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Warwick’s 2024 Year in Books
Take a look at Warwick’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Warwick Wise
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His Devilish Art
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Eleanor's review
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The Hound of the Baskervilles (Sherlock Holmes, #5):
"I’d somehow never read this before! It’s like The Odyssey or Dracula, I guess; most people, if pressed, could come up with the basics of plot and premise because it’s in the wider cultural awareness. Having read it, I’m even more incensed that the BB"
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Well thanks Sel! A hard book to summarise on the back cover, I suspect.
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"I found this charming but also a bit unfocused. Somehow Isherwood's style in this memoir didn't grab me the way his writing in The Berlin Novels did - and, equally, it's the life in Berlin that came over far more vividly than the rest. It was hard fo"
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"Laing writes a fictional account of the production of Pier Paolo Pasolini's Salò? COUNT. ME. IN! Based on The 120 Days of Sodom, or The School of Libertinage by the Marquis de Sade, Pasolini has crafted a critique of fascism and capitalism where he t"
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Warwick
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Left Coast Justin's review
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The Vagina Business: The Innovative Breakthroughs that Could Change Everything in Women's Health:
"After my bitter Chocolate, I was looking for something sweeter to add to my Thanksgiving project -- reflecting on things that have beneficially impacted my life. Money and vaginas both land on the short list, so when I saw The Vagina Business winking"
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Paul Bryant’s review
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The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Sherlock Holmes, #4)
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I have the same big annotated edition, and the notes are hilariously pedantic.
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I didn't really think of it as a negative review exactly, I enjoyed the book…but there are some slightly silly aspects to it.
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I’m looking forward to it! I’m saving that as a treat for my Christmas break.
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| There are good books and there are bad books. And then there are books like this – a book so excruciatingly objectionable that it retrospectively fills me with scorn and embarrassment for its author, much of whose fiction I have previously enjoyed ve ...more | |
“It may be that The Great Gatsby is as perfect, word for word, just in terms of English; but Ulysses is deeper, richer, wider – and is comic, whereas The Great Gatsby is a tragic novel. And I think all great art is comic art.
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“Sometimes you do it to save face, thought Jerry, other times you just do it because you haven't done your job unless you've scared yourself to death. Other times again, you go in order to remind yourself that survival is a fluke. But mostly you go because the others go; for machismo; and because in order to belong you must share.”
― The Honourable Schoolboy
― The Honourable Schoolboy
“A good poem is a tautology. It expands one word by adding a number which clarify it, thus making a new word which has never before been spoken. The seedword is always so ordinary that hardly anyone perceives it. Classical odes grow from and or because, romantic lyrics from but and if. Immature verses expand a personal pronoun ad nauseam, the greatest works bring glory to a common verb. Good poems, therefore, are always close to banality, over which, however, they tower like precipices.”
― Every Short Story, 1951-2012
― Every Short Story, 1951-2012
“Men are all the same. Novelty amongst themselves displeases and upsets them – but if the novelty is wearing a skirt, they go crazy for it.
(Les hommes sont tous les mêmes. L'étrangeté leur déplaît, d'homme à homme, et les blesse ; mais si l'étrangeté porte des jupes, ils en raffolent.)”
― Les Diaboliques
(Les hommes sont tous les mêmes. L'étrangeté leur déplaît, d'homme à homme, et les blesse ; mais si l'étrangeté porte des jupes, ils en raffolent.)”
― Les Diaboliques
“Her book was filled with centaurs because she had not fully grasped the complexity of actual people, actual horses.”
― Every Short Story, 1951-2012
― Every Short Story, 1951-2012
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Hi Warwick. What are your top10 fiction books of all time?
Hi Warwick, many thanks for your friendship, much appreciated. IainIain Cameron Williams is the author of The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue. The KAHNS of Fifth Avenue
‘Hope is a place best not forgotten’ —Iain Cameron Williams 🇺🇦
Jan-Maat wrote: "Hi,you might be interested to know that the Courtnould gallery in London have an exhibition:
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
14 Oct 2022 – 8 Jan 2023"
Mate, thank you! I had not seen this - will probably go to London to check it out
Hi,you might be interested to know that the Courtnould gallery in London have an exhibition:
Fuseli and the Modern Woman: Fashion, Fantasy, Fetishism
14 Oct 2022 – 8 Jan 2023
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to you, Warwick!
Happy New Year!May 2020 bring you joy, happiness, and prosperity. Here's to another decade filled with lots of blessings 💕
Roman Clodia wrote: "Hi Warwick, I love your reviews - and anyone who adores The Faerie Queene as much as me is already a friend ;)"Thanks! I'm pleased we're finally connected.
Hi Warwick, I love your reviews - and anyone who adores The Faerie Queene as much as me is already a friend ;)
Good morning, Warwick.So great to meet you here on GR. I look forward to following your updates and maybe an occasional bookish chat.
All my best,
Rob
Antonomasia wrote: "Jargon in the humanities - you may find this amusing, infuriating, or both: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/..."I thought that was absolutely brilliant. Surprised to see how much push-back he gets in the comments.
Jargon in the humanities - you may find this amusing, infuriating, or both: https://www.timeshighereducation.com/...
Nicole wrote: "From the Hofstadter book, for you: "Serious faults in style are rarely, if ever, matters of 'mere' style; they embody real difficulties in conception.""
Mmmmmm I couldn't agree more. Thanks!
From the Hofstadter book, for you: "Serious faults in style are rarely, if ever, matters of 'mere' style; they embody real difficulties in conception."
oh, that's weird. I thought we were too. Thanks for making it official.
Thanks for adding, Looking forward to a bookful interaction.
Hello Warwick, Thanks for being my friend. Looking forward to have mutually enlightening bookish interactions with you.
Vipassana wrote: "Thanks for accepting my request, Warwick. I've read several of your reviews and look forward to our exchanges :)"Likewise, and thank you!
Thanks for accepting my request, Warwick. I've read several of your reviews and look forward to our exchanges :)
So the neutrons ask the protons, how come we never hang out with the electrons? And the protons sigh and say, they're just always so negative.
Hello Warwick. Once again stopping by to say hello and wish you a great weekend. I'll be spending mine reading, trying out a new exquisite recipe I got my hands on, and cleaning out my patio. The only part of my weekend I am not looking forward to. Albeit...looking forward to the final result!
To be real, the question is mostly to parse out the friend collectors and the title-pushers, less to judge anyone's response, per se, but I did enjoy yours!
Hi Warwick, thanks for accepting the req. Looking forward to discussing books with you.
Hello Warwick. I'm stopping by to say hello and thank you for all of your great reviews. Also, to wish you a wonderful Wednesday. Happy reading.
Lotz wrote: "Pleasure making your acquaintance :-)."Likewise! Thanks for the request.
Thanks for accepting my friend request. I look forward to reading more of your reviews.
That's great! I'm delighted the series is being issued in English, and I hope you get something out of it. I haven't got to the Leaning Girl yet, although I've read the earlier, children's version of the story which is currently included in La route d'Armilia. The central character, Mary von Rathen, ends up being quite a significant one in the series overall.
Warwick, I've bookmarked your review of La Tour (Les Cités obscures, #4). Many thanks for it, I now have the first of the new series being published in English, The Leaning Girl.
Thanks for the friend request. Your reviews are always smart and honest, but the add invite was a little embarrassing because I thought we already were friends. Like for months. I'm a little thick sometimes.
Hi Warwick - thank you for the friend request!Please feel free to explore my shelves - I look forward to exploring yours and talking about books. :)
Glenn wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request, Warwick. Looks as though you are a lover of books and ideas, which is great! I hope my reviews and comments occasionally reach your high standards.Look f..."
Thanks for getting in touch, Glenn. I am very much looking forward to exploring your shelves a little…
Thanks for accepting my friend request, Warwick. Looks as though you are a lover of books and ideas, which is great! I hope my reviews and comments occasionally reach your high standards.Look forward to sharing.
Steelwhisper wrote: "Thank you for the friending! I'm warning you though about this being my erotica/romance penname, and I can get rather rantsy and very outspoken and NSFW in my comments and reviews. So if that is ..."
Ha! On the contrary, I welcome it! (As you might infer from the end of my description above)
Thank you for the friending! I'm warning you though about this being my erotica/romance penname, and I can get rather rantsy and very outspoken and NSFW in my comments and reviews. So if that is a problem for you, you might prefer filtering me out of your feed. I don't want to overwhelm or shock anyone needlessly :)
Warwick, thanks for accepting my request! Looking forward to your updates, reviews and book discussions.
Sounds overwhelming! I don't remember how old your daughter is -- she's not in school yet, is she?
Just recommended a book to you --100 Cupboards. It might be fun to read to your daughter. Upon reading it, the book seems like something you could read to a young child and they would get a lot out of it.
I'm sure! That's quite a move. New job as well?
