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XMAS BOOK GUIDE
22 December 2021
By Londnr
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Xmas Book Guide

It’s the time of the year when instead of much deserved calm and peace you feel the anxious pressure of sending out cards in time, trying to figure

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ANTI-BLACK FRIDAY BOOKLIST
26 November 2021
By Londnr
Dinner with a book

Anti-Black Friday Booklist

Black Friday isn’t the cheerful day American retailers set up with the jolly intention of easing your holiday shopping. Stories of fights, injuries

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TO THE LAKE
19 November 2021
By Londnr
Dinner with a book

To The Lake

At the time of writing this article, the world is in its second year of the Covid-19 pandemic. A quarter billion tested positive and five million peop

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THE WHITE ALBUM
16 July 2021
By Londnr
Dinner with a book

The White Album

What might seem excessive is in fact only reasonable. There is no plot, the narrative is broken into a collage of impressions and facts, and it isn’

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ROMANCE OF THE THIN MAN AND THE FAT LADY
25 June 2021
By Londnr
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Romance of the Thin Man and the Fat Lady

The first story, after which this book is named, is a ludicrous circus romance between a Thin Man and his Fat Lady, who are 'more or less the ultimate

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THE COMMITTED
28 May 2021
By Londnr
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The Committed

The novel opens with les boat-people, a belittling term under which Vietnamese fleeing from occupied/liberated (depending on whom you are speaking to)

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WHY I AM NOT GOING TO BUY A COMPUTER
14 May 2021
By Londnr
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Why I am not Going to Buy a Computer

Back in the 1980s Wendell Berry argued that he does not need a computer to write, despite everyone around him saying so.

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HOW TO DO NOTHING
30 April 2021
By Londnr
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How to do Nothing

When someone announces on social media that they are going to take a break from it, we no longer smirk. What seemed funny and pretentious just a few y

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THE HIGH HOUSE
16 April 2021
By Londnr
Dinner with a book

The High House

This April it’s Jessie Greengrass and The High House, which tells the tale of a small group trying to survive in a flooded holiday village in Englan

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EAT A PEACH
2 April 2021
By Londnr
Dinner with a book

Eat a Peach

David Chang is a charming egomaniac, and his book Eat a Peach is a testament to his career as a chef...

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