Daily Readings (2014)
In 2014 I decided to write once a day about what I was reading, and to publish it. It was lots of fun. Here I've organised them by book, so it's not just a day-by-day journey, but they're roughly in the order in which they were written.
Kim, by Rudyard Kipling
- Kims red bull (2014-04-17)
- Kim, constrained (2014-04-18)
- Kims disguise is uncovered (2014-04-19)
- Kim in India (2014-04-20)
- Kim in art (2014-04-21)
- How much did Kipling love Indian food? (2014-04-22)
- Racism in Kim - part 1 of ? (2014-04-23)
- What we learn from Kims own mouth (2014-04-24)
- Kim - a lucky guy (2014-04-25)
- Racism in Kim - part 2 of ? (2014-04-26)
- Nomenclature for Indias first war of independence (2014-04-27)
- Kipling ignores dissent (2014-04-27)
- A hint of rebellion (2014-04-28)
- My ignorance of Kipling (2014-04-28)
- Racism in Kim - part 3 of ? (2014-04-28)
- A definite hint of rebellion (2014-04-29)
- Angry, stupid Sahib (2014-04-30)
- Kim - never was such a chela (2014-05-01)
- Kim - the 34th best novel in another stupid list (2014-05-12)
- Identity in Kim, identity in The Son (2014-05-16)
- Kim - summary (2014-08-08)
The Son, by Phillip Meyer
- New book - The Son by Phillip Meyer (2014-05-09)
- Undermining overstatement (2014-05-10)
- More disjunctions (2014-05-11)
- Lists in The Son (2014-05-13)
- Jeannies coming of age story (2014-05-14)
- Plausibility, and the limits of criticism (2014-05-15)
- Identity in Kim, identity in The Son (2014-05-16)
- Mysterious southern ways (2014-05-17)
- Too much violence in The Son (2014-05-18)
- Is Jeannie Fatalistic? (2014-05-19)
- Is Peter fatalistic? (2014-05-20)
- The Son - A story of the coming leviathan (2014-05-21)
- The Son - summary (2014-08-09)
After Theory, by Terry Eagleton
- New book - After Theory by Terry Eagleton (2014-05-22)
- The path to me understanding postmodernism (2014-05-23)
- Is pointlessness subversive? (2014-05-24)
- How important is culture? (2014-05-25)
- Anti-theorist sophistry, apparently (2014-05-26)
- His politics apparent (2014-05-31)
- Stoats are my buddies (2014-06-02)
- I love him, I love him not (2014-06-03)
- Oh shit I might be postmodern (2014-06-04)
- A socialist and an un-believer (2014-06-05)
- The personal ads at the back of the London Review of Books (2014-06-06)
- What would Dawkins do? (2014-06-07)
- Finished - After Theory by Terry Eagleton (2014-06-08)
- Arguing for cultural theory and sociology (2014-06-10)
- After Theory - summary (2014-08-10)
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
- Themes in Lolita - self-delusion (2014-06-11)
- Personal feelings and criticism (2014-06-12)
- Humbert the Child-Hound (2014-06-13)
- Poets never kill (2014-06-14)
- The patrimonies of poets (2014-06-15)
- Humbert Poet Dawg Humbert (2014-06-16)
- Chilling Humbert Humbert (2014-06-18)
- No redemption (2014-06-21)
- A foreign man (2014-06-22)
- Secret triumph (2014-06-24)
- How murder happens (2014-06-25)
- Liberal libations (2014-06-27)
- Does Humbert love Lolita? (2014-06-29)
- Wrong about this, wrong about that (possibly) (2014-06-30)
- Finished - Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov (2014-07-02)
- Lolita - summary (2014-08-13)
How To Be A Woman, by Caitlin Moran
The Joy of Clojure, by Fogus and Houser
- Clojure - special forms (2014-07-14)
- New book - The Joy of Clojure, by Fogus and Houser (2014-07-14)
- The joy of theory (and Clojure) (2014-07-15)
- Discovering the REPL (2014-07-16)
- How to draw an owl (2014-07-17)
- I drew the owl (2014-07-18)
- Particularly dead authors (2014-07-22)
- A sly introduction to documented functions (2014-07-23)
London Review of Books
A Man In Love, by Karl Ove Knausgaard
- New book - A Man in Love, by Karl Ove Knausgaard (2014-08-19)
- Coffee pots with wings (2014-08-20)
- Damn these values (2014-08-22)
- A fabricated response (2014-08-23)
- Clouds! Sand dunes! That interests me. (2014-08-24)
- A shrewd eye (2014-08-26)
- A clearly depressed Norwegian (2014-08-27)
- Karl and Linda (2014-08-31)
- The difficulty of sharing (2014-09-01)
- Happy times (2014-09-02)
- Actually quite good (2014-09-06)
- Making choices (2014-09-08)
Miscellaneous
- A quick review of A Death in the Family by Karl Ove Knausgård (2014-05-02)
- Seeds, pips, and murder (2014-05-03)
- Positivism and anti-positivism - too binary (2014-05-08)
- It doesnt mean what you think it means (2014-05-27)
- Break - on mountain biking (2014-05-29)
- On choosing a new book (2014-06-09)
- Break - on belonging (2014-06-23)
- Professionally dim-witted (2014-06-28)
- I fucking love books (2014-07-19)
- Whats the difference between determination and grit? (2014-07-20)
- Books - our dark materials (2014-07-21)
- A note about the gap (2014-08-09)
- Miscellaneous posts - summary (2014-08-10)
- Flesh on the critical bones (2014-08-11)
- Your moods are all bullshit (2014-08-28)
- Meta - re-reading old posts (2014-09-07)