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Finished a couple:Voices from Chernobyl: The Oral History of a Nuclear Disaster by Svetlana Alexievich - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4645329803
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Fool's Assassin by Robin Hobb - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405974073
A useful review, I was pondering the series when I saw a couple of them in a charity shop will didn't bother :-)
Jim wrote: "A useful review, I was pondering the series when I saw a couple of them in a charity shop will didn't bother :-)"Cheers Jim. I'm wading my way through vol 3 still. The last 3rd has a lot of action finally, but then 100 or more pages after that go back to characters not knowing that others are alive etc with their meeting postponed perpetually, and the main character being clueless about something which is patently obvious to the reader.....
Finished Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405975126
Well you've convinced me not to take that journey, which is a legitimate purpose of a review. Thanks :-)
Finished Spook Street by Mick Herron. Just as fab as the others in the Slough House series.Started Our House by Louise Candlish. And The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.
Read Lynda La Plante's Good Friday and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4697678185
Read another in the Jane Tennison series by Lynda La Plante, which I enjoyed more than the previous one - Murder Mile - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4697678360
Read another Jane Tennison novel by Lynda La Plante, The Dirty Dozen but not so keen on that one - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4697678485and a lighthearted fantasy as a change of pace -
The Blue King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4714397380
plus a good but grim Peter May - The Blackhouse - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4709774864
Just finished Our House by Louise Candlish.Just started Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis.
Read the concluding two volumes of Peter May's Lewis trilogy:The Lewis Man - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4714574194
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The Chessmen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4719780899
Big review catchup:The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4719802886
Richard III by David Baldwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737104501
and the 'Dogs of War' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737135182
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Bear Head - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737145116
Forgot to review this in my catchup - The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Stories - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4742503137
Re-read Zenna Henderson's first collection of People stories, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367373620
Re-read Zenna Henderson's The People: No Different Flesh - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367376610and read a police procedural by Margaret Kirk, In the Blood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4753256649
Just finished Another Now: Dispatches from an Alternative Present by Yanis Varoufakis and The Alice Network by Kate Quinn.Just started London Rules by Mick Herron, book 5 in his Slough House series.
A couple of non-fiction reads:Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769486601
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Language Of The Night by Ursula K Le Guin -reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4781491446
Re-read an account of the making of Blade Runner, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M Sammon - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2550670193 and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1400868533
Just realised accidentally put this in the old thread back at the end of June:Read two reference books about Star Trek: The Next Generation, by Mark A Altman and Edward Gross, both volumes marred by huge numbers of typos and some grammar errors:
New Voyages: The Next Generation Guidebook - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803747787
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New Voyages II: The Next Generation 5th Season Guidebook - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4803761760
Read this in late June and forgot to review it - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806466747
Just finished London Rules by Mick Herron.Just started Book Lovers by Emily Henry, and Propaganda by Edward L. Bernays.
Finished this horror/SF novel - not that keen - Stinger - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4852919842
Read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769435698and
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863696909
Read Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863753970
Just finished Book Lovers by Emily Henry for my book club. I'd never normally read a romance, but I enjoyed it.Just started How to Stop Time by Matt Haig, also for my book club. Great so far.
Just started You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen. It's feeling like a quality psychological thriller.
Wrote a couple of reviews today then realised I hadn't posted links for the previous two either:The Flamingo's Smile: Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4881240857
Shouting at the Wolf: A Guide to Identifying and Warding Off Evil in Everyday Life by Anderson Reed - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4900637716
My Evil Mother by Margaret Atwood - reviewed- https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4652840306
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Black House by Stephen King and Peter Straub - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1400873236
Just finished You Are Not Alone by Greer Hendricks and Sarah Pekkanen, a gripping psychological thriller.Just started QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham.
Catchup on reviews:The Mismeasure of Man by Stephen Jay Gould - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4890469146
Murder in Mesopotamia by Agatha Christie - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944504396
Agatha Christie's Secret Notebooks by John Curran - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944459470
Another small catchup:The Angel's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4944667024
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The Undead Day One by R R Haywood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4954715777
Read a couple more:All the Lies They Did Not Tell by Pablo Trincia - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4954773725
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Cora and the Nurse Dragon by H L Burke - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1617880583
Read Reaching Down the Rabbit Hole: Extraordinary Journeys into the Human Brain by Alan Ropper and Brian David Burrell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4961342032
Read The Sixth Ghost Book, Book One edited by Rosemary Timperley - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4965284364
just read The Ink Black Heart by Robert Galbraith and now reading Lords Of The North by Bernard Cornwell
Just finished QAnon and On: A Short and Shocking History of Internet Conspiracy Cults by Van Badham, which was pretty knockout.Just started a psychological thriller called That Night by Gillian McAllister, which I'm rather enjoying.
Read Dean Koontz's The Big Dark Sky - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4965596723and
Star Trek, Volume 1 by Mike Johnson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974581014
THE COMPELLED (illustrated novella) by Adam Roberts and François Schuitenhttps://online.fliphtml5.com/huahm/pody/
A rare venture into sci-fi...
A mysterious change has occurred in humanity. Nobody knows how, why or exactly when this change came about, but disparate, seemingly unconnected people have become afflicted with the uncontrollable desire to take objects and move them to other places, where the objects gather and begin to form increasingly alien, monolithic structures that appear to have vast technological implications. Some of the objects are innocuous everyday things—like a butter knife taken still greasy from a breakfast table or a dented cap popped off a bottle of beer. Others are far more complex—like the turbine of an experimental jet engine or the core of a mysterious weapon left over from the darkest days of WWII.
Where is the Compulsion coming from? And—possibly more importantly—when the machines they’re building finally turn on, what are they going to do?
"Visually gorgeous and highly recommended" —WASHINGTON POST
A couple read a little while ago and reviewed but forgot to post the links:Hunger by Michael Grant - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4978476191
The Djinn by Graham Masterton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4982389044
and a couple just read and reviewed -
Star Trek, Volume 2 by Mike Johnson - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4988299461
Blott on the Landscape by Tom Sharpe - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4988279991
Just finished That Night by Gillian McAllister, a psychological thriller, which I found pretty gripping.Just started The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid.
Catch up again - did the reviews but didn't post the links:Books 1 and 2 of a series by Paul Anthony Jones - Extinction Point - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996226161
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Exodus - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996261119
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Year One by Nora Roberts - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606453298
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The Serpent's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974662130
Just read a couple more:Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012848070
Rags of Time first in the Thomas Tallent series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012816399
Read The Wrecking Storm, book 2 in the Thomas Tallant series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012834126
Just finished The Last White Man by Mohsin Hamid, which I didn't particularly enjoy.Just started Reconstruction by Mick Herron, which is right up my street.
Read a couple in the Gaby Darin police procedural series by Jenny O'Brien, Silent Cry - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020347001 and Darkest Night - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020394514plus a supernatural/police procedural The Night Whispers by Caroline Mitchell - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020427536.
Read Where the Dead Walk by John Bowen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1641794529and
The Saracen's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5014299406
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Just started book 4 in the Slough House series, Spook Street by Mick Herron.