DB’s blog Vox 2009-08-14T06:15:24Z DB http://dpbirk.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom tag:vox.com,2006:6p00cd978afcd1f9cc/ More Gaiman. Good fun tag:vox.com,2009-08-14:asset-6a00cd978afcd1f9cc01101861c408860f 2009-08-14T06:15:24Z 2009-08-14T06:15:24Z DB http://dpbirk.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom

Anansi Boys

Loaned to me by a friend at work.

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The Graveyard Book

Pretty good. I was off work with a gammy leg & read about half of it in one go.

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Coleridge: Darker Reflections

A random prezzy from my mum, that had been gathering dust. Picked it up in a hurry to take on ho;iday - glad I did. Lots of good reviews & I can see why.

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The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (Wordsworth Classics)

OK - I know I quaff more than I should anyway, but really, such a self-righteous, humourless prig. Still and all, I enjoyed the book enough to finish it. I didn't see the Toby Stephens/Tara Fitzgerald BBC adaptation - sounds like it should have be...

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The Reality Dysfunction (Night's Dawn Trilogy)

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]]> Oxegen on Saturday & Sunday tag:vox.com,2009-07-14:asset-6a00cd978afcd1f9cc0110184dd5a3860f 2009-07-14T06:13:11Z 2009-07-14T13:49:26Z DB http://dpbirk.vox.com/?_c=feed-atom After enjoying a day there last year accompanying youngest daughter, I decided I would go this year even if an adult's presence wasn't required (it was, by the way). Saturday was horrible - enjoyed Saw Doctors, Squeeze and The Blizzards early on,...

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The Well-Tempered Synthesizer

A Fathers' Day prezzy. See my review on amazon.co.uk

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Greatest Hits

Birthday prezzy. See my review on amazon.co.uk

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Les Misérables, tome 1

Not the cover of the edition I read, but anyway..A doorstep of a book, and this is only the first half! I rather enjoyed it though, particularly when he got on with the story. What I didn't like were his discursive essays - an analysis of the Batt...

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Endymion (Gollancz S.F.)

Good follow up to the Hyperion books.

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