Written
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| Another successful book much in the vein of Any Language You Want, though this one serves to motivate the reader to put their ideas down on paper and work towards the creation of their own tiny book, rather than to learn a new language. I suppose a c ...more | |
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| This is the kind of book I like most. It is an adult exploration of a difficult topic, seen through the lens of complex characters who are themselves adult - intelligent, witty, and always flawed in some way. The writing scintillates without ever dra ...more | |
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| Another Gladwell book written in that Gladwell style - he sure knows how to craft a non-patronising page turner. One small problem - not his fault of course - is that this is a style that can, with practice, be easily and readily copied, and I think ...more | |
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| A challenging read, that's the first thing to say. Split into short chapters, each of which runs to one sentence (though I would go so far as to say that this is cheating on the part of the author, as there is no reason for each chapter to run on lik ...more | |
“I prefer just to live in my memories, to look at the map and consider what it was like when I followed the river as far as I could on a cool day early in autumn last year, that this long purple line represents happiness - no, it’s more than that. The purple line is fleeting happiness made permanent. Yes, I can live with thinking about it that way.”
― Witnesses to the World: Volume 1: 20 Stories set in Europe
― Witnesses to the World: Volume 1: 20 Stories set in Europe
“The death rate remains 100 per cent, and the pattern of the final days, and the way we actually die, are unchanged. What is different is that we have lost the familiarity we once had with that process, and we have lost the vocabulary and etiquette that served us so well in past times, when death was acknowledged to be inevitable. Instead of dying in a dear and familiar room with people we love around us, we now die in ambulances and emergency rooms and intensive care units, our loved ones separated from us by the machinery of life preservation.”
― With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
― With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
“There are only two days with fewer than twenty-four hours in each lifetime, sitting like bookends astride our lives: one is celebrated every year, yet it is the other that makes us see living as precious.”
― With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
― With the End in Mind: Dying, Death, and Wisdom in an Age of Denial
“rather than thinking about schooling that offers only two options, university or work, there ought to be an education system that ends just with qualifications in the humanities or sciences, because whoever ends up becoming, for example, a sanitation worker will need the intellectual training necessary to plan and program his or her own reemployment. This is not an abstract democratic and egalitarian ideal. It’s the same logic as that of working in a computerized society, which requires the same education for all and is modeled on the highest, not the lowest, standard. Otherwise, innovation will always and only produce unemployment.”
― Chronicles of a Liquid Society
― Chronicles of a Liquid Society
“An old saying had it that war is too serious to be left to the military. These days it needs bringing up to date: the world has become too complex to be left to those who used to run it.”
― Chronicles of a Liquid Society
― Chronicles of a Liquid Society
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