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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Reading a little outside my normal areas - Barbara Pym's Excellent Women for the current A Public Space reading event.
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Grand Sorcerer
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I took a break from Dungeon Crawler Carl to listen to Esi Edugyan's Washington Black. What an all around pleasant distraction.
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Recently started The Sky Vault. The third book in Benjamin Percy's Comet Cycle series. Audiobook version.
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The Grand Mouse 高貴的老鼠
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Now I'm reading Cast, in order of Disappearance by Simon Brett. The first of his Charles Paris mysteries. |
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Next up was God, No! by Penn Jullette. Fun, sometimes horrifying, reminiscences hung on alternative 10 commandments Now reading: Antimatter Blues by Edward Ashton. The sequel to Micky 7. |
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I just finished the 22nd book in the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston & Lincoln Child; Angel of Vengeance.
IMHO this series is overdue for an ending. What started out as crime thrillers with a paranormal hint has gone too far and isn't believable anymore. I don't mind fantastical books/series but this series started out rooted firmly in reality. It isn't that the books are now bad, but the story has clearly run its course and the authors are now making it more and more fantastical to keep going. Just send Pendergast off on his well earned retirement and let him pop up occasionally in the Nora Kelly series by the same authors (which I am enjoying so far). I also got annoyed with the authors showing off; using more difficult words than needed and describing historical things in detail when that isn't necessary. Now I'm in the mood for a sci-fy thriller so I've picked up Antarctica Station by A.G. Riddle. |
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Next up: New Voices in Science Fiction edited by Hannu Rajaniemi and Jacob Weisman. a freebie from Tachyon Publications. Good so far. |
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Started reading the Hollow Season by Joshua Luke Wisham it sounded promising, a story about a man who returns to his childhood hometown to bury his brother. The blurb describes how something is going on below the surface with strange whispers being heard and time slips occurring, sounds great, but and this is a big but, the writing is just one long continuous monologue of what the character is doing. Three pages, yes three pages were spent describing the character walking up to an old man to talk to him, then he says 11 words to him and another 3 pages are spent describing this and him then walking away, I got 57 pages in (out of 403) and gave up. Switched to The Meg a story about a giant killer shark, much easier to read
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