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I loved this book – so why can’t I review it?

February 13, 2021 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

I feel like I’ve fallen at the first hurdle of this book blogging malarkey. The formula is simple, right? Read…

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Posted in: Book Review, Books Filed under: Book, Books, City Watch, Discworld, Fantasy, Reading, Review, Terry Pritchett

Christmas Book Haul and Tackling My TBR Pile

January 6, 2021 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

Firstly, excuse the lack of a ‘Happy New Year’ greeting. It’s just been announced that the UK is back in…

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Posted in: Books Filed under: Book, Books, Crime, Fantasy, Goals, Reading, Science Fiction

DNFing a book – and it wasn’t even that bad

December 3, 2020 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

I’m going to abandon my current read. Blue Remembered Earth, by Alastair Reynolds, will be added to the rather short…

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Posted in: Books, Life Goals Filed under: Book, Books, Goals, Reading, Science Fiction

The future always arrives when you’re not looking

November 23, 2020 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

Some farmers in Cornwall were still using threshing machines, a precursor of the combine harvester, when my dad was young.…

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Posted in: Ponderings Filed under: Future, Science Fiction, Technology
Hardback edition of Stuart Turton's The Devil and the Dark Water

The Devil and the Dark Water: Stuart Turton delivers one hell of a follow up

November 2, 2020 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

Stuart Turton was facing a mammoth task when he sat down to write his second book. It was a labour…

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Posted in: Book Review Filed under: Book, Crime, Review, Stuart Turton, Supernatural, The Devil and the Dark Water

Susanna Clarke’s Piranesi is beautiful, spellbinding, mesmerising. But…

October 12, 2020 Rewan Tremethick 2 Comments

ENTRY FOR THE TWELFTH DAY OF THE TENTH MONTH IN THE YEAR IN WHICH I READ PIRANESI Piranesi is a…

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Posted in: Book Review Filed under: Fantasy, Piranesi, Susanna Clarke

What my most successful tweet taught me about Twitter

September 24, 2020 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

The other night I had a tweet that was met with what was, for me, a large reaction. Like most…

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Posted in: Communication Filed under: Jon Ronson, Twitter

I’ve become a social media monk

September 13, 2020 Rewan Tremethick Leave a comment

I’ve become more moderate as I’ve gotten older. I don’t necessarily mean politically, although that is part of it, but…

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Posted in: Communication Filed under: Argumentation, Communication, Culture, Debate, Internet, Online, Opinion, Social Media

Discovering the third-life crisis, and remembering what I used to love

September 12, 2020 Rewan Tremethick 1 Comment

Once upon a time, a young boy (who then grew into an old boy and then, paradoxically, a young man)…

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Posted in: Life Goals Filed under: Books, Drawing, Goals, Lifestyle, Reading, Writing

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