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Toby Martin: The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England (part 1)
Toby Martin 2015, The Cruciform Brooch and Anglo-Saxon England This is the definitive study of English cruciform brooches. Now and then a study comes along that is so comprehensive, and so well argued,...
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Best Reads Of 2015
Andy Weir’s The Martian. My single best read this year!Here are my best reads in English during 2015. My total was 55 books and 16 of them were e-books. Find me at Goodreads! The Summing Up. W....
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Machen’s Impostors
Arthur Machen (1863-1947) Arthur Machen’s 1895 book The Three Impostors, or The Transmutations, is a delightfully strange read. It consists of a short frame narrative interspersed with six standalone...
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Skeptical Sir Richard
Sir Richard Francis Burton (1821-90) Yesterday I finished reading the first volume of Sir Richard Burton’s 1855 Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah (in the public domain). Here...
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The Lovecraftian Horror of French
1972 back-cover blurb I bought a used copy of Maurice Lévy’s Lovecraft ou du fantastique (Paris 1972) at the Fantastika 2016 scifi con, and now I’m picking my way through it with the aid of a...
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Announcing My New Essay Collection
In December of last year I finished a collection of short humorous archaeological essays. It’s my sixth book, my first one in Swedish, my first one aimed at the lay reader. Since then I’ve been waiting...
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Best Reads Of 2016
The Detective: Jonathan L. Howard’s second book about Johannes Cabal, the necromancer. Here are my best reads in English during 2016. My total was 42 books and 13 of them were e-books. Find me at...
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LinCon & SweCon 2017
Ascension with its four days off is shaping up to be the geekiest time of the year. This time I had three big events to choose from: the LinCon gaming convention, the Kontur/SweCon scifi convention...
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WorldCon 75 in Helsinki
The 75th World Science Fiction Convention took place in Helsinki and seems to have had the second-highest attendance ever: more than 7000 people in the Messukeskus convention centre, 2000 of whom had...
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Good Recent Swedish Popular History
I don’t read much in Swedish. On a whim I decided to check what recent Swedish books I’ve read and liked outside work. Turns out they’re all popular history. Alla rekommenderas varmt för den som delar...
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