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Weekend reading! I'm really enjoying The Drowned Woods by Emily Lloyd-Jones at about halfway through. Next up is a novella - Rosalie Oaks' The Selkie Scandal - which should be a good light read. #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
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More books! Mark Hayden & Richard Osman are both reliably excellent reads. Deathless by Catherynne Valente was a dark but compelling Russian fairytale set in the 20th Century. Not an easy read but an excellent one nonetheless. For less woolly star ratings, I'm now on storygraph (law_geek) #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
Looking forward to starting these. First is Julie Kenner. It's been years since I last read one of hers so I hope I remember the backstory. They were rare for being middle-aged suburban mum fantasy books when she started out. Tirzah Price is new to me but supposed to be fun. #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
Weekend reading! If a British, supernatural Reacher type but with a dodgy sense of humour & an even dodgier leg sounds like your thing, you should really try Mark Hayden. The Seventh Star is his 7th book (counting down from 13) &, as usual, I'm enjoying it a lot. #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
February book round up. I absolutely loved The Fellowship of Puzzlemakers by Samuel Burr & The Second Chance by Charlotte Butterfield, with Deathless by Catherynne Valente & A Complication of Unicorns by Kim Watt just behind #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
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I'm #CurrentlyReading _Iron Sunrise_ by Charles Stross
I've had the book ever since it came out in mass-market paperback, and read it then. But now I've read _Singularity Sky_, I am catching more references. And of course it's been so long I might as well be reading a new book.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Iron_Sunrise/mJ2GbkWR-RgC?hl=en
Google BooksIron Sunrise“[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden. But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—and unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden but also the very order of the universe. And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows…
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I'm #CurrentlyReading _Singularity Sky_ by Charles Stross
I had _Iron Sunrise_ for years, then got fed up having not read the prior book, bought it, and it sat on my shelf for a couple years. Now I need to sit calmly with a physical book, so here I am.
https://www.google.com/books/edition/Singularity_Sky/K9pSfEQU0VgC?hl=en
Google BooksSingularity SkyIn a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins. The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...
Weekend reading! Two UK based books this time, both supposed to be excellent. Samuel Burr is certainly living up to my expectations at the halfway mark 
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"There in Peredelkino, on the ground floor of his dacha, lying on his narrow camp bed, Boris Pasternak was dying, killed by the Nobel Prize. In more than half a century since the prize was first given, the Russian poet was the first person it had killed." -- from 'A Dictator Calls' by Ismail Kadare, trans. John Hodgson
Like most people I first heard of the unspeakable crimes of Dominique Pericot when he stood trial last year. This book by his daughter is harrowing but is incredibly courageous and important. Read it if you can.
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Weekend reading! Shadowstitch is...ok. The plot's fine, although does it really need 650 pages, but the characters are so annoying. Yes, it's YA, but my god, they're annoying. I nearly dnf'ed at 28 pages. They're *that* annoying. Next up is Sarah Painter's second in series, The Book Keeper. Book 1 was very good, so I'm hopeful #amreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
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- Grab #TheNearestBook.
- Turn to page 42
- Find the 2nd sentence
- Post the sentence & Rules
- Don't look for your favourite, coolest or wittiest book. Go for the closest.
Behind the eye-slits were steady blue eyes.
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www.blackgate.comThe Omnibus Volumes of Jack Vance, Part II: Tales of the Dying Earth – Black Gate
#CurrentlyReading Trouble in Censorville: The Far Right's Assault on Public Education and the Teachers Who Are Fighting Back
#CurrentlyReading Black AF History: The Un-whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot
While the government is hurrying to cover-up Black history, I am going to take the time to read some more Black history.
Don't stop learning.
I'm re-reading BELLWETHER: A Novel by Connie Willis.
It's my ultimate nerd book. Would love to see it done as a movie with a few updates. #Bookstodon #Books #CurrentlyReading #ScienceFiction
https://bookshop.org/p/books/bellwether-connie-willis/10112867?ean=9780553562965&next=t&next=t
Weekend reading! A couple of light reads this weekend. First up is Lindsay Buroker's first in series, which is good so far, and then the third of Ramy Vance's troll PI books (the first two of which were entertaining) #amreading #weekendreading #currentlyreading #books #bookstodon
