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Ali Jon’s 2025 Year in Books
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Warhammer Taught Me to Read
Anyone else had their first brush with literature at the Black Library?
When I was 10, I struggled with words. I loved books, but only when my father would read them to me. Children’s classics like The Silver Sword passed under my nose, but I gleaned nothing more than a vague sense of what they were about (even Sally the Seagull pushed me beyond my tolerance for frustration). I had no idea this was Read more of this blog post »
When I was 10, I struggled with words. I loved books, but only when my father would read them to me. Children’s classics like The Silver Sword passed under my nose, but I gleaned nothing more than a vague sense of what they were about (even Sally the Seagull pushed me beyond my tolerance for frustration). I had no idea this was Read more of this blog post »
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Arden: The Astonishing Untold Story of Shakespeare's First Play:
"The story here should be fascinating, and the author does a laudable job of trying to be honest to history, as much as it can be known. However, I think I'd rather read a scholarly article on this topic than a book-length work of fiction.
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| I found this book gratingly boring. Characters are wafer thin and in the case of Shakespeare, completely (an unforgivably) devoid of personality. To me it seemed more an exercise in cramming in as many facts the author had read about Elizabethan Engl ...more | |
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| I am not a practical yacht person and a lot of the advice in this book went over my head. Indeed, there were whole paragraphs where I didn't understand a single noun. I was mostly reading for research and flavour, to flesh out the nautical sections o ...more | |
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| The author’s talent oozes out of every sentence, a very fine work indeed. This collection of short stories is by turns comic and tragic, united by the theme of the impossibility of knowing truth. Tyll, the titular jester who intrudes in most of the s ...more | |
"This book was a little weird to get into. It was maybe a more serious version of Magic Tree House with a full plot with real stakes involved. There were some minor editorial errors that were noticeable. The ending was also very predictable. This didn"
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| I played this through quite a few times, finally succeeding with an amazing initial stats roll and liberal use of the finger-shaped save point. Thing is I didn’t really enjoy it, I was just being bloody minded. Very much a complex dungeon to be unrav ...more | |
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| An interesting local history - still the 'go-to' book for Bardney despite its age. Though more a collection of history snippets than a chosevive story about the village. No historical map, which always drops these books a star in my opinion. ...more | |
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| A well written book about the darkest moment in human history. I liked the characters and the way their lives of domesticity abruptly, brutally crashes into the reality of Dachu, followed by the iota of solace they find in each other. For the most pa ...more | |
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