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Books I reviewed in 2024

Start the week #87

Experiments in style: Mansplaining

Start the week #86

Experiments in style: The Christmas Letter

10 must-read books

A dialogue

Letter to Rebecca #24-24

Experiments in style: A merry dance

A Sound of Thunder

Experiments in style extra

Dystopian visions: The Snowball Effect

Experiments in style: a play

Dystopian visions: Flowers for Algernon

Dystopian visions index

Poetry Writing and Me

Experiments in style: Bandit poem

Dystopian Visions: The Machine That Won The War

Letter to Rebecca #24-23

Experiments in style: Problem Page

Dystopian Visions: The Cold Equations

Start the week #85: Circularity

How I wrote the Mastermind version

Dystopian visions: Disappearing Act

Start the week #84

Experiments in style: Mastermind

Dystopian visions: My Object All Sublime

Letter to Rebecca #24-22

Experiments in style: hyperbole

Dystopian Visions: Computers Don't Argue

Revisited: The girl with long hair

Experiments in style: Antonymic translation

Letter to Rebecca #24-21

The tour guide

Experiment in Style: The Back of Beyond

Elevator speeches

The story behind the spy thriller story

Start the week #83

Experiments in style: a spy thriller version

4 articles I didn't use

Letter to Rebecca #24-20

Start the week #82

Experiments in style: The inspiration for the travel diary version

My Great Work of Fiction

Start the week #81

Experiments in style: 'A Bang on the head' in the style of a guide book

Library madness

Letter to Rebecca #24-19

Start the week #80

Critical analysis of the Borgesian story

Experiments in Style: A Borgesian Story

Three things my girlfriend gave me

Start the week #79

Experiments in style: Travel diary

Expandable space

6 word reviews

Letter to Rebecca #24-18

Start the week #78

Experiments in style Extra

Success at last!

Start the week #77

Experiments in Style: ROT13

One-sentence stories, a 6 word review, and a challenge

Letter to Rebecca #24-17

Start the week #76

Experiments in style: TV Reporter

Short-form writing #1

Start the week #75

Experiments in style: breathless

Letter to Rebecca #24-16

Start the week #74

Experiments in style: a book review

Experiments in style: to automate or not to automate

Start the week #73

Experiments in style: blasts from the past --*UPDATE*: Comments are now enabled for all!

Quick Look: Desirable Difficulties In Action

Letter to Rebecca 24-15

Start the week #72

Experiments in style: randomised

No Accounting For Taste

Remembering Paul Jennings: a blast from the past

Letter to Rebecca #24-14

Start the week #71

An interview with Fred Terryman

Review of First Love, by Turgenev

Start the week #70

Experiments in style: Shakespearean

A time travel story...

Letter to Rebecca #24-13

Start the Week #69

Experiments in Style: Break the rules

The noise abatement meeting

Letter to Rebecca #24-12

Start the week #68

Experiments in Style: Art Critic

A different perspective

But What If The Singularity Is Benign?

How to automatically date Word documents

How I prepared for one of my courses

Letter to Rebecca #24-11

Experiments in Style Extra: Anaphora and Holmes

The case of the disappearing noble

Start the week #67

Experiments in style: anaphora

8 useful bits of life advice

Spotting the Bulls*t

Letter to Rebecca #24-10

Experiments in Style Extra: A Mystery

I don't like ice-breakers

Start the week #66

Experiments in style: a mystery

Letter to Rebecca #24-09

Experiments in style Extra: the 'editorial remarks' version

Money, Money, Money

Start the week #65

Experiments in style: Editorial remarks

Letter to Rebecca #24-08

Start the week #64

No, I don't wear saffron robes!

Behind the time loop 'experiment in style'

Start the week #63

Letter to Rebecca #24-07

Start the week #62

Experiments in style: Time loop

I never have writers block but…

Start the week #61

Experiments in style: Inappropriate epithets

Escapism: the solution

Letter to Rebecca #24-06

Start the week #60

Escapism

Letter to Rebecca #24-05

Start the week #59

Review: The Oulipo and Modern Thought

Alternative measures of newsletter success

Start the week #58

Experiments in style: Reversed words

Letter to Rebecca #24-04

Start the week #57

Experiments in style: How the US TV version came about

Glimpses Behind The Curtain

Start the Week #56

Experiments in style: US TV Cop series

Stupid rules

The problems with going viral

Letter to Rebecca #24-03

Start the week #55

Looking at epistrophe

Review of Fantasy: Realms of Imagination

Start the week #54

Experiments in style: Epistrophe

I just unloaded a load of boxes full of books and I knew EXACTLY which box to open for each book I wanted

Letter to Rebecca 24-02

Start the week #53

Hamlet reimagined as the Dice Man (Updated)

11 characteristics of good writers

Experiments in style: More musical variations

Is this the most superfluous word in the English language?

2024-01 *UPDATED*: Now everyone can comment!

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