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Barbara’s 2024 Year in Books
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The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone
The Bookshop Detectives: Dead Girl Gone, by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward, is a Kiwi-infused mystery set in Havelock North, a town in New Zealand’s Hawk’s Bay region. This story about two ex-Brit coppers turned bookstore owners is written by … wait for it … two ex-Brit coppers turned bookstore owners. More than a bit self-referential, in other words, but forgivably so in service to a good story.
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The Locksmith (Reforging, #1)
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2017
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Engine of Lies (Reforging Book 2)
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The Blacksmith (Reforging #3)
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2019
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The Wordsmith (Reforging #4)
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2021
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Philanthropy and Cultural Imperialism: The Foundations at Home and Abroad
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The Forge (Reforging #5)
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Alcohol Education
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Alcohol Education: A Handbook for Health and Welfare Professionals
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Barbara’s Recent Updates
"At long last, the time has come to review this book. I've been waiting since April or May, since whenever I read the review in the Guardian and thought that it sounded interesting. Interesting, indeed, it was, but not always in the best of ways.
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"I've got to say, with a title like "The Cybernetic Tea Shop," I expected this to be a fun, silly, quick read. Instead it was thoughtful and quiet, seeming to take up more space than the pages it occupied. This is set in a world where sentient, sapien"
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"This novella about an AI robot and a human programmer can be read as a sweet romance between two asexual individuals, as it was no doubt intended. But it is also so much more.
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| This starts off as hard horror-tinged SF with the captain of a spaceship circling a black hole murdering his crew, but it then morphs into a satire on utopianism before morphing again into discussions on metaphysics and religion, before approaching t ...more | |
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| This novel is made up of the diary entries of a 15-year-old girl at a boarding school in the UK in 1979-1980 as she struggles to make new friends, deal with the loss of her dead twin sister, escape the grip of an evil mother, and come to terms with h ...more | |
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| This novella is loosely based on the real mathematician's life as a teen in Occupied France during WWII. The fictional Mandelbrot has a sort of mystical affinity for maths, particularly fractals, that he uses to build a safe haven for his parents. In ...more | |
"The last time I read "serious" sci-fi I was twelve years old. I was a bit obsessed with robots, so I bought Asimov's I, Robot collection and dove in. Even at that age, I could sense that something was off. It wasn't the robots -- Asimov writes great "
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| Origin story of Captain Hook and Peter Pan. Dark, tragic, heart-breaking, and very good. | |
“The best remedy for a bruised heart is not, as so many people think, repose upon a manly bosom. Much more efficacious are honest work, physical activity, and the sudden acquisition of wealth.”
― Have His Carcase
― Have His Carcase
“We notice the silence of men. We depend upon the silence of women.”
― Every Heart a Doorway
― Every Heart a Doorway
“A feminist is any woman who tells the truth about her life.”
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“People who say change is impossible are usually pretty happy with things just as they are.”
― The City We Became
― The City We Became
“In the four years of its existence the Army of the Potomac had to atone for the errors of its generals on many a bitter field. This happened so many times—it was so normal, so much the regular order of things for this unlucky army—that it is hardly possible to take the blunders which marred its various battles and rank them in the order of magnitude of their calamitous stupidity.”
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
― Mr. Lincoln's Army
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Goodreads Librarians are volunteers who help ensure the accuracy of information about books and authors in the Goodreads' catalog. The Goodreads Libra ...more
New Scientist Book Club
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Welcome to the New Scientist Book Club, a place to find out about the very best new science and science fiction books out there, and to talk about the ...more
