July 2020 - Andrew Blackman

Reading

Children of the Cave: A Fascinating Finnish Novel of Ideas

In Children of the Cave, Finnish writer Virve Sammalkorpi imagines an encounter between a group of explorers and some strange creatures living in a…

Thinking

No, I Don’t Have the Bandwidth Right Now

Something is very wrong with the English language. People have started asking me if I have the “bandwidth” to work on new…

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Emma @ Words And Peace on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “Nice! In this one, I also highlighted the multiple references to references: https://wordsandpeace.com/2021/12/27/ficciones-by-jorge-luis-borges-the-form-of-the-sword/” Jun 21, 19:23
Silvia Cachia on Borges Marathon, Part 20: The Theme of the Traitor and the Hero: “Your Borges marathon posts inspired me to buy all his short stories. I am out of town, but at one…” Jun 21, 10:07
Andrew Blackman on All the Books on One Shelf: “Yes, I’m definitely better at speaking than reading. Still not great, mostly because we’ve spent so long travelling outside Serbia.…” Jun 19, 15:23
Andrew Blackman on All the Books on One Shelf: “Oh yes, that would be annoying to have different languages mixed up! I’m definitely not at the stage where I…” Jun 19, 15:20