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Recently read:
Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle Earth (new edition, which incorporates the recently published supplementary materials and includes an appendix on the films): ( a very good book about Tolkien )
Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog: ( one from the Russian )
Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch: ( and another Russian book )
Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black: ( this is the book you should all read )
Just started reading:
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora: A truly dire opening paragraph, but the first chapter is shaping up nicely, and at the moment I think I will like this. [ETA: I am now a third of the way in and do like it well enough.]
Recently put down:
Lindsey Davis, See Delphi and Die: Oh dear. You know, I really enjoyed the early Falco novels (and reread a couple earlier this summer), but the series as a whole just doesn't stand up well. I'll probably finish this, eventually. Or maybe not.
Tom Shippey, The Road to Middle Earth (new edition, which incorporates the recently published supplementary materials and includes an appendix on the films): ( a very good book about Tolkien )
Boris Akunin, Sister Pelagia and the White Bulldog: ( one from the Russian )
Sergei Lukyanenko, Night Watch: ( and another Russian book )
Hilary Mantel, Beyond Black: ( this is the book you should all read )
Just started reading:
Scott Lynch, The Lies of Locke Lamora: A truly dire opening paragraph, but the first chapter is shaping up nicely, and at the moment I think I will like this. [ETA: I am now a third of the way in and do like it well enough.]
Recently put down:
Lindsey Davis, See Delphi and Die: Oh dear. You know, I really enjoyed the early Falco novels (and reread a couple earlier this summer), but the series as a whole just doesn't stand up well. I'll probably finish this, eventually. Or maybe not.