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Philippa’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Philippa’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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My Wordpress site
I probably won't post much on this blog as I have a 'rudimentary' Wordpress site (which I've just updated today). If you're interested in my thoughts on science fiction, Star Trek and the journey to publish my memoir My Name is Philippa, the link is below
https://philippasjourney.travel.blog/
https://philippasjourney.travel.blog/
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| I haven't read anything by Neil Jordan before, I've only seen his cinematic work so when I picked this up recently I was intrigued. It's a strange book, a mix of science fiction, time travel (sort of) and a love story where the one of the main charac ...more | |
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| The third book in The Expanse series, great space opera, good story and characters. Having seen the Prime Video tv series I just had to get the books and haven't been disappointed. ...more | |
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| A really excellent collection of articles about Dublin and the Famine, a bit too academic for me but invaluable to those who would be interested in how the Famine affected Ireland's capital city, one of the jewels of the British Crown in the mid-1800 ...more | |
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| It would almost make you despair if you're an aspiring writer just how good a writer Colm Tóibín is! I've read a number of his books now but this is the first short fiction collection for me. Beautifully written and mainly set in Ireland (the last no ...more | |
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| The Mercator projection, wherein the surface of a sphere is mapped onto a flat plane requires some pretty difficult mathematics, as I well know from studying geodesy in university. So when I was given this as a Christmas present I was looking forward ...more | |
"Wow, this book is amazingly detailed and incredibly thorough, but it is also a bit overwhelming, and hard to read. If anything it contains too much information - making it (for me anyway) too hard to pull together into cohesive knowledge.
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| Not really my type of book, it was recommended as part of a 'Buy two get one half-price' deal by a bookseller. It's a very sad but nicely written book about an elderly man coming to the end of his life surrounded by his son and his beloved dog in Swe ...more | |
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