Monthly Archives: December 2025

Book Review: Trent Dalton’s Love Stories

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

Love Stories by Trent Dalton My rating: 3 of 5 stars I’m going to go right down the middle with a middling rating of this book, with the stars mostly for the intention. It is clear that Dalton is a … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Lorrie Moore’s The Collected Stories

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

The Collected Stories by Lorrie Moore My rating: 3 of 5 stars I think I was in university when I first discovered Lorrie Moore, reading Like Life (1990) and then liking it so much that I read Birds of America … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Eduardo Galeano’s The Book of Embraces

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

The Book of Embraces by Eduardo Galeano My rating: 4 of 5 stars When I was first exposed to the Memory of Fire trilogy, it was a revelation. Here, in anecdotes both poetic and mythic, Galeano turned the history of … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Andrew O’Hagan’s Be Near Me

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

Be Near Me by Andrew O’Hagan My rating: 3 of 5 stars Because I’d raved about O’Hagan’s Marilyn Monroe book (as narrated by her dog, Maf), a new literary friend loaned me one of his favourite books, ‘Be Near Me’. … Continue reading →

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Book Review: Alice Munro’s The Moons of Jupiter

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

The Moons of Jupiter by Alice Munro My rating: 5 of 5 stars I’m reading through Alice Munro’s books: all of them. Most of them I’d read before, but a number are completely new or I only read a story … Continue reading →

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Book Review. Alice Munro’s Friend of My Youth

Posted on 6 December 2025 by andyq

Friend of My Youth by Alice Munro My rating: 4 of 5 stars I return to this page, and see, a surprise to me, that I rated it three stars in 2011. I actually don’t remember reading it before. It … Continue reading →

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2025 in lists: Musicals, theatre, concerts, books and exhibitions

Posted on 5 December 2025 by andyq

A work in progress (at least during 2025) … Musicals and theatre Hamlet Camp, Carriageworks: A kooky idea with engaging pros telling the story. I loved the autobiographical poems that opened this, our friend Claudia provided a wonderful different energy to … Continue reading →

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