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This is where you'll find the daily writing of an ageing hipster who describes himself as an optimistic realist. That would be really pretentious if it wasn't painfully accurate.

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James Hewlett

Mar 26
3 min

Stay Home Media Round Up - Books

What should you be reading? This stuff!

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James Hewlett

Jan 18
3 min

Recursion

New book, who 'dis?

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James Hewlett

Jan 9
2 min

Ego Is The Enemy

Books on books on books man

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James Hewlett

Oct 1, 2019
2 min

Rock Me Homo Deus

A brief review of a brief history of tomorrow.

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James Hewlett

Sep 3, 2019
2 min

Console Wars

Over the last couple of weeks my book to listen to in the van has been Console Wars by Blake Harris. Console Wars is an account of the fight for market domin...

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James Hewlett

Jul 24, 2019
2 min

Stranger Than Fiction

I started a new book today; I’ve mentioned it in passing before as one I’d been sitting on; Black Dahlia Avenger. I heard about this book from a really unlik...

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James Hewlett

May 31, 2019
1 min

Book Club Busta

Last night was meant to be the first Book club group chat. We all read Consider Phlebas and arranged to talk about it at 18:30gmt The only problem is I has a...

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James Hewlett

May 29, 2019
2 min

Everything Is Fucked

Everything is fucked... actually it’s not. It’s far from it, that’s just the title of the book I’m reading at the moment. The full title is Everything Is Fuc...

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James Hewlett

Apr 12, 2019
2 min

The First Rule Of Book Club

So my little book club idea is coming to fruition! I’ve got a small group of people together, we’ve chosen the first book and I know at least a couple of us ...

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James Hewlett

Apr 10, 2019
2 min

Emotional Reaction From Reading

When was the last time you had an emotional reaction to a book? I’m not talking about laughing at something funny or feeling satisfied when the character you...

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James Hewlett

Mar 26, 2019
2 min

Tiamat's Wrath

The latest book in James S.A. Corey’s ‘The Expanse’ just came out today and I’ve been super excited to read it! The story picks up not too long after the las...

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James Hewlett

Mar 11, 2019
2 min

Lock In

When I finished reading/listening to New York 2140 I thought, great perfect timing, the next book in The Expanse is out at the end of the month and I’m very ...

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James Hewlett

Mar 2, 2019
3 min

New York 2140

I haven’t written about any books in a little while… let’s remedy that. I recently finished New York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson, they say don’t judge a boo...

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James Hewlett

Jan 17, 2019
2 min

Revisiting Books

This evening I'm going to be editing until I'm happy with the basic structure of the video, but I wanted to talk about a book that I have almost certainly bo...

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James Hewlett

Oct 24, 2018
1 min

Boat Books

I’m on a boat again today, it’s become a regular thing. I like it, I seem to get a good lot of writing done but today I can’t think of anything to write or m...

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James Hewlett

Sep 25, 2018
3 min

Book Club

When I got home I watched a video on Rooster Teeth's news channel, The Know. They've started doing a series called 'Club Club' which takes the basic premise ...

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3 Years, 6 Months & 5 Days in the Life of...

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The Blog

Stay Home Media Round Up - Books

Recursion

What To Read Next?

Ego Is The Enemy

Rock Me Homo Deus

Console Wars

Stranger Than Fiction

Book Club Busta

Everything Is Fucked

The First Rule Of Book Club

Emotional Reaction From Reading

Tiamat's Wrath

Lock In

New York 2140

Revisiting Books

Boat Books

Book Club