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Books of December 2024

08 January, 2025 - 222 words
Two recommendations from people at work this month! The Centre - interesting but by the end I really disliked the main character, which is a bit of a shame since she's sort of touted in-book as a strong, diverse, open-minded lead and it gave me real concerns about the author. I can't...

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Books of November 2024

08 January, 2025 - 120 words
In November I was still not in the mood for reading and so made my way through Hail Mary AGAIN and Vera Wong's Unsolicited Advice for Murderers

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Books of October 2024

08 January, 2025 - 138 words
Moondial - I actually got this out from the library for my daughter to read over Halloween but she wasn't interested and so I read it, having seen a few episodes of the TV version in the late 80s. This was surprisingly spooky! It was also quite entertaining despite the loose ends and unresolved questions. A good ghos...

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Books of September

11 November, 2024 - 96 words
I was tired in September, so I read the 7 books of the Murderbot Diaries. Again. There's something about a these which are absolute comfort reading for me. After enjoying Hardwired earlier in the year I picked up

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Books of August

13 October, 2024 - 288 words
I started but did not finish a friend's copy of Thomas Paine's Rights of Man (1791) which frankly made me far too angry. On a very different track, I did finish

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Books of July 2024

24 September, 2024 - 534 words
The Locked Room, by Paul Auster is the final book in The New York Trilogy and demonstrates that the trilogy really is a single book divided into three large sections. I thought this was substantially better than the other two, being able to build on the foundations they laid, and I had to take a two-week brea...

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Books of June 2024

04 August, 2024 - 145 words
A quiet month for reading, mostly of the first two books in The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, who died recently. These are post-modern detective stories and really quite curious beasts, although well-...

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Books of May 2024

06 July, 2024 - 285 words
May saw books set in the future and the past. The Arc of a Scythe trilogy by Neal Shusterman, made up of Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll were an interesting look at a future where humanity has overcome death and instituted an organisation called Scythes whose role is to kill a fixed number of people per year in orde...

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Books of April 2024

13 May, 2024 - 430 words
It's springtime! What was I reading? Hardwired by Walter Jon Williams - “the acknowledged inspiration for the games Cyberpunk Red and Cyberpunk 2077” follows a smuggler who connects his brain directly to his vehicle when running across borders and a street mercenary who took the wrong job. Can they face off against the ruler...

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Books of March 2024

30 April, 2024 - 320 words
Gosh, April nearly slipped away without me noting what I read last month. Here we go: Gateway by Frederik Pohl, one of the S.F. Masterworks series and an odd book, more about a man’s visit to his (robot) psychiatrist than exploring the galaxy (and certainly not the space opera I was sold by the blurb on the back), but an interesting start to a series of books for sure.

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