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03:40 pm Hild, by Nicola Griffith

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06:57 pm Wildthyme Beyond!, by Paul Magrs

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06:09 pm Western Sahara: War, Nationalism and Conflict Irresolution, by Stephen Zunes and Jacob Mundy

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03:28 pm A Man for All Seasons (1966) - 2 comments

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01:11 pm What if we re-run the Boundary Commission for 650 MPs, 18 in Northern Ireland?

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06:13 pm August 2004 books - 2 comments

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06:17 pm BSFA Long List - Goodreads/LibraryThing stats

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06:43 pm Wednesday reading

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06:09 pm Two Being Human novels: Chasers, by Mark Michalowski and Bad Blood, by James Goss

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06:29 pm The Widows of Malabar Hill, by Sujata Massey - 1 comment

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03:31 pm September 2004 books - 1 comment

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03:42 pm Doctor Who: The Target Storybook, ed. Steve Cole

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06:55 pm Dragonworld, by Byron Preiss (did not finish)

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06:02 pm The Rule of the Land: Walking Ireland’s Border, by Garrett Carr

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06:35 pm Wednesday reading

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06:04 pm I Love the Bones of You: My Father And The Making Of Me, by Christopher Eccleston

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03:01 pm October 2004 books

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03:20 pm In the Heat of the Night: film (1967) and novel (1965)

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03:37 pm BSFA 2019 Best Art: my nominations

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06:36 pm Exhalation, by Ted Chiang

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06:52 pm Seraphina, by Rachel Hartman

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06:09 pm November 2004 books

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06:18 pm Auguria, by Peter Nuyten

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03:48 pm Demon in Leuven, by Guido Eekhaut

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03:05 pm Under Another Sky: Journeys in Roman Britain, by Charlotte Higgins

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06:43 pm As Time Goes By, by Joshua Hale Fialkov and Matthew Dow Smith

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06:12 pm December 2004 books and 2004 reading roundup

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06:06 pm “Home is the Hangman”, by Roger Zelazny

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pwilkinson
25 Oct 2021, 01:15
"Fire Watch", by Connie Willis
I am fairly sure I read Fire Time quite a number of years back (probably, like you,,sometime around 2002), though I've never felt like re-reading it, despite regarding two of its novel-length…
redfiona99
24 Oct 2021, 22:51
Gladiator (2000), and Those About to Die
You may also like Crouching Tiger better than this (it does have more women including Michelle Yeoh). Although the reason I like it are probably close to why I like Gladiator so possibly not.
Tim Roll-Pickering
24 Oct 2021, 16:29
August Books 4) Proportional Representation in Ireland, by James Creed Meredith
(Since you're revisiting these...)

"It is undeniably true that STV encourages parties to put up fewer candidates than a list system does."

I'm not sure that is the case. It is true in Ireland,…
Tim Roll-Pickering
24 Oct 2021, 16:24
August Books 4) Proportional Representation in Ireland, by James Creed Meredith
Irish ministers reportedly often surprise their foreign counterparts with how much constituency work they do. I remember one (then) Conservative MP arguing for proportional representation holding up…
fanf
23 Oct 2021, 13:33
"Fire Watch", by Connie Willis
I like Connie Willis’s short stories: it’s fun how the characters talk past each other and miscommunicate. But at novel length it gets very tiresome and I lose sympathy for the characters’ idiotic…

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