by philwilliams | Feb 1, 2024 | Book Reviews
You may be aware that I read a lot of books. So many that I often forget to talk about them until I’m lumbered with making a big list at the end of the year. This is a shame because I’d like to talk more about and share the things I’ve enjoyed. This...
by philwilliams | Jan 5, 2023 | Book Reviews
This year I read a hearty 148 books, which is a drop down from 2021, but it was my intention to read a bit less to avoid drowning in it all. While I have a mountainous pile of books to get through, often I find I can’t properly remember them without prompts, only a...
by philwilliams | Dec 16, 2021 | Book Reviews
I’ve read an utterly absurd 180+ books this year, in huge part thanks to audiobooks. which make every idle moment an opportunity to drink book juice through your earholes. This is something of a double-edged sword, because reading tons also means it’s hard to narrow...
by philwilliams | Feb 2, 2021 | Book Reviews
I read an absurd number of books in 2020, with audiobooks, novellas, and graphic novels helping boost the numbers. Quite a few long epics, too, though, which I don’t go near too often, so it wasn’t all quick fixes. Anyway, I got through so many, it’s...
by philwilliams | Oct 20, 2020 | Book Reviews
Every one of Shirley Jackson’s books, for me, is a work of art. She’s best known for The Haunting of Hill House, and her short story The Lottery, and to some extent for We Have Always Lived in the Castle, all works I naturally started with myself, but her entire...