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Stacking the Shelves

Good morning! How’s everyone doing? This week has been relatively quiet, book-wise — just comics for me! TPBs And some single issues… Yep, a very Marvel week. What’s everyone else been picking up?

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Review – The Bards of Bone Plain

The Bards of Bone Plain, Patricia A. McKillip I love McKillip’s work, now that I’ve got into it; I actually found it a bit difficult to pick which of her books to read last night, and ultimately just...

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Review – Martin the Warrior

Martin the Warrior, Brian Jacques I hadn’t thought of rereading these seriously until I realised that reading a childhood book was on the list for a reading challenge, and then my sister returned all...

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Liking Problematic Things (And People)

It happens all the time in fandom. You’ve been watching something awesome, reading something, whatever, and it turns out that the creator said something racist or there’s an episode which really sucks...

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Review – Moon Called

Moon Called, Patricia Briggs This was a lot of fun. I guess it’s fairly standard for the sort of paranormal romance/urban fantasy genre, in terms of plot, but then there’s also a part Native American...

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Top Ten Tuesday

This week’s theme is “Ten Characters You Just Didn’t Click With” and actually, I’m having a bit of trouble thinking of it. Okay, here goes… Jill Pole and Prince Rillian from The Silver Chair. Actually,...

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Review – Magic Strikes

Magic Strikes, Ilona Andrews I only meant to pick up the second Patricia Briggs book when I was at the library, but then I spotted this and Magic Bleeds, and I couldn’t resist it. It’s exactly what I’m...

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September TBR

Here goes — another attempt at having a TBR! Of course, I can already think of books I want to read outside of the ones listed here. Guess I’ll just have to start reading faster… I can have another...

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Review – Curran POV Collection

Curran POV Collection, Gordon Andrews This one is just a bunch of vignettes from the point of view of Curran, the love interest of Kate Daniels, written by just one half of the husband-wife team. It’s...

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Review – The Lucifer Effect

The Lucifer Effect, Philip Zimbardo This is a horribly difficult book to read, not because Zimbardo’s writing is bad or the subject is uninteresting, but because it exposes how easily people can be...

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Review – Perdido Street Station

Perdido Street Station, China Miéville Originally reviewed 1st June, 2008 The description in this book is very good, in terms of the fact that it creates a very vivid picture. Of course, it also...

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Stacking the Shelves

Oh goodness, Stacking the Shelves snuck up on me this week. How’s everyone been doing? I thought I’d been behaving myself, but I just got a Kindle Voyage (so shiny) and a bunch of books and I took part...

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Review – The Magus

The Magus, John Fowles Once upon a time, I read The French Lieutenant’s Woman and, to my surprise, rather enjoyed it. It’s not the kind of novel I normally go for, but the writing is good, and it had...

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Review – Mariana

Mariana, Susanna Kearsley This surprised me with the bittersweetness of the ending. I guess I was expecting a happier one after The Winter Sea managed to work it all out. Still, it’s satisfying that...

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Review – Terra

Terra, Richard Hamblyn The subtitle of this book is “Four Events That Changed The World”, which might raise a question in some people’s minds since none is earlier than 1755. Well, it’s not saying...

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Guilty Pleasures

I’m sure I’ve said before that I’m reading something as a ‘guilty pleasure’ read. For a long time, I felt that way about Mary Stewart, Georgette Heyer, any urban fantasy I read, sometimes YA or...

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Top Ten Tuesday

This week’s prompt from The Broke and the Bookish is “ten finished series I have yet to finish”. Jacqueline Carey’s Agent of Hel. I think Poison Fruit is the last book, anyway? Soon I’ll get to it....

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Review – Built By Animals

Built By Animals, Mike Hansell This is not a book full of gorgeous full colour photographs of bowers made by birds, chimpanzee tools, termite nests, etc. I was a bit baffled to see someone giving it...

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Review – The Art Therapy Colouring Book

The Art Therapy Colouring Book, Richard Merritt, Hannah Davies, Cindy Wilde This book has high quality pages, so you can definitely use pens, and there are some lovely designs. They tend to be more...

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Review – In A Glass Darkly

In A Glass Darkly, Sheridan Le Fanu I’ve been meaning to read this for ages, so hurrah that I finally got round to it. It’s a classic of gothic/horror stories, though to the jaded modern eye, it might...

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