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Category: Books

  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: A Noble Captive

    I try to read as widely as possible and sometimes that means reading things I don’t think I’m going to like. Things I don’t think I’m going to like include…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: Gridlinked

    Gridlinked by Neal Asher is essentially James Bond in a space opera setting. Ian Cormac has been an agent for Earth Central Services for thirty years and has been linked to…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: Size 14 is not Fat Either

    Size 14 is not Fat Either is the second Heather Wells mystery by Meg Cabot. Heather is an ex-popstar trying to start a new life working at a college in…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: The Taking

    Dean Koontz is one of those popular writers who are considered to be technically very good and a few years ago I read Intensity. The concept of the book was…


  • 100 Books in 2011 Review: Reaper’s Gale

    I’m now behind target with my 100 books challenge and this is the reason why. Reaper’s Gale by Steven Erikson is book 7 in the Malazan Book of the Fallen…


  • Do you keep books?

    The last post made me think about keeping books. I used to. But that was a long time ago, before the internet and the collapse of the net book agreement,…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Dead as a Doornail

    Dead as a Doornail is the fifth in Charlaine Harris’s Sookie Stackhouse series. In honour of the fact that there’s a review for each one on this blog I’ve created…


  • What I’m currently reading

    I got tagged by Martin at From Sand to Glass to do another book meme. It would be rude not to. The rules are: 1. Take a picture of the…


  • 12 Dystopian Novels

    Book meme! This list of twelve dystopian novels we all should have read comes from the Huffington Post. 1. We by Yevgeny Zamayatin. I’ve never even heard of this, much…


  • 100 Books in 2011 review: Free Fall

    I bought Free Fall by Robert Crais in a book buying addiction frenzy in Asda. They were selling a ton of books for a pound each. How am I supposed…


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