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Who We Are and How We Got Here by David Reich #review and my #reading in April

Posted by | Published on April 27, 2018

“The breakthrough that all archaeologists have been waiting for; a truly exciting account of the way in which ancient DNA is making us rethink prehistory. […] 

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The Shepherd’s Hut by Tim Winton #review and my #reading in March

Posted by | Published on April 1, 2018

You’re a kid, you don’t know anything. Mum said school mighta been different for me if I only give a damn. Maybe it was wasted […] 

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#Essays #TheRubofTime #FeelFree #review and my #reading in February

Posted by | Published on February 25, 2018

The day-to-day business of compiling a novel often seems to consist of nothing but decisions – decisions, decisions, decisions. Should this paragraph go here? Or […] 

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Lost Connections by Johann Hari #review and my #reading in January

Posted by | Published on January 28, 2018

“We have been systematically misinformed about what depression and anxiety are.”                              […] 

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George Orwell aka Eric Blair (1903-50) is now clearly second only to Shakespeare in the pantheon of English literary giants. In our current contemporary context, where hyperbole is coin of […] 

Orwell’s typewriter  →

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“I am just on the grisly job of typing out my novel. I can’t type much because it tires me too much to sit up at table, and I asked […] 

#STC1984 #Orwell A New Adaptation by Icke & MacMillan #review and my #reading in July  →

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“I think we’ve ended up being incredibly faithful to the book.” Duncan MacMillan George Orwell’s last novel, published in 1949, was not expected to have much of a shelf life […] 

Homage to Stansky and Abrahams: Orwell’s first biographers*  →

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“I request that no memorial service be held for me after my death and that no biography of me shall be written.”  (Eric Blair, 18 January 1950) “Perhaps Orwell was […] 

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