Bii's Books

Sunday, 6 March 2016

It's been a while

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It's been a while since I've posted anything here. I had this crazy idea that I would focus on my writing rather than blogging, as t...
Saturday, 4 July 2015

The Faraway Nearby by Rebecca Solnit

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Every book is a kind of encounter, an encounter with the mind of the writer and whatever it is about themself that they choose to reveal. S...
Sunday, 7 June 2015

The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd

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“It is a tale too slow for the impatience of our age,” Shepherd writes in 1947 and 58 years later it is an observation which couldn’t feel ...
Monday, 1 June 2015

Treasures

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As an inveterate book buyer, almost unapologetic, recently released to a book buying spree, I often try to understand what it is that makes...
Friday, 29 May 2015

Trying to Keep Still by Jenny Diski

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I had just started my latest attempt at book writing, limiting my reading and blogging to one book a week, when I picked up this book by Je...
Sunday, 24 May 2015

The Narrow Road to the Deep North & Other Travel Sketches by Matsuo Basho (translator Nobuyuki Yuasa)

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No, not that Narrow Road to the Deep North, the ubiquitous Booker winning novel by Richard Flanagan gracing every shelf of every bookshop ...
Saturday, 16 May 2015

High Rise by J. G. Ballard

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I was walking to work recently and I was thinking about J. G. Ballard, I’m not sure why. For some reason J. G. Ballard popped into my head,...
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