The book is filled with sex, death, science, addiction, grief, motherhood and many varieties of love and distaste. The language is sometimes beautiful, sometimes brutal, always precise. On that level alone it would be compelling but what sets it apart is Sarah Hall’s muscular writing and her unflinching insights into people. “The Wolf Border” has a strong plot that deals with politics and class and the struggle between the wild and the civilized. It has stayed with me in the weeks since I read it and grown richer in my memory like a place visited and fondly remembered. The narrative doesn’t thrust, it shapes your perception of people and events with gentle persistence, like a stream eroding one bank and building up another. “Reservoir 13” has a distinct voice and an unusual structure that did, eventually, imprint the village on my imagination and made me reluctant to leave. The missing girl is not the centre of the book but rather something that distorts the flow of village life without adding to it, She is like a waterlogged piece of driftwood that only occasionally surfaces but is always there, disturbing the peace of the water. The people in the village are following the same tidal flows as the wildlife around them and, just as I learned about the courtship of badgers in the woods, I was shown that most human mating rituals are led by women and conducted through body language and eye contact more than words. I came to understand how the politeness of being indirect grants dignity and privacy while still offering the possibility of sharing the things you cannot bear alone. surface view of all the things that people in a small village know about each other: the gossip, the constant observation of each other’s acts and the things they don’t say or don’t ask. It shows how life is lived in a village over thirteen years, season by season, giving a. “Reservoir 13” by Jon McGregor as my favourite of the three books I read from the 2017 Mann Booker Prize Longlist although it didn’t make the Shortlist. Normally I’d just pick one best read here but this quarter’s offerings were so strong, I indulged myself with three remarkable books. It was such a good three months that it was more difficult than usual to select the best and most disappointing of the twenty-six books I’ve read but here they are. My staple genre diet was also very rewarding with the long-awaited twenty-first Kate Shugak novel “Less Than A Treason”, a strong Scarlett Bernard story in “Blood Gamble” , one of the best Angel Crawford books, “White Trash Zombie Unchained” and a short but entertaining new Peter Grant story in “The Furthest Station”. On impulse, I also added British spy fiction to the mix with surprisingly pleasing results. Stay tuned for the rest of our annual recap.I felt in need of a bit more stimulation this quarter so I spiced my normal diet of urban fantasy, crime and science fiction with some mainstream reading, partly driven by this year’s Mann Booker Prize Longlist. Sad news for the soccer fans from April, as the "two Ronaldos and Neymar" were fired. Tom even made a rare live appereance in Macau later in April. Read about the details of the alleged Durrrr-scam here. The reputation of Tom "Durrrr" Dwan's was seriously harmed after the failed "Durrrr challenge" but it may have just gotten worse after this happened. It's not uncommon to see poker players talk trash to each other but these beefs are rarely followed up by a heads-up battle.
If you ever wondered how the "King of Instagram" plays poker, you can take a look here, as Doug Polk analyzes the game of Dan Bilzerian's. Read about the success of a local guy here.
However, this year an amateur player was the last man standing in the Main Event. The Aussie Millions is one of the favourite poker festivals for all the top pros. Read about the battle here and you can read about the results here. In the beginning of the year, a sci-fi-like battle took place, as the best NLH heads-up players the humanity could show up, took against the Artificial Intelligence, Libratus. Here is a list of what happened this year.
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The year was full of shocking news and surprising moments. As poker fans at heart, we can't really complain about 2017.
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