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Continue reading →: Book reviews 2022
I’ve been reading a lot in the last few years. Since the start of 2022 I’ve been posting potted reviews of each book on Twitter and giving it an unreliable and inconsistent rating out of 5. Now that Twitter is even more of a raging bin fire than it ever…
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Continue reading →: Another gay footballer at last?
The older I get, the closer I come to losing it entirely at Pride — in a good way. I marched again this year, and the waters rose first somewhere along Regent Street, when the shockwave of joy and smiles and rainbows and goddamn whistles and acceptance and unrelenting positivity…
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Continue reading →: Anthony vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda
I turned seventeen in the spring of 1986. Days later Chernobyl’s nuclear power station huffed radiation across northern Europe, causing sheep to glow in the Scottish Highlands (subs: please check). At the time, the Soviet Union’s fresh, thrusting, young fifty-something leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, was shouldering the tiller in an attempt…
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Continue reading →: Review: Armada
I confess I’ve struggled to articulate my thoughts on Ernest Cline’s Armada. As the tricky second book following a blockbuster like Ready Player One, the temptation for this reviewer is to throw down comparisons in an endless series of bullets: Ready Player One was like this, but Armada‘s like this,…
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Continue reading →: Review: Whispers Under Ground
And so to book three of Ben Aaronovitch‘s Peter Grant series: see my reviews of book one and book two to catch up with the meta-story so far. Whispers Under Ground is not the book I was expecting. I’m not sure what my expectations were, precisely: perhaps something focusing more…
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Anthony Camber 