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K.J.’s 2022 Year in Books
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Yes! Audible have picked them up and will be doing all 5 stories probably publishing early next year.
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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25 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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19 editions
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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8 editions
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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17 editions
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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8 editions
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A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1)
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2015
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10 editions
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting
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2021
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8 editions
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A Seditious Affair (Society of Gentlemen, #2)
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2015
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7 editions
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A Gentleman's Position (Society of Gentlemen, #3)
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2016
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8 editions
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The Rise of the Machines: AI ‘story engines’
If you’re book-Twitter-adjacent you will doubtless have heard there’s an AI book generator out there created by a company called Sudowrite. (As in “Pseudowrite”, which is at least honest. I’m also thinking Sudocrem, which is stuff you put on a baby’s bottom when it’s got sore from sitting in its own excrement. Anyway.)
This purports to generate you a book. According to the promo video, you do a “br
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I'm fairly sure I didn't entirely get what the author was doing here, which would be down to my lack of immersion in the culture and literature: it's a hugely allusive book. Presented as a companion piece to the Thousand and One Nights, once the desp ...more |
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Holy wow. This was remarkable. It's about Arlo, a DeafBlind man, and his tactile interpreter, Cyril. Cyril's chapters are in first person, and talk a lot about both the ethics and the science/art of interpreting, and it's absolutely fascinating. The ...more |
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A Mrs Bradley mystery, which is to say combines a classic English situation--here a village with vicar and fete--with some fairly baroque behaviour, Freudian psychology, and murdering. This one is mostly entertaining until the depiction of the black ...more |
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| This is the hyped book of the summer, plus it's a 'thriller about horrible people' which I was binging, so I grabbed it, but it did not work for me. Switches between viewpoints of Roach, a genuinely horrible creation (sticky stalky true crime obsessi ...more | |
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| Sweet low-key story of a tired wizard and a hopeful/helpful prince. A prequel to Magician and very much in the same gentle vein. Soothing. | |
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| Sri Lankan take on the 'rich people are the worst' genre, and yes rich people are absolutely the worst, especially online ones. A thriller/mystery that rolls around in its characters' awfulness. This is very nearly too offputting at first, as the mai ...more | |
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“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
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“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
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