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‘Am I Screwing Over the Book Industry By Releasing My Work for Free?’ and Other Existential Questions
Over the weekend Maggie Stiefvater wrote about the implications of book piracy and, when the Internet told her off, told a story about dealing with book piracy. You can read them both at your leisure (the story is worth five minutes of your time for its sneaky genius alone). Today I want to talk about Continue reading
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Happy New Year!
Happy new financial year! I weirdly feel like it’s a fresh start, because even though we’re already one quarter into 2016 and nothing has changed since Tuesday, I have a new spreadsheet and a new folder and so far I’ve stuck to my to-do list because this will be my year goddamnit. Speaking of making Continue reading
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Review: ‘About a Boy’, Nick Hornby
This review is the first that feels a little like cheating because I had actually seen bits of the film on TV, about 10 years ago. All I could remember before starting the novel is that Hugh Grant’s in the film and so’s that guy who went on to be in Skins (I think?). So Continue reading
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Review: ‘Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe’, Benjamin Alire Sáenz
This is a spoiler-free review except for the bits you can guess from the title. Oh look, something else I originally saw on Tumblr, probably courtesy of feistiest. You know how they say you should never judge a book by its cover, but we all do? With this, the cover – by Chloë Foglia -made me Continue reading
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