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The City & The City, Closing Thoughts
On today’s menu: All sorts of things rattling around my brain. I came into this expecting something kind of like Kraken or Neverwhere. I probably shouldn’t have had those expectations, given that the… more →
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Writer Wednesday - Jason S. Walters
wrote 1 week ago: Let’s start with the basics. Who are you? I’m Jason S. Walters. Tell us (briefly) about … more →
Sex & The City & The City
wrote 1 month ago: There isn’t any. Sex, I mean. We’re told that Inspector Tyador Borlú has a few friends-w … more →
China Miéville
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wrote 2 months ago: China Miéville’s stories take you places where you are not sure you are. I often read passages … more →
Society is like sex in that no one knows what perversions it can develop once aesthetic considerations are allowed to dictate its choices
wrote 2 months ago: M. John Harrison, the great British anti-fantasy writer has written brilliant screeds against world … more →
China Miéville and Monsters: “Unsatisfy me, frustrate me, I beg you.
wrote 3 months ago: China Miéville (Photo credit: Squirmelia) A highly recommended interview with China Mieville … more →
The City & The City, by China Mieville
wrote 4 months ago: The premise of China Mieville’s The City & The City is intriguing, but wasted. Basically, … more →
In which Netty gets a little hot under the collar about China Mieville ...
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wrote 4 months ago: A few years ago, Andy dragged me along to a Melbourne Writer’s Festival event featuring British sci- … more →
You Can Learn from Anything
wrote 4 months ago: Case in point, I was watching Dexter yesterday. Yes, I know I was supposed to be reading, but I was … more →
book review: the last policeman
wrote 4 months ago: I’ve probably mentioned before how rare it is for me to read a straight-up mystery (and not so … more →
Best Laid Plans
wrote 4 months ago: OK, yesterday’s plan was to spend the day on the couch reading all of The City & The City. … more →
For My Next Trick
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wrote 4 months ago: I will read a book. No, really, I will. But with purpose! As a brief aside, it is moments like th … more →
Reading Between The Lines*: The City & The City
wrote 7 months ago: Breach. Take a word already sore with unpleasantly legalistic connotations and make it a noun. Capit … more →
Review: The City & The City
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wrote 10 months ago: The City & The City By China Mieville (Del Rey, Paperback, 9780345497529, April 2010, 352pp.) Th … more →
Update to the Reading List: China Miéville and Kim Stanley Robinson
wrote 10 months ago: My reading list is a perpetual work in progress because there are so many books I’ve read in t … more →
"Covehithe" by China Mieville
wrote 11 months ago: “Covehithe” by China Mieville 06.16.12 Story 166/366 I am an unabashed China Mieville fan. I read Kr … more →
I've Stepped Into The City
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wrote 11 months ago: See this book? It has intimidated me for a long time. Well, more specifically, this author scares th … more →
May 2012 - Monthly Wrap Up
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wrote 11 months ago: Oh, May, May, May. Where did you go? I don’t know what’s happening with my reading latel … more →
The City & The City, Closing Thoughts
wrote 1 year ago: On today’s menu: All sorts of things rattling around my brain. I came into this expecting something … more →
The City & The City, Chapter 29
wrote 1 year ago: On today’s menu: Finale. Borlu returns to Breach. Bowden’s weapon is lost somewhere in the bowels of … more →
