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Mark

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27 Books

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Year of Wonders
Hawksmoor
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Paradise Now
The Bewitched Bourgeois
Outline
Transit : Roman.

Mark's Most Popular Reviews

A lot of really clever and fun stuff throughout, very good last 150 pages. But it takes a while to get to that last 150 pages, and there is a LOT about post-graduate studies that tends towards repetition - your taste for reading about academia might dictate how satisfying you find Katabasis.

Interesting facsimile edition of a collection originally assembled by Weegee himself - not an art book as I had assumed. Includes a section of Weegee's technical and professional advice to aspiring photographers, which was really cool.

A series of sharp, short essays that detail the author's personal and political evolution on subjects from disability to climate change to work; a radical manifesto broken into facets, each essay is powerful, moving beautifully from the personal to the universal.

Beautiful and almost hallucinogenic, feels kind of like One Hundred Years of Solitude or The Leopard, following a convent of nuns for fifty years during the 14th century - a narrative of twists and turns, characters and comic misfortune.

A fast-moving and enjoyable second outing with these characters, a bit smoother than the first book.