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Pam B's 2019 TBR Self Challenge
And the first one is .... Robert McCammon's Gone South - not great sadly - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2653061378."
Big catchup - have read and reviewed the following:Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles by Tim Heath - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679671250
The Black Friar by S G Maclean - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2680546173
Mystery Walk by R A McCammon - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2653212301
plus two books by Diana Wynne Jones:
Minor Arcana - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679685374 and
Hexwood - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679724116"
Read The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683554462.
Just stopping by to say hi and good reading in 2019!
Leslie wrote: "Just stopping by to say hi and good reading in 2019!"Thanks very much Leslie!
Read Jane Yolen's short story collection, Tales of Wonder and reviewed it -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683850898.
And also read Barbara Hambly's Those Who Hunt the Night and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2442804694.
Read book 3 of Barbara Hambly's James Asher series - Blood Maidens and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2442822767. Not as keen on this one.
Read vol 5 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series The Kindred of Darkness and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2699419110.
I'm reading all the time for work and pleasure. The material I read for work has to be read, and there's usually more than I can get to reasonably. My pleasure reading is a different story (Ha, Ha). I like books to fall in my lap, to appear, to look interesting when I go to the library, to pick up a suggested read, to read what's being read on Goodreads, BUT I don't plan my pleasure reading. It takes the pleasure out of it.
Read book 6 of Barbara Hambly's vampire series, Darkness on his Bones and reviewed it, explaining why I won't be bothering with any more of these - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2699418073.
Had a break from fantasy and SF to read Jeanette Winterson's Oranges Are Not The Only Fruit and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707642291.
Also read a biography but didn't find it as interesting as I'd hoped - Bryan Magee's Growing Up in a War - and reviewed it -https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2707641176.
A catchup of recent reads -Patricia Briggs' Raven's Strike - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2715528753
Clifford D Simak's City - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2726428122
Clark Ashton Smith's short story collection - The Abominations of Yondo - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2723480061
Another catchup:Colin Dexter's The Daughters of Cain, fairly late in the Inspector Morse series - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2733267886.
Clark Ashton's Smith's collection of short fiction, Genius Loci and Other Tales - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2740851097.
Diana Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2740855047.
Forgot to post that I read another Diana Wynne Jones which I finished on 27 Feb - The Islands of Chaldea - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2732386892.
Re-read the first of Lian Hearn's Otori novels, Across the Nightingale Floor and updated my previous review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404829504.
Finished Phil Rickman's first novel Crybbe (called Curfew in the States) and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2747889601.
Read book 1 in a cosy crime mystery series - The Herring Seller's Apprentice and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2760711382.
Finished P T Barnum's autobiography, The Life of P.T. Barnum and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2760789909.
Read Clark Ashton Smith's collection Lost Worlds: Volume 1: Zothique, Averoigne and Others and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2764449018and
book 1 of Midori Snyder's Oran trilogy New Moon - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2769771728.
Read book 2 in Lian Hearn's Otori trilogy - Grass for His Pillow - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404848121.
Read Sadar's Keep by Midori Snyder and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2776880761.
Read Agatha Christie's The ABC Murders and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2781789897.
Read Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1398214749.
Read a utopian/dystopian novel from the nineties with a difference - Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2783199523.
Read Jim Butcher's Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2794063801.
Forgot to post this one - Read The Cat in Magic, Mythology, and Religion by M Oldfield Howey and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2787372230.
Read Jim Butcher's Side Jobs: Stories from the Dresden Files and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2794063801.
Read Agatha Christie's The Body in the Library and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2797908035.
Read The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2804228573.
Read book 6 in Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Avatar, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2784951271.
Read a collection of short stories by Ramsey Campbell, Cold Print, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2809430168.
Read the final volume in the Midori Snyder trilogy - Beldan's Fire - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2809469878.Also re-read the first volume in the Isaac Asimov Foundation trilogy - Foundation - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2810631818.
Re-read book 2 of Asimov's Foundation trilogy, Foundation and Empire and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2810634045.
Read Raising Fire by James Bennett and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2814190900.
Read Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2816412565.
Read Nora Robert's The Obsession and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818639873.
Read The Time of the Ghostby Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818695927.
Read The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839047767and
Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2819905541.
Just finished The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2840839587.
A catch-up on my last 2 reads:Phil Rickman's The Wine of Angels - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839108055
and
The Terminal Velocity of Cats by Carol Westron - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849651732.
Read The Wind Eye by Robert Westall and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2851973882.
Read The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852179688.
Read Rebecca Tope's Peril in the Cotswolds and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852307721.
Read Ian Rankin's Set in Darkness and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2855932448.
Read The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2859224316.
Read Rebecca Tope's A Death to Record and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946597025.
Read A Sudden Wild Magic by Dianna Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867985171.
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I managed 100 books comfortably this year, but given work on editing my own book definitely will not manage 150 so I will stick to 100 again.