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I have fifty pages to go and I have to go out for dinner? Are you kidding me?

Delanyden - ! KSR you are having too much fun.

I do adore a bit of righteous scathing and KSR serves it up well (p140)

Also the use of the term 'instinctive' to describe women's diplomatic abilities is problematic. So is a mother 'pestering' a potential benefactor on behalf of her son.

This book falls into the same trap as many books that want to discuss women in history fall into. That is, presumably because they want to set the context (that's the charitable reading), the book ends up being a general history of war etc with the women sometimes tacked on, or - best case - given more prominence than general histories do but they're still not the overwhelming focus. It's frustrating.

Some careless typos in this book are really annoying me.

I've read like six other books since I started this. Is that a sign?

Argh. That moment where you have to pick a new book to read... AGAIN.

Finished Bitterwood Bible (again). Now I'm going to read Sourdough (at last). Is it going to be bad that I'm going to a sourdough course on Sunday?

I'm loving this book more than is possibly reasonable.

I'm liking this way, way more than I though I would.

This book is horrifying.

From the sublime to the ridiculous...

Note to self: xiii re perception of self!

By golly I love Miller and Holden together.

Another book off the TBR list. This one I did not enjoy but fortunately it only took the day to read...

Felt sad and needed a book that would cheer me up. My copy of this went missing ages ago so I bought a new copy just after Pratchett died... so that's what I picked. And yup, it worked. Made me happy over the last few days. This is still probably my favourite Discworld - not because it's the best, necessarily, but because I feel the like the jokes are for me. And I know there are a few that I don't get. And I love it

“My boys—my real boys—used to call me “Maggie.” They took care of me and I took care of them. I used to love cooking for them” Excerpt From: Kratman, Tom. “Big Boys Don't Cry.” Yup, that's a warship speaking. Also, "woe I've lost my humans and they've been replaced with drones!" ... now why does that sound familiar again?

new Alastair Reynolds AND a biography of Alexander Kerensky ON THE SAME DAY? Doesn't get much better!

Hey, with Kim Stanley Robinson's AURORA I hit 500 books read since I started keeping track in 2011! includes 31 graphic novels and a few short stories as well... I started tracking female authors in 2013; I've read 135 female authored-books since then.

well, when I say I want to read Cherry Crow Children, that's with a very loose and very suspicious version of 'want.'

Feeling crap so this seems like the perfect book to finally start.

So if I was going to start a serious read of novels and anthols for 2015, looking forward to 2016 awards, what should I be reading and looking forward to?