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Book Reviews & Reading
Every book Helen has read and reviewed on this blog over more than a decade, from learning and development theory to fiction and memoir. 97 posts in this collection.
2025
2024
- Book Review of Disgrace by J.M.Coetzee
- Book Review of East of Eden by John Steinbeck
- Book Review of Ghost Wall by Sarah Moss
- Book Review of She and Her Cat by Makoto Shinkai
- Book Review: Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead
- Book Review: Leonard & Hungry Paul
- Book Review: My Husband by Maud Ventura
- Book Review: Steppenwolf By Herman Hesse
- Book Review: The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford
- Book Review: The Porcupine by Julian Barnes
- Getting Rid of My Books
- My Book Club Books for 2024
- New Book Haul
- New Book Review of Wifedom by Anna Funder
- New Book Review on Stoner by John Williams
- New Book Review: Ask the Dust by John Fante
- New Book Review: Body Friend by Katherine Brabon
- New Book Review: Home by Toni Morrison
- New Book Review: The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
- New Second Hand Book Haul
- Reading Graphic Novels
- Selling My Books
- Spaceman from Bohemia Book Review
- The Pachinko Parlour Book Review
- Vladivostock Circus Book Review
- What’s in My Book Haul?
- Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
2023
- 2 + 2 = 5
- A Run in the Park
- Another Second Hand Book Haul
- Book Review & Life Lessons from Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Book Review of Anti-Fragile by Nassim Nicholas Taleb
- Book Review of Creative Differences & Other Stories by Graeme Simsion
- Book Review of The Double by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
- Book Review of The Dying Animal by Philip Roth
- Book Review of Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
- Book Review: A Companion Piece by Ali Smith
- Book Review: Bila Yarrudhanggalangdhuray by Anita Heiss
- Book Review: French Braid by Anne Tyler
- Book Review: Look At Me by Anita Brookner
- Book Review: Nailing It by Rich Hall & Some Ideas about My YouTube Channel
- Book Review: The Alarming Palsy of James Orr
- Book Review: They by Kay Dick
- Book Review: WE by Yevgeny Zamyatin
- Book Review: We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
- Catch-22 for Organisations
- Decluttering My Book Shelves
- Grand Sale! Selling My Books on eBay
- How To Read Fiction: A Video Book Review
- I’m Eligible for the YouTube Partner Program
- Klara and the Sun Book Review
- More New (& Old Books) Come My Way
- My Dostoyevsky Collection
- My Second Hand Book Haul
- New Book Review: Lessons in Chemistry
- New Second Hand Book Haul
- New Video Book Review: Man-Made by Tracey Spicer
- New Video Book Review: Seeing Other People By Diana Reid
- Night: A Book Review
- Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
- Review of House of the Dead by Dostoyevsky
- Russian Literature
- The Day I Get Rid of My Books
- The Gambler by Dostoyevsky
- The House of the Dead
- The Lovers Book Review
- The Next Big Thing by Anita Brookner
- The Only Story By Julian Barnes (A Book Review)
- Video Book Review of A Start in Life by Anita Brookner
2022
- 2022 Goodreads Reading Challenge
- Book Review on The Bookseller’s Tale
- Lack of Focus
- Longer Reading Bouts
- Lost In Translation
- Mute
- New Book Haul & Some Philosophical Reflections
- New Book Review: The Latecomer
- Our Attention Has Been Stolen
- Second Hand Books
- Snippets of Salinger
- The Natural History of Love
- You Are Not A Gadget
2021
- Notes on What Is to Be Done by Barry Jones
- On Self-Critiquing
- Reading Challenge for 2020
- Welcome to My Bookshelf Tour
- When Do You Give Up Reading a Book?
2020
2019
2012
- Book Review: Preparing Instructional Objectives: A Critical Tool in the Development of Effective Instruction by Robert Mager
- Book Review: The New Social Learning by Marcia Conner and Tony Bingham
- Book Review: Link Training to Your Bottom Line was written by Dean Spitzer and Malcolm Conway
- Book Review: Social Media for Trainers: Techniques for Enhancing and Extending Learning by Jane Bozarth
- Book Review: The Online Learning Idea Book by Patti Shank