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Man in Darkness

Diary of a Murderer: And Other Stories by Young-ha Kim

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A 70-year-old serial killer, who has stopped killing decades ago and is suffering from Alzheimer’s, fears for his daughter’s life because he is convinced that the man she is dating is also a serial killer. Acutely aware of the rapidly deteriorating state of his memory, he sets out to save her before it is too late. The other three stories included in the book are concerned with a man having an affair with a married woman who is being badly abused by her husband, a […]

A Place That Had No Memories, Nothing

The Decay Of The Angel (The Sea of Fertility Book 4) by Yukio Mishima

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In the late 1960s, Honda, now 76 years old, encounters a 16-year-old orphan, Toru, whom he believes to be the next reincarnation of Kiyoaki. He decides to adopt him and take him into his home as his heir, offering an education, wealth, and status, all the while wondering and waiting whether Toru will die at twenty years of age like his predecessors did. I did not know what to expect after the surprising turn the story took in the third book, and it would have […]

Something to Write About

Teacher Man by Frank McCourt

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For 30 years, Frank McCourt taught English and later Creative Writing in various high schools in New York City. He shares anecdotes about his experiences in some very different schools, and stories about his own life during those years, and how all that finally led to him writing his first book, Angela’s Ashes, which won a Pulitzer Prize, at the age of 66. At first glance, this should be a good book. It’s funny and heartwarming, but occasionally tragic and thought-provoking. There are a bunch […]

“Such a Device Could Not Exist.”

Decoding the Heavens: Solving the Mystery of the World's First Computer by Jo Marchant

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In 1900, just off the coast of the Greek island of Antikythera and at a depth of about 45 metres, a group of sponge divers discovered the wreck of a Roman cargo ship. Among the bronze and marble statues, pottery, and jewellery that were retrieved in the next months, there was also an artefact that would puzzle scientists for the next hundred years: the Antikythera mechanism. At first, it was dismissed as just a lump of wood and metal, but when a gear was discovered […]

An Impenetrable Cloud Was Lifted

Fallout: The Hiroshima Cover-up and the Reporter Who Revealed It to the World by Lesley M. M. Blume

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In August 1946, The New Yorker dedicated an entire issue to John Hersey’s essay Hiroshima, which told the stories of six people who survived the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Blume provides the background to Hersey’s work: how the government tried to cover up or at least downplay the extent of the destruction and suffering unleashed on a largely civilian population, how Hersey managed to get the story anyway, and how it finally came to be published. Despite covering a heavy subject, this is a […]



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