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Titus Groan, Mervyn Peake, Stuart Hall
I slate this book for the first 1000 words, and then become maybe a little insightful in the next 600
Kitty Liu
Aug 21, 2022


Telling Through Omission: Nabokov’s Lolita
This isn’t a love story. This isn’t Humbert’s story – not just his, anyway.
Kitty Liu
Apr 21, 2022


Never Let Me Go – again
I reread Kazuo Ishiguro's 'Never Let Me Go' – I didn't get it the last time, but this time I think I do.
Kitty Liu
Feb 12, 2022


I write about Chinese historical phonology
'Lost Syllables and Found Debates', published on the Cambridge Language Collective blog
Kitty Liu
Nov 15, 2021


Cecelia Watson's 'Semicolon'
'Mediocre Pauses', published on the Cambridge Language Collective blog
Kitty Liu
Nov 15, 2021


Gretchen McCulloch's 'Because Internet'
'A New Frontier for Linguistics', published on the Cambridge Language Collective blog
Kitty Liu
Nov 15, 2021


'Do animals have language?'
'From Manifesting Justice to Language Games', published in Issue 6 of U-Lingua, your favourite linguistics student magazine
Kitty Liu
Nov 15, 2021


Sarah Moss
TL;DR: She’s really cool go read Ghost Wall.
Kitty Liu
Sep 4, 2021


I watched Crazy Rich Asians
The Asian-ness is only aesthetics, for a deeply American and pretty conventional romantic comedy.
Kitty Liu
Aug 16, 2021


How do you shorten 'Cambridge'?
The more journalistic version of my article on 'Cam' or 'Cambs', published on the Cambridge Language Collective blog
Kitty Liu
Jul 1, 2021


I review some linguistics YouTube
'YouTube Recommendations from Your Neighbourhood Linguist', published on the Cambridge Language Collective blog
Kitty Liu
Jul 1, 2021


Ken Follett’s Pillars of the Earth
Just a book review.
Kitty Liu
Apr 28, 2021


Reading Gravity’s Rainbow
A bad dream, or: What does it mean to dislike a book?
Kitty Liu
Apr 16, 2021


‘Cam’ or ‘Cambs’: Speech communities in Cambridge, and strategies for apocope in British English
I wrote a baby linguistics paper because what else is one supposed to do when one has data?
Kitty Liu
Jan 3, 2021


I N F I N I T E · J E S T
'a novel about wide-reaching things told in a very niche way'
Kitty Liu
Dec 1, 2020


The 'About' page
As you may have gathered, I’m called Kitty and I write. You’ve found my ‘blog about books and thoughts’. To elaborate, then.
Kitty Liu
Nov 8, 2020


Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange
‘I like this book because it corroborates Wittgenstein.’
Kitty Liu
Jul 13, 2020


Italo Calvino's If on a winter's night a traveller
I read this novel about novels and reading. So what does reading mean?
Kitty Liu
Jul 5, 2020


Linguistics Nerd Critiques Duolingo
in which your humble host bashes language-learning app with her EPQ on language pedagogy, and then has another think about it
Kitty Liu
Jun 22, 2020


Umberto Eco's The Name of the Rose
a book review, in which your humble host gets hung up on the concept of time, contemplates the activity of reading, among other things
Kitty Liu
Jun 16, 2020
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