Author: Sean

There’s something about this book that keeps it in my rereading cycle. I mentioned it on Reddit as a bingo square for something or other, and that pushed it up into my consciousness for a reread. My copy is a scan of the 1993 paperback, as many of the books I obtained Pre-Kindle were. I…

Books are interesting things, aren’t they? Meant to stand alone. Between the front and back covers, there’s just you, the words from the author, and your own sense of time. DO you dive through quickly? DO you flick back and revisit some words? Do you stop when the author moves on at the end of…

my best friend’s birthday came up last week and, as ever, I got him something to read. Books are my go-to gift for all my discerning friends. I have a long and complex relationship with Robert Ludlum’s The Bourne Identity and this friend had never read it. he is a huge fan of the audiobook…

I never thought I’d need a “system” to keep track of my books, but as I explain on the home page of this little website, I felt it had become necessary. First, the commercialisation of Goodreads where I have tracked my reading for over 15 years is worrying, and their attitudes toward accessibility and the…