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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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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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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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![]() 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 ![]() Last edited by Lynx-lynx; 01-02-2014 at 07:14 PM. |
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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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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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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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