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Book’s Read: Terrestrial History by Joe Mungo Reed
by Mondyboy | Mar 14, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
Reviewing this novel for Locus, I make a big fuss about how every book I read features an analogue...
Read MoreBooks Read: Sleeper Beach by Nick Harkaway
by Mondyboy | Mar 11, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
Everything I wanted to say about this novel is in my review for Locus, which will come out in the...
Read MoreTV Shows Watched: Evil (Seasons 1 to 4), created by Michelle and Robert King
by Mondyboy | Mar 7, 2025 | TV Reviews | 0
I watched all four seasons of this ridiculous show with my daughter, Sophie. She loved it, and...
Read MoreBooks Read: The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
by Mondyboy | Mar 2, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
You’d be surprised by how much I haven’t read; I have gaping holes even in the genres I’m intimate...
Read MoreMovies Watched: Live Flesh, directed by Pedro Almodóvar
by Mondyboy | Feb 26, 2025 | Movie Reviews | 0
I watched Live Flesh because of Ben Peek and Catherine Lacey. Ben Peek is an Almodóvar fanboy who...
Read MoreMovies Watched: Conclave, directed by Edward Berger
by Mondyboy | Feb 23, 2025 | Movie Reviews | 0
Doesn’t it boil your blood when someone’s hatred of a new film causes them to spoil the ending? It...
Read MoreBooks Read: 11/22/63 by Stephen King
by Mondyboy | Feb 6, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
I made three reading resolutions this year. The first was to read more core-genre novels (see my...
Read MoreTV Shows Watched: Shrinking (Season Two), created by Bill Lawrence, Jason Segel and Brett Goldstein
by Mondyboy | Feb 5, 2025 | TV Reviews | 0
Unless you consider Slow Horses a comedy (it is amusing), Shrinking is the stand-out comedy on...
Read MoreBooks Read: The Heart in Winter by Kevin Barry
by Mondyboy | Feb 4, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
As far as I’m concerned, Kevin Barry can write whatever the fuck he likes.* His last two...
Read MoreBooks Read: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
by Mondyboy | Feb 2, 2025 | Book Reviews | 0
Every person and their canine has opined about this collection—not just the critics but seemingly...
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