December 2019 - Andrew Blackman

Travel

2019: My Year of Full-Time Travel

As regular readers may know, I’ve been travelling full-time with my wife Genie since the beginning of 2015. We don’t have a home anywhere,…

Reading

Best Books I Read in 2019

How was your reading year? I read 58 books overall, which was not as many as I’d hoped, but still about one…

Syrian Notebooks by Jonathan Littell

Reading

Inside the Syrian Conflict With Jonathan Littell

Homs is one of those places that, like Aleppo and Kandahar and Mosul, has become a byword for suffering. For years it…

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Paul Jenner on The Sense of an Ending, explained: “It is “blood money” because Sarah recognizes that her seduction of Adrian was a significant factor leading to his suicide.…” Nov 19, 22:02
Marcie McCauley on Review: The Other Side by Alfred Kubin: “I’ve not read either this or anything else he’s written, but I thought the way you described it iniitially was…” Nov 15, 19:40
Andrew Blackman on Review: The Other Side by Alfred Kubin: “Yes, good idea! I also loved Klara and the Sun. If you enjoyed that one, I think you’d also like…” Nov 15, 14:22
Bean Klusendorf on Review: The Other Side by Alfred Kubin: “I’ll seek out Unconsoled instead. I loved Klara and the Sun, the only other Ishiguro book I’ve read.” Nov 13, 02:32
Andrew Blackman on Review: The Other Side by Alfred Kubin: “Those changes over the decades are very interesting, aren’t they? I had a similar experience recently with Wuthering Heights. When…” Nov 12, 15:53