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Clive Barker's Imajica has long been one of my favourite fantasy novels. The heft of the single-volume edition renders it both unwieldy and intimidating, which is probably why my most recent reading of it was only the fourth time I've enjoyed it from cover-to-cover. But enjoyed it I did, and I'm s https://danq.me/2026/01/13/imajica-by-clive-barker/
Tue, Nov. 25th, 2025, 01:16 pm
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This weekend, I received my copy of DOCTYPE, and man: it feels like a step back to yesteryear to type in a computer program from a magazine: I can't have done that in at least thirty years. So yeah, DOCTYPE is a dead-tree (only) medium magazine containing the source code to 10 Web pages https://danq.me/2025/11/25/doctype/
As soon as I finished reading its prequel, I started reading Becky Chambers' A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (and then, for various work/life reasons, only got around to publishing my micro-review just now). The book carries on directly from where A Psalm for the Wild-Built left off, to such a degree https://danq.me/2025/03/06/a-prayer-for-the-crown-shy-by-becky-chambers/
I'd already read every prior book published by the excellent Becky Chambers, but this (and its sequel) had been sitting on my to-read list for some time, and so while I've been ill and off work these last few days, I felt it would be a perfect opportunity to pick it up. I've spent most of this week https://danq.me/2025/02/27/a-psalm-for-the-wild-built-by-becky-chambers/
Ruth bought me a copy of The Adventure Challenge: Couples Edition, which is... well, it's basically a book of 50 curious and unusual ideas for date activities. This week, for the first time, we gave it a go. As a result, we spent this date night... baking a pie! The book is written by https://danq.me/2025/02/20/blind-piemaker/
Another book I received at Christmas Eve's book exchange was We'll Prescribe You A Cat by Syou Ishida, translated from the original Japanese by Emmie Madison Shimoda. It's apparently won all kinds of acclaim and awards and what-have-you, so I was hoping for something pretty spectacular. It's... https://danq.me/2025/01/17/well-prescribe-you-a-cat-by-syou-ishida/
On the flight over to Trinidad I finished reading James Acaster's Classic Scrapes by James Acaster, which I received as part of our family's traditional Christmas Eve book exchange. I'm a big fan of his stand-up work (and I maintain that his 2018 serialised show Repertoire is among of the most https://danq.me/2025/01/12/james-acasters-classic-scrapes/
I just finished reading Kate Manne's Entitled. I can't remember where I first heard about it or why I opted to buy a copy, but it had been sitting in my to-read pile for a while and so I picked it up last month to read over the festive period. The book takes a pop-sci dive into research around https://danq.me/2025/01/07/entitled-by-kate-manne/
This post is part of my attempt at Bloganuary 2024. Today's prompt is: What books do you want to read? Well, I probably ought to start with my backlog! Between our traditional Family Christmas Book Exchange and my birthday, it's pretty common for me to have a lot of books on the "next to read" https://danq.me/2024/01/27/bloganuary-2024-27/
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