Last volume of the huge epic Farsser Trilogy (at 848 pages it's the longest book I've read so far this year, more than 100 pages longer than either Buddenbrooks or Dominion which are both in the low 700s, and so is Het Verdriet van België which I've just started). It is pretty much a satisfactory conclusion to the epic, though we do seem to take a long time getting to the retrieval of the lost king and climax of the story, and then the ending felt, well, not rushed, but at a pace I could have coped with the rest of the book being written at. It's been interesting to read these more or less at the same time as Patrick Rothfuss, who takes quite a similar situation, a slightly less attractive central character, but does perhaps more interesting things with it.
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500 days of plague
So, back when I started these ten-day updates in March last year, I had no idea I'd still be at it half a thousand days later. (I did skip the…
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The origins of St Patrick's Day
Just a brief note on the day. It's well known that St Patrick's Day parades were originally a diaspora phenomenon, and the first really big…
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T.K. Whitaker: Portrait of a Patriot, by Anne Chambers
Second paragraph of third chapter: The sense of belonging and responsibility experienced by the Department of Finance’s new recruit on his…
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