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How the World Works - Noam Chomsky
How the World Works
Noam Chomsky
The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939 - W.H. Auden
The English Auden: Poems, Essays and Dramatic Writings, 1927-1939
W.H. Auden
Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's - Samuel Hynes
Auden Generation: Literature and Politics in England in the 1930's
Samuel Hynes
Collected Poems - W.H. Auden
Collected Poems
W.H. Auden

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How the World Works - Noam Chomsky
Kasparov: How His Predecessors Misled Him About Chess - Tibor Karolyi, Nick Aplin
Futurism: An Anthology - Lawrence Rainey, Christine Poggi, Laura Wittman
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February 2019
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I obtained this huge collection in paperback and second hand; for all my care, towards the end it had begun to split from its...
The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis - Cecil Day-Lewis
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The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis - Cecil Day-Lewis
February 2019
26
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February 2019
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reviewed: C Day-Lewis: A Life
This is a relaxed and highly readable, chronological account of Day-Lewis’s life story. It not only provides an introduction...
C Day-Lewis: A Life - Peter Stanford
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The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis - Cecil Day-Lewis
The Complete Poems of C. Day Lewis Cecil Day-Lewis
finished reading:
C Day-Lewis: A Life - Peter Stanford
C Day-Lewis: A Life Peter Stanford
January 2019
26
reviewed: The Orators
The Orators was Auden’s second book, published in 1932 when he was still only starting out in his career as a poet. It occup...
The Orators - W.H. Auden
finished reading:
The Orators - W.H. Auden
The Orators W.H. Auden
January 2019
08
reviewed: Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain
I have already read Damasio's 2003 book, Looking for Spinoza: Joy, Sorrow, and the Feeling Brain, and while it was interestin...
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain - Antonio R. Damasio
finished reading:
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain - Antonio R. Damasio
Descartes' Error: Emotion, Reason and the Human Brain Antonio R. Damasio
January 2019
04
reviewed: Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems
I have two volumes of poems by Jibanananda Das, translated by Joe Winter. Bengal the Beautiful is a collection of sonnets all...
Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems - Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
finished reading:
Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems - Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
Naked Lonely Hand: Selected Poems Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
January 2019
01
reviewed: Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone
Early in this novel, Baldwin devotes a few pages to a humorous comparison of the ways French, Swiss and Italian border guards...
Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin
finished reading:
Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone - James Baldwin
Tell Me How Long The Train's Been Gone James Baldwin
December 2018
28
reviewed: The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (paperback)
“Was there ever a better hour for gaiety? Who will sing us a song, a morning song, so sunny, so light, so full-fledged that ...
The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (paperback) - Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff, Adrian Del Caro
finished reading:
The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (paperback) - Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff, Adrian Del Caro
The Gay Science: with a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs (paperback) Friedrich Nietzsche, Bernard Williams, Josefine Nauckhoff, Adrian Del Caro
December 2018
18
finished reading:
A General Theory of Oblivion - José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn
A General Theory of Oblivion José Eduardo Agualusa, Daniel Hahn
December 2018
14
reviewed: Frantz Fanon: A Biography
This is certainly among the best biographies I have encountered. The subject, Frantz Fanon, was complex and challenging and h...
Frantz Fanon: A Biography - David Macey
finished reading:
Frantz Fanon: A Biography - David Macey
Frantz Fanon: A Biography David Macey
November 2018
21
reviewed: I Married a Communist
This book gets two stars and I nearly always give five with my reviews. I picked up and read this book when my daughter accid...
I Married a Communist - Philip Roth
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I Married a Communist - Philip Roth
I Married a Communist Philip Roth
October 2018
14
reviewed: HERmione
Initially this seemed worth reading on the grounds that it is autobiographical, because I have been introduced to H.D. throug...
HERmione - H.D.
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HERmione - H.D.
HERmione H.D.
September 2018
29
reviewed: The Second Sex
This translation, by Constance Borde and Sheila Malovany-Chevalier, published in 2011, is the best of two available Englis...
The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Constance Borde
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The Second Sex - Simone de Beauvoir, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Constance Borde
The Second Sex Simone de Beauvoir, Sheila Malovany-Chevallier, Constance Borde
September 2018
26
reviewed: Bengal the Beautiful
In a Guardian review artical, 8 September 2018, Amit Chadhuri referred to Jibanananda Das as one of the most “wilfully underr...
Bengal the Beautiful - Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
finished reading:
Bengal the Beautiful - Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
Bengal the Beautiful Jibanananda Das, Joe Winter
September 2018
20
reviewed: Against Love Poetry: Poems
Boland uses the first half of this collection to set out her thoughts on the nature of love, and the remaining poems display ...
Against Love Poetry: Poems - Eavan Boland
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Against Love Poetry: Poems - Eavan Boland
Against Love Poetry: Poems Eavan Boland
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