Category: reading
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Review: The Silence (Paperback)
I’m gradually learning to be a bit more adventurous with my book choices, and those efforts continue to pay dividends with The Silence. I picked this book up not quite sure what to expect. This edition was a tie-in to a Netflix movie derived from the book that has middling reviews. I sensed something supernatural…
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Beating the Lockdown Tedium – Project Shoutouts
It’s the start of the Easter Holidays here in the UK, and the weather is lovely, but we can’t go out due to a national lockdown in relation to Coronavirus. But that doesn’t mean we need to all be bored – here’s a few projects of mine (and by some friends) I think may help…
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Review: Midnight in Chernobyl (Paperback)
In my quest to read more non-fiction; buoyed by last year’s acclaim for the HBO miniseries Chernobyl, I took a recommendation to read Midnight in Chernobyl. I had previously attempted a non-fiction book about the Chernobyl disaster, Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy – however I’d stalled on that one, and thus I…
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