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I’ve decided graphic novels count towards the 100 books challenge, which is good, because this gave me a chance to catch up a bit this week. Still behind target though; last week was week 13 and I should have read 26 books by the end of it. I’ve only read 22. At some point, I’m…
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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 and it’s a massive 900 pages. Not only is it long, it’s dense. There’s a lot going on and it took me two weeks to…
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So, I just watched Becoming Human, the spin-off from the BBC’s excellent Being Human. Which takes a minor character (vampire) and adds a werewolf and ghost. New characters, but the same basic concept as Being Human. I thought I’d watch it because I love Being Human and I didn’t think it would be up to…
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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, and I was a teenager and couldn’t afford to buy a lot of books. I was also a bit of a hoarder, like my parents…
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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 a new category just for these. (Having just done that, it appears I missed one. There’s no review for Dead to the World, which I’m…
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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 books you are reading currently and add to your post.2. Describe the books and if you are enjoying them or not. Why?3. For every book…
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Aces High is the second in a shared world series edited by George R. R. Martin. It’s alternate history sci-fi which takes the 1950s as its jumping off point and postulates that a virus outbreak creates mutated humans. Some get superpowe rs and others get physical and mental disfigurements. The first book deals with people coping…
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This one is hot off the press! For me at least. Every so often a book comes out that I’m so excited about I buy it in hardback as soon as it’s published. I’m a fan of Joe Abercrombie’s work and his latest book, The Heroes, came out at the end of January. I bought…
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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 less read it.2. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. One of my favourite books; I’ve read it several times.3. The Drowned World by J. G.…
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I’m sticking to my policy of not reviewing non-fiction even though many of the 100 books I’ll read this year will be non-fiction. I’m making an exception for Stet by Diana Athill because it was the February choice for my book club. It is a memoir by someone who worked as an editor all her…
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