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A Grim Almanac of York
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2015
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A Grim Almanac of Edinburgh & the Lothians
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2009
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Jack the Ripper and the Irish Press
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| I’ve been trying, recently, to read the old Booker Prize winners. I figure if I read at least one or two per year, I’m bound to catch up eventually. For the most part, I’ve been surprised by them, most of them were not what I expected to be like at a ...more | |
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| So, it’s The Expanse volume 4, and as with the previous books, the canvas on which it is painted has grown bigger. The third book dealt with securing the ring system built by an unknowable ancient alien race that allows for interstellar travel. Now w ...more | |
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You could say that this is a book that starts with a bang. On a small road somewhere in rural Wisconsin, a man blows himself up with a homemade bomb. Who is he? Was it an accident or suicide? Why did he have a bomb in the first place. All of these are ...more |
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“ Was I sleeping, while the others suffered? Am I sleeping now? Tomorrow, when I wake, or think I do, what shall I say of today? That with Estragon my friend, at this place, until the fall of night, I waited for Godot? That Pozzo passed, with his carrier, and that he spoke to us? Probably. But in all that what truth will there be? He'll know nothing. He'll tell me about the blows he received and I'll give him a carrot. (pause) Astride of a grave and a difficult birth. Down in the hole, lingeringly, the grave digger puts on the forceps. We have time to grow old. The air is full of our cries. But habit is a great deadener. At me too someone is looking, of me too someone is saying, He is sleeping, he knows nothing, let him sleep on. (Pause.) I can't go on! (Pause.) What have I said? ”
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