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Pam B's 2017 TBR and Challenge
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May 01, 2017 09:12AM
Finished a police procedural Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946614275.
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Read Mixed Magics, a collection by Diana Wynne Jones. Reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1993431949.
Finished the very long alternative history novel 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1993500431. Had to give it 2 stars in view of the issues especially about the basic premise.
For light relief after that, read a novella by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, part of a series - The Missing Man: A Morton Farrier Novella and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2013458491Not as good as the previous book in this series which I really enjoyed - this had a big believability problem, rather like the Mary Gentle tome, but as I enjoyed it as a read till near the end I gave it 3 stars.
Read Brothers of Earth by C J Cherryh and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2013663949 and Merlin's Mirror by Andre Norton, reviewed likewise - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2016867252.
Read Dark Undertakings by Rebecca Tope, and wrote a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2028502124.
Read Death of a Friend by Rebecca Tope and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946596005.
Read Jayge Carr's first science fiction novel, Leviathan's Deep, and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2037051453.
Finished Jane Yolen's Merlin's Booke and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040150360.
Just read a short prequel which is available free via a link on the Goodreads page to the Patrick Ness trilogy - The New World - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040237297.
Just finished volume 1 in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505728.
Read The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505806 but as it is so grim, have decided to read something lighter before tackling volume 3.
Read book 5 in the Witch World series by Andre Norton, Sorceress of the Witch World and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716692837. A lighter read which I enjoyed.
Finished the first in Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, Over Sea, Under Stone and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1366155267.
Returned to the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness briefly, reading the short story The Wide, Wide Sea, which fits after book 2, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2041750455.
A re-read of Louise Cooper's Lord Of No Time and review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1422905458.
Re-read of book 1 of Louise Cooper's Time Master series, The Initiate which I reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064525583
A re-read of book 2 of the Time Master trilogy, The Outcast, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2067720202
A re-read of book 3 to complete the trilogy - The Master - by Louise Cooper and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064528040.
Read Midnight Sun by Ramsey Campbell, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2077985229.
Catchup for two books just read:The Bridge by Iain Banks, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2078259886
The Turning Wheel, And Other Stories by Philip K Dick, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2081242865
Read book 3 of Patrick Ness' Chaos Walking trilogy, Monsters of Men, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505943.
Read book 1 in a Michael Moorcock trilogy, Count Brass and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083283951.
Read the short story which wraps up the Chaos Walking trilogy by Patrick Ness - Snowscape - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2041750620.
Read book 2 in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy, The Champion of Garathorm, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2083501935.
Read volume 3, The Quest for Tanelorn in the Chronicles of Castle Brass trilogy by Michael Moorcock and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2084298667.
Finished The Hugo Winners 1963-1967 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465827.
Finished The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465116.
Read these two:Nightwings by Robert Silverberg - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2094886576.
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2098483122
Read a SF short story collection by Robert Sheckley, The People Trap - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2098516347.Also read his novel, Immortality, Inc. and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2103407084.
Read another short story collection by Robert Sheckley, which also includes his novel, Immortality Inc - Robert Sheckley omnibus which I'd already read, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2103413460.
Finished We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves by Karen Joy Fowler, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1837287820.
Finished Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers and added a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2106406012.
Read books 1 and 2 of Jayne Castle's (aka Jayne Ann Krentz) St Helen's trilogy - Amaryllis and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108837833.
Zinnia and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108841765.
Read book 3 in Jayne Castle's St Helen's trilogy, Orchid and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108841818.
Not too impressed with a Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel - Child of the Hunt - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2118262802.
Read a collection of 1930s mostly supernatural stories by Robert Bloch, The Opener Of The Way and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2119930883
Finally managed to write the review of Algernon Blackwood's The Magic Mirror: Lost Ghost and Mystery Stories - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2126948643.
Read Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2140404455.
For light relief, I read a couple of books by Jayne Anne Krentz under her Jayne Castle pseudonym:After Dark - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842406
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After Glow - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842525
Also read books 3 and 4 of the same series, Ghost Hunter:number 3, Ghost Hunter - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842606
number 4, Silver Master - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2108842657.
Read book 5 of the Ghost Hunter series by Jayne Castle:Dark Light, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2169897988.
Read number 6 in the Jayne Castle Ghost Hunter/Harmony series - Obsidian Prey - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2169952866.
a rare DNF for me - The Book of Kells by R A MacAvoy - https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/941468.The_Book_of_Kells.
Too bad Pam! Hopefully your next book will wash out that bad taste :)
Leslie wrote: "Too bad Pam! Hopefully your next book will wash out that bad taste :)"Thanks Leslie! Yeah, already is, I've gone back for a re-read of Dragonflight by Anne McCaffrey.
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