Tag: Orwell
#UtopiaforRealists #review and my #reading in May
Consider this: The word utopia means both “good place” and “no place.” What we need are alternative horizons that spark the imagination. And I do […]
The Handmaid’s Tale #review and my #reading in April
“Our big mistake was teaching them to read. We won’t do that again.” The Handmaid’s Tale p. 307 I suspected re-reading The Handmaid’s Tale (1985) by Margaret Atwood prior […]
My #reading April 2016
Every day I work on the edit of my book. I slog away, shifting chunks of material and moving them back, eating my salad in […]
February 2015: My Reading
There’s been a good variety of books completed this month including graphic novels, historical fiction, essays, memoirs, biographies, contemporary fiction, revolutionary pamphlets and plenty of […]
January 2015: My Reading
It is not a New Year’s resolution but I intend to write one blog post a month about what I’ve been reading. Usually I write […]
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#Churchill and #Orwell: The Fight for Freedom #review and my #reading in June
“The Struggle to see things as they are is perhaps the fundamental driver of Western civilisation. There is a long direct line from Aristotle and […]