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Read Nora Robert's The Obsession and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818639873.
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Read The Time of the Ghost by Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818695927.
Read The Wind Eye by Robert Westall and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2851973882.
50 books completed - 7 ahead of schedule. And I still have another review to do.
Read The Grave's a Fine and Private Place by Alan Bradley and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852179688.
Somehow I seem to have missed posting several reviews although I posted them in other groups. The Murder on the Links by Agatha Christie and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839047767
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Anne Boleyn: Adultery, Heresy, Desire by Amy Licence and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2819905541.
and
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2840839587.
and
Phil Rickman's The Wine of Angels - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2839108055
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The Terminal Velocity of Cats by Carol Westron - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2849651732.
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.
Didn't get time to post links to these reviews written over a week ago:Great Expectations by Charles Dickens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1389245412.
Brilliance of the Moon by Lian Hearn - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404851594.
Finished a massive historical novel by Sharon Penman, When Christ and His Saints Slept and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2887886157.When Christ and His Saints Slept
Read a quick and free short story, A Witch’s Guide to Escape: A Practical Compendium of Portal Fantasies by Alix E Harrow, available at https://www.apex-magazine.com/a-witch... recommended by a couple of other Goodreads members in another group.Reviewed it here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2893196723.
Read a history book about WWII - Fortress Malta: An Island Under Siege 1940-1943 by James Holland - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2891918698.And Scapa Flow by Malcolm Brown and Patricia Meehan, about the Royal Navy base, in both World Wars, told through the experiences of ordinary people - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2898088168.
Also read The Tough Guide to Fantasyland by Diana Wynne Jones - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2898113756.
Just caught up with a big pile of book reviews:Ian Rankin's Tooth and Nail - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2898128107.
Another Rankin Rebus novel - Dead Souls - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913019901
Third Rebus novel - A Question of Blood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913048350.
Neil Spring's The Lost Village - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913063374
And four from Jodi Taylor's time travel series - first book 1 - Just One Damned Thing After Another - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913098729
book 2 - A Symphony of Echoes - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913129437
book 3 - A Second Chance - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913163772
and finally book 7 - Lies, Damned Lies, and History - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913232735
Wow, assuming you are ahead?
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, assuming you are ahead?"Yes, 15 ahead it seems!
Read a couple of non fiction for a change - Dunkirk: The History Behind the Major Motion Picture by Joshua Levine - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2913467762
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People of the Lie: The Hope for Healing Human Evil by M. Scott Peck - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2917670343.
Read book 7 of the Indigo series by Louise Cooper - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2784951361.
Read Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2920392442 and The Fresco by Sheri Tepper - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1381976366
Read a couple of biographies. Loved the first, not so much the second:Jane Austen at Home by Lucy Worsley - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2923787278
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A Life In Secrets: The Story Of Vera Atkins And The Lost Agents Of Soe by Sarah Helm - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2934217362.
Read another Clark Ashton Smith short story collection, Lost Worlds: Volume 2: Atlantis, Hyperborea, Xiccarph and Others - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867995776and
Volume 1 of Joe Abercrombie's trilogy The Blade Itself - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2934335538.
81 books completed - 19 ahead of schedule. Typical, as the one year I set 150 as the target I fell a few short yet at the moment I seem on course to read well over 100, exactly like last year!
Wow, that's impressive! I'm ahead abd debating whether to increase or not
J Austen is on of my favourite authors. She was great writer before women's lib. of the twentieth century. She did have a fiance but sadly died before her marriage.
Ismat wrote: "J Austen is on of my favourite authors. She was great writer before women's lib. of the twentieth century. She did have a fiance but sadly died before her marriage."Well Worsley actually casts doubt on the 'fiance' bit .... she was proposed to more than once but was certainly settled into spinsterhood with its financial penalties but other compensations by her 30s. Her closest relationship was always with her sister Cassandra. It was Cassandra who had actually been engaged as a young woman but her fiance died of a disease while working abroad. Worsley certainly doubts if Jane would have been able to write if she had married.
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, that's impressive! I'm ahead abd debating whether to increase or not"I'm not sure how to do that Desley but maybe I will wait till I'm nearer the 100 and only add on another 20 to be on the safe side.
Read Blood Heritage by Sheri Tepper and posted a review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2939750061.
Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow, that's impressive! I'm ahead abd debating whether to increase or not"I'm not sure how to do that Desley but maybe I will wait till I'm nearer the 100 and only a..."
Its quite easy, I've done it before
Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Its quite easy, I've done it before "OK thanks Desley. If I get stuck, I'll ask you!
Read the follow up to Sheri Tepper's 'Blood Heritage', The Bones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2939751877.
Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Its quite easy, I've done it before "OK thanks Desley. If I get stuck, I'll ask you!"
No worries
Read Mark Lawrence's Prince of Thorns and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2943516699.
Read A Merritt's Seven Footprints to Satan and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649443781.
Read Barbara Michael's The Dancing Floor and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2946774412.
Read Stephen King's The Outsider and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2950259389.
Read Wild Chamber by Christopher Fowler and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2954357223.
Read Green Phoenix by Thomas Burnett Swan and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2950258456
Read The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2955788832.
Read a biography of Stephen King, Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2959462243and
Foxglove Summer, fifth in a series by Ben Aaronovitch - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963683666.
Read books 2 and 3 of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy and reviewed them:Before They Are Hanged - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963703654.
Last Argument of Kings - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963703816.
Prompted by a re-read on another group, read Garth Nix's Sabriel, first of the Abhorsen series, and sadly found it less involving than the first time around - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1274428027.
Finished Thomas Burnett Swann's Lady of the Bees and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2955794217.
Finished C J Sansom's Dissolution and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498550682.
The last book took me up to 98 out of my 100 book challenge so I have increased the challenge to 120 which should be doable.
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