Cams Campbell 

A life-long reader, creator and acoustic guitar nerd on a Scottish island. Other Substack @camscampbell

What we need is for Oxford World Classics to publish a hardcover edition of The Karamazov Brothers as they did for Anna Karenina. I’m not a big fan of the OWC paperbacks. The Penguin Clothbound Classic is nice, but McDuff’s translation is not as smooth as Avsey’s in the OWC edition. So I’m now reading the Avsey translation on Kindle, which is not ideal.

#firstworldproblems

In which I contemplate my favourite fantasy series and why it means so much to me.

Using Fantasy to Find the Space between Joy and Despair

"Privacy, in fact, was almost as desirable for physics as it was for sex."

The Dispossessed, Ursula K. Le Guin

I didn’t much care for Anna Karenina the first time around. This time is very different!

Anna Karenina: Don't Steal Rolls

Not much to go now in Crime and Punishment. I get the feeling that Raskolnikov’s days of freedom are numbered…

A Heart Deranged by Theories

I just love ‘umbrageous oaks’. Bleak House, Chapter 28.

Looking back at what I read in January 2025, the darkest of months.

January Books