Almost forgot the main reason I set up this blog in the first place! So, look, here I go grabbing the last chance to squeeze-in a 2014 plug for my thuswise titled collection of reviews and essays. If you got an amazon voucher for Christmas and were looking to splurge the £3.42 that this ebook costs, then I urge you to do it.
The pretext for today's post is this end-of-year notice from journalist Ray Garraty of his five best non-fiction books of 2014, Sib Fric amongst them. Which is very pleasing. On the other hand Jared Leto, sorry! Shurin I mean Shurin, reminds the world that the book is not eligible to be shortlisted for the BSFA Non-Fiction Award, which is, on the whole, less pleasing. Still, swings and roundabouts.
One last note on this collection. When I set this blog up, it made some kind of sense (I don't know what kind) to name it after the book. Now that the blog has been running for a while, I'm conscious that its name is liable to confuse. You may think that the book, Sibilant Fricative, contains material available for free upon this like-titled blog. It doesn't. The bulk of the original material in the book Sibilant Fricative appeared on this completely other blog, which I have now folded up and closed down. So the only way to get at the material in the book Sibilant Fricative is to buy it. And that's enough repetitions of the phrase 'the book, Sibilant Fricative' for one blog.
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