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Old 01-01-2014, 09:56 AM   #61
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Some glitch with the Goodreads app doesn't have Lucifer's Hammer, by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle, showing up on my 'Read' list, although when I search for it, it does come up, shows I've read it, and shows I've also rated it with 5 stars. That was another book I couldn't put down.
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Old 01-01-2014, 04:00 PM   #62
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Some glitch with the Goodreads app doesn't have Lucifer's Hammer, by David Niven and Jerry Pournelle, showing up on my 'Read' list, although when I search for it, it does come up, shows I've read it, and shows I've also rated it with 5 stars. That was another book I couldn't put down.
That's Larry Niven. One of their best books was Oath of Fealty.
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Old 01-01-2014, 08:27 PM   #63
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That's Larry Niven...



Gonna change that right now...
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This is the first year that I have kept track of my reading. Read 83 books (didn't count the ones I gave up on) , but no five stars... Four stars were:

Fiction
The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Penman
The Cuckoo's Calling (Cormoran Strike) by Robert Galbraith
Suspect by Robert Crais
The Girl You Left Behind by Jojo Moyes
Honeymoon in Paris: A Novella by Jojo Moyes
New Graves At Great Norne by Henry Wade
Bryant and May Off the Rails (Bryant & May 8) by Christopher Fowler
Bryant & May and the Memory of Blood (Bryant & May 9) by Christopher Fowler
The Killings at Badger's Drift: A Chief Inspector Barnaby Mystery (01) by Caroline Graham
Telling Tales (Vera Stanhope 2) by Ann Cleeves
Dead Water (Shetland Quartet 5) by Ann Cleeves
Blue Lightning (Shetland Quartet 4) by Ann Cleeves
Red Bones (Shetland Quartet 3) by Ann Cleeves
White Nights (Shetland Quartet 2) by Ann Cleeves
Raven Black (Shetland Quartet 1) by Ann Cleeves
The Darkness and the Deep (Marjorie Fleming 2) by Aline Templeton
The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (Flavia de Luce Mystery) by Alan Bradley

Non-fiction
The Practical Dog Listener: The 30-Day Path to a Lifelong Understanding of Your Dog by Jan Fennell
The Dog Listener: Learning the Language of your Best Friend by Jan Fennell
Cesar Millan's Short Guide to a Happy Dog: 98 Essential Tips and Techniques by Cesar Millan
Consider the Fork: A History of Invention in the Kitchen by Bee Wilson
The Search for Anne Perry by Joanne Drayton
The Churchills: In Love and War Mary S. Lovell
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Dead Water (Shetland Quartet 5) by Ann Cleeves
Shetland Quartet 5, eh?
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There were a lot, but let me list just a few:

Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2) by Joe Abercrombie
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3) by Joe Abercrombie
Retribution Falls (Tales of the Ketty Jay, #1) by Chris Wooding
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1) by China Miéville
Grendel by John Gardner
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Shetland Quartet 5, eh?


The first book was meant to be a standalone book, but as it was so popular she ended up writing another Shetland mystery, and then another - until she had completed a quartet. It's been adapted for TV now too, so I guess it's just going to the the Shetland series 'cos it doesn't look like stopping anytime soon.

I've got the first in the series 'Raven Black', looking forward to reading it as the series seems to be very well reviewed.
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I have Raven Black, too, in paperback, and I saw the TV adaptation of the second one. Must have missed the first one, but that's ok because I haven't read it yet.
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There wasn't an absolutely outstanding book for me this year, but some excellent reads none the less.

New Authors (for me) and excellent reads!!
Sulari Gentill, A few Right Thinking Men
Sulari Gentill, Decline in Prophets
Sulari Gentill, Miles Off Course
Sulari Gentill, Paving the New Road
Mohsin Hamid, The Reluctant Fundamentalist
Robert Harris, Enigma
Robert Harris, The Fear Index
Andrew Martin, The Necropolis Railway
Louise Penny, Still Life
Louise Penny, Dead Cold

Continuing series authors - always great reads!!
Kerry Greenwood, Murder and Mendelssohn
Donna Leon, The Golden Egg
Michael Pearce, The Bride Box
Martin Walker, The Resistance Man
Jacqueline Winspear, Leaving Everything Most Loved


Non-fiction - Engrossing Reads
Christopher Catherwood, A Brief History of the Middle East
Sarah Helm, A Life in Secrets - The Story of Vera Atkins and the Lost Agents of SOE

I have to say that a lot of my year I was reading books to do with HTML5, CSS, PHP, SQL, MySql, Javascript, JQuery etc Yep - web design stuff and I'm currently sick of it! So any other reading was bound to be ab fab
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I had two 5-star reads this year, and that is two more than I had last year! They are: An American Wife by Curtis Sittenfeld, and Born to Run by Christopher McDougall. A five-star read must dazzle me as I'm reading it, AND have a satisfying ending.

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Shetland Quartet 5, eh?
Yes, I know I should tidy up my LibraryThing titles a bit for the 2013 reads. I'm glad I discovered Ann Cleeves. I have gone back and read some of her earlier, work, but I don't think is as good...
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My only ***** novel was No Easy Day: The Firsthand Account of the Mission That Killed Osama Bin Laden by Mark Owen. I was really, really, really close on A Dance of Blades by David Dalglish. ****1/2 stars if Goodreads had such a ranking.
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Yep I agree with the last few posts. I don't really rank/star my reads unless forced to by something like an Amazon review. And besides a 5 is like a perfect 10, there's no such thing.
I see what you are getting at, but then surely your are just using a 4 star rating system, as nothing will ever reach a 5? I think a recalibration of your rating system may be in order .

My 8 are:

Life After Life, by Kate Atkinson
Lolita, by Vladimir Nabokov
Stein on Writing, by Sol Stein
Kindred, by Octavia E. Butler
Pines (Wayward Pines #1), by Blake Crouch
Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story, by Arnold Schwarzenegger
Never Go Back (Jack Reacher, #18), by Lee Child
The Third Bullet (Bob Lee Swagger, #8), by Stephen Hunter
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Back in #8, I wrote that my two 2013 five-star reads were available in paper only.

From a MobileRead standpoint, 2014 is already way better.

I just finished my first 2014 book. It's a five-star story of family love surviving all efforts to destroy it -- and an eBook:

Jung Chang, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China
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