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Old 12-02-2023, 09:23 AM   #31627
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Next up: Shogun by James Clavell. An epic - over 1,000 pages!
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I interrupted Shogun to read a local book club book, The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams.
Finished Shogun. Fascinating. A good read. Massive lead up to a civil war, and
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the actual war itself takes less than a page.


Next I started, and abandoned, "Later Essays", part of Delphi Classic's complete Robert Louis Stevenson collection. Interesting, but not for me. I suspect I'll be discarding a lot of the minor works.

Now reading Father Christmas's Fake Beard by Terry Pratchett. Another collection of his early short fiction written for the paper he worked at as a journalist. Even this early stuff shows his brilliance. Great fun so far.
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