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What I read

Finished the Sontag essays in On Women, very very good.

Pre-ordered ages ago, turned up, Lucy Mangan's Bookish: How Reading Shapes Our Lives (2025), which was lovely, even when I boggle over some of her tastes.

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Kaliane Bradley, The Ministry of Time (2024) - hmmm. I did think it did rather better with the 'Polar explorer brought into the present' than the other one I read in terms of making the mindset and reaction to modern life plausible but had rather similar pacing issues.

Re-read Sam Mills, The Watermark (2024) - didn't grab me quite as much as when I read it last year.

On the go

Still dipping into Some Men in London.

Just started, Caroline Biggs, The Spinning House: How Cambridge University locked up women in its private prison (2024) - so far I am getting that there was resistance by the townspeople to the University policing of women but how far this was a flashpoint for wider town-gown issues rather than, you know, concern for the women, not exactly clear yet.

Up next

Melissa Scott's Point of Hearts allegedly drops tomorrow. Still no sign of Kobo edition of Tomb of Dragons.