Monthly Archives: November 2010

16 November, 2010

A label is half the battle

A Painter of Our Time, by John Berger I’ve recently had to abandon two great books shortly after starting them. Long hours at work have killed my concentration and led to too little time to really get stuck in to … Continue reading →

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7 November, 2010

Keep cool, fool

The Real Cool Killers, by Chester Himes I read (and wrote about, here) the first of Chester Himes’ Harlem detective novels back in March 2009. It was a larger than life portrait of 1950s Harlem that showed it as an … Continue reading →

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1 November, 2010

Its edge was bright as new chrome.

Burning Chrome, by William Gibson William Gibson was made famous by his 1984 novel Neuromancer. Before that though he was already well known on the SF scene, and he’d had a number of short stories published. 1986 saw those short … Continue reading →

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