10-21-2020, 10:48 AM | #29311 |
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I finished the most excellent A Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym last night for the MR Literary Book Club. I would not ever have thought to pick it up off the shelf myself, but it will almost certainly be in my top ten for the year now that I've read it. I checked it out from the library, but I am likely to purchase a copy for myself now.
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10-21-2020, 11:19 AM | #29312 | |
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And an amusing introduction by Auberon Waugh, as it was the first bit of Science Fiction he'd ever read! Next Up: Grantville Gazette VIII (print edition). Selected stories from Grantville Gazettes (e-versions) 31-45 inclusive. And a previously unpublished story by Eric Flint. |
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10-21-2020, 11:33 AM | #29313 |
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Trying to sample new flavors with Kate Clayborn's Love Lettering and learning quite a bit about calligraphy along the way. Who knows, by the time I finish it I may even grok why so many MR users obsess over ligatures. Or not.
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10-21-2020, 02:12 PM | #29314 |
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Love Lettering turned out to be a salutary lesson in the benefits of experimenting. A more satisfying read than I'd expected. Now on to two reasonably long-term residents of my TBR, Adrian Tchaikovsky's Children of Time and Aamin Maalouf's Samarkand
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10-22-2020, 11:38 AM | #29315 |
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My 3 star review of Sugar and Vice, by Eve Calder:-
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10-23-2020, 05:05 AM | #29316 |
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Still slowly working my way through Rhodes' The Making Of The Atomic Bomb, but in the meantime I've discovered a love of manga thanks to Humble Bundle satisfying my need of a palate-cleanser after each session with it! I'm now up to date with PTSD Radio by Masaaki Nakayama and five volumes deep with Kasane by Daruma Matsuura.
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10-25-2020, 12:18 AM | #29317 | |
Is that a sandwich?
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Next another freebie, Negation Force by Anthony James. |
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10-25-2020, 12:42 AM | #29318 |
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Just started The President's Plane Is Missing by Robert Serling.
I just finished Missing Amanda by Duane Lindsay. It was an editing read and I really enjoyed it. Immediately prior I read The Dead Daughter by Thomas Fincham, another editing read and another very good book. |
10-25-2020, 03:39 AM | #29319 |
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Just started Foreign Bodies, an anthology on crime/mystery stories from languages other than English, compiled by Martin Edwards. The first story is by some Russian guy called Anton Chekhov.
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10-25-2020, 06:16 AM | #29320 | |
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Then a read a recent freebie, Spellbreaker by Charlie N. Holmberg. This was a very readable fantasy romance, with a second part to come in 2021. But given that the background was supposed to be a Victorian England, the attitude to servants and other employees was really off. So an enjoyable read, but I can't give it more than 3/5. And now I'm reading A Liaden Universe Constellation, Volume 4 by Shareon Lee and Steve Miller. And it is absolutely splendid. it'll be a very solid 5/5 once I've finished it. |
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10-25-2020, 02:15 PM | #29321 |
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The second book in the Foreign Bodies anthology was written by Palle Rosenkrantz, a namesake and descendant of THE Rosenkrantz - who knew that Rosenkrantz and Gyldenstierne were real people, and not just figments of Tom Stoppard's imagination?
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10-25-2020, 02:49 PM | #29322 | |
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Next up: Tombland by C J Sansom. Set in mid-1500 England, it apparently covers Kett's Rebellion, and is mostly set in Norwich! (Tombland is the flat area in front of the cathedral close, where Norwich's market used to be until the Norman Conquest, when it was moved to be in front of the Castle.) |
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10-25-2020, 03:00 PM | #29323 |
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From the intro to a Maurice Leblanc story in Foreign Bodies "pit Lupin against characters with such names as Herlock Sholmes and Holmlock Shears." - I wonder what Donan Coyle thought of those stories?
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10-26-2020, 07:06 AM | #29324 |
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10-28-2020, 09:41 PM | #29325 |
Is that a sandwich?
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Readable but that's it. Weak characters. Technological inconsistencies. Sudden intelligence. Silly dialog. Nothing memorable. Rated D [2 stars]
Next hopefully something better, The Case of the Seven Whistlers by George Bellairs. |
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