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{"hangover-square": {"title": "Hangover Square", "date": "2021-05-25T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "I was gifted this book by my mother, so I feel terrible for what I am about to say about it. It was gifted with the best of intentions: someone or other famous reported that it mad", "slug": "hangover-square"}, "wow-no-thank-you": {"title": "wow, no thank you", "date": "2020-09-01T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "Samantha Irby came onto my radar in 2019 after a reading slump from that time I was burned out by my job in a VC startup. _We are never meeting in real life_, her previous set of e", "slug": "wow-no-thank-you"}, "project-hail-mary": {"title": "Project Hail Mary", "date": "2021-06-03T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "When you read a Dan Brown book you leave it ready to put on your tin foil har. Andy Weir books make you feel ready to don a lab coat. He writes books that are clearly well research", "slug": "project-hail-mary"}, "hamnet": {"title": "Hamnet", "date": "2020-10-18T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "_Hamnet_ follows Agnes, the wife of William Shakespeare, and her family - her brothers, children, in-laws - as well as several of the greater village populous. The book makes very ", "slug": "hamnet"}, "kings-of-the-wyld": {"title": "Kings of the Wyld", "date": "2020-12-13T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "_Kings of the Wyld_ is a fantasy book which feels like three or four middle (or-upper middle) aged dudes getting drunk, playing Dungeons & Dragons, while classic Rock and Roll play", "slug": "kings-of-the-wyld"}, "on-connection": {"title": "On Connection", "date": "2020-11-14T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "Kae Tempest is a London-based artist who works with words. I first discovered their work in 2016, with the release of _Let Them Eat Chaos_ - a conceptual spoken word album which im", "slug": "on-connection"}, "queenie": {"title": "Queenie", "date": "2020-09-26T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "_Queenie_ is an excellent debut by Carty-William. The novel's titular narrator pins you to the page - she has a strong and unique voice, yet also unreliable and unlikable at times.", "slug": "queenie"}, "the-phoenix-project": {"title": "The Phoenix Project", "date": "2020-12-02T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "*The Phoenix Project* (TPP) is a a fiction book for nerds (said the nerd, on his blog). It's a parable for people who design, build, or deploy software. I want this article to jus", "slug": "the-phoenix-project"}, "an-absolutely-remarkable-thing": {"title": "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing", "date": "2020-11-08T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "An Absolutely Remarkable Thing (AART; because I'm not paid by the word here) is a wonderful Sci-Fi(-ish) adventure by Hank Green, one of the content creators in the first wave of t", "slug": "an-absolutely-remarkable-thing"}, "utopia-avenue": {"title": "Utopia Avenue", "date": "2021-02-09T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "_Utopia Avenue_ is David Mitchell's latest piece of fiction in the meta-novel he is writing. Which is to say this book is set in the same mild-fantasy universe as several of his ot", "slug": "utopia-avenue"}, "after": {"title": "After", "date": "2021-05-05T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "**Declaration of interest** I am a spiritual person. I didn\u2019t come into this book desperately seeking answers, or in need of comfort or certainty. You\u2019re never going to get that fr", "slug": "after"}, "magician": {"title": "Magician", "date": "2021-03-15T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "The first in Feist's *Riftwar Saga*, Magician has the air of a pulp fantasy novel. First published, abridged, in 1982 and unabridged a decade later, this book oozes nerds in the '", "slug": "magician"}, "the-silence-of-the-girls": {"title": "The Silence of the Girls", "date": "2021-01-24T00:00:00", "book_review": true, "preview": "Pat Barker's take on the classic story of the Battle of Troy is told from the perspective of Briseis, the noble taken s
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