Radio National is running a vote on the top 100 Australian books until October 1. You can vote for up to 10 books. My votes are below. Science fiction is not as dominant in my votes as I thought it
I have just updated my original review of The Slap on Goodreads. I wanted to read The Slap after reading that it was written with eight distinctive voices. The novel also won a boatload of awards. It is split into
Shroud is the second novel by Adrian Tchaikovsky that I have read. The other was Children of Time. Both had humans battling a non-human collective. Both made me think about how humans might interact with sentient non-humans. Both novels are
I’ve quit Facebook due to its utter enshittification. My feed was full of scams, AI slop and ads. Facebook has no morals, as it pays far-right groups for rage-bait. I could no longer link to my blog posts, etc., because
I am still correcting the formatting of many of my old blog posts, created before August 2014, on this blog. When I transferred the posts from Blogger, they didn’t format correctly, with many false sentence breaks. Any links in these
ABC Radio National ran a survey in October of the top 100 books of this century, as voted by listeners. You could vote for up to 10 books. My votes are shown in the image. Five of them are
I have been quiet on this blog because my mum died on the 23rd of December. It was unexpected. A fall, which seemed to do no damage, then a week later she died. With help from my sister, I organised
Books by Martha Wells are consistently mentioned in social media science fiction groups as favourite reads, so I decided to read one of her novels to see what her imagination and writing are like. I chose All Systems Red as it
After some thought, I have decided to continue blogging as I enjoy reading, researching, and writing for each post. Just one post a week once I settle back down (you can sign up to receive notification of a post using
Due to the lack of likes and comments, it would seem either no one is interested in the subjects I blog about, I am a terrible blogger, the only things looking at my posts are bots, or maybe all three
The Australian Macquarie Dictionary has declared enshittification 2024’s word of the year. The dictionary defines it as: “The gradual deterioration of a service or product brought about by a reduction in the quality of service provided, especially of an online
If ever there was an epic novel, War and Peace is that novel. Its 1440 pages cover 1805 to 1813, which encompasses the period leading up to Napoleon’s invasion of Russia to a few years after his ultimate defeat. This
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