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Five stars. The best true spy story of WWII — and proof that ideas can win wars. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OperationMincemeat #militaryhistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/operation-mincemeat/

One spy stopped a nuclear war. This is his true story.
#books #bookreview #ColdWar #TrueStory
https://smpl.is/amnpa

Bookstore Treasures

https://caffeinatedpolitics.com/2026/09/05/bookstore-treasures/

This book follows wild missions like Operation Postmaster—where British fighters stole Nazi ships without firing a shot. Real-life James Bond stuff.
#books #bookreview #CovertWarfareBook #WW2Espionage #SpecialForcesHistory
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/churchill-secret-warriors/

The Battle of the Bulge. Hürtgen Forest. Market Garden. Hastings shows why the final months of WWII were the most brutal.
#books #bookreview #WWII #MaxHastings
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/battle-for-germany-book-review/

These tech builders failed — a lot. But they kept going. Isaacson shows how passion and grit matter more than genius alone.
#books #bookreview #TheInnovators #computerhistory
https://smpl.is/amnp7

Burned agents. Collapsed operations. Leaked secrets. Pincher maps every MI5 failure under Hollis and asks — what explains all this?
#books #bookreview #RogerHollis #ColdWar
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/mi5-soviet-spy/

Would you give your life for a cause that later erased your name? One American spy did exactly that.
#books #bookreview #truestory #history
https://smpl.is/amnof

Review - Welsh Food Stories, by Carwyn Graves: in which I learn that many of my food preferences are actually very Welsh. Some fun new info for me, albeit sometimes maybe a bit preachy. Rating: 4/5 ("really liked it").

Full review: https://breathesbooks.com/2026/09/06/review-welsh-food-stories/

#bookstodon #BookReview

A cosy and quirky #mystery set in the near future in a #Taiwanese town about lost memories, the bonding experience of delicious #food, omnipotent #technology and the human connections we all crave #bookstadon #QueerFiction #SciFi #books #bookreview #CosyMystery

http://contentcatnip.com/2026/09/06/book-review-all-that-holds-between-by-s-j-lee/?utm_source=mastodon&utm_medium=jetpack_social

My Stroke of Insight: A Brain Scientist's Personal Journey

A fascinating look at what a brain scientist's stroke looked like through her well-educated lens. It ends in an inspiring ode to mental health.

#BookReview #ScottsBookReview 💙📚🧪

https://scottjpearson.com/my-stroke-of-insight-a-brain-scientists-personal-journey/

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I've had a very generous offer with this book

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Romance #ContemporaryReview #RomanceReview #ContemporaryRomance #ContemporaryRomanceReview #Americana #SeriesDebut #College #CollegeRomance #ModernAmericana #BookSky💙📚

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I've had a very generous offer with this book

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Romance #ContemporaryReview #RomanceReview #ContemporaryRomance #ContemporaryRomanceReview #Americana #SeriesDebut #College #CollegeRomance #ModernAmericana #BookSky💙📚

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I've had a very generous offer with this book

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Romance #ContemporaryReview #RomanceReview #ContemporaryRomance #ContemporaryRomanceReview #Americana #SeriesDebut #College #CollegeRomance #ModernAmericana #BookSky💙📚

youtu.be/ZhfqULWAels

I've had a very generous offer with this book

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Romance #ContemporaryReview #RomanceReview #ContemporaryRomance #ContemporaryRomanceReview #Americana #SeriesDebut #College #CollegeRomance #ModernAmericana #BookSky💙📚

youtu.be/ZhfqULWAels

I've had a very generous offer with this book

#TheHeirsLair #Review #BookReview #Contemporary #Romance #ContemporaryReview #RomanceReview #ContemporaryRomance #ContemporaryRomanceReview #Americana #SeriesDebut #College #CollegeRomance #ModernAmericana #BookSky💙📚

Five stars. One of the strangest true crime stories I have ever read. Every word of it actually happened.
#books #bookreview #PaulLeRoux #nonfiction
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/criminal-mastermind-paul-le-roux/

Four stars. Not a thriller — a thoughtful, measured memoir that gives you the personal view from MI5's very top floor.
#books #bookreview #StellaRimington #history
https://smpl.is/amn1u

𝙒𝙖𝙮𝙬𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙨 𝙍𝙚𝙖𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙇𝙚𝙙𝙜𝙚𝙧: "𝘼𝙙𝙫𝙤𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙚" 𝙗𝙮 𝙀𝙙𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝘼𝙝𝙣 -

𝟯-𝗪𝗼𝗿𝗱 𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄:

Straightforward
Expository
Memoir

𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗣𝗼𝘀𝘁𝘂𝗿𝗲:

What promises of the memoir genre are frustrated/fulfilled here?

#bookreview #literature #books #book #reading #frictionalreading #3words #eddieahn #graphicnovel #memoir #advocate #environment #immigration #socialjustice #localpolitics

The Women of Wild Hill by Kirsten Miller and I'm still thinking about it. Three witches, five generations, one bloodline set on rebalancing the world. Fantasy on the surface, painfully real underneath. #bookstagram #bookreview #bookblogger #WomenOfWildHill #KirstenMiller #witchyreads #magicalrealism

https://viewsshewrites.com/the-women-of-wild-hill/

🆕 blog! “Book Review: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu”
★★★★☆

This is a gorgeous set of short stories - and a good deal more accessible than some of the heavyweight prose Liu has previously been involved with. Some of the stories contain sentences which are complex jewels to be savoured.

What I particularly like…

👀 Read more: https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2026/09/book-review-the-passing-of-the-dragon-and-other-stories-by-ken-liu/
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#BookReview #NetGalley #SciFi

Book Review: The Passing of the Dragon and Other Stories by Ken Liu

This is a gorgeous set of short stories - and a good deal more accessible than some of the heavyweight prose Liu has previously been involved with. Some of the stories contain sentences which are complex jewels to be savoured.

What I particularly like is the way he moves between almost-prosaic Earth-bound stories to the the most extraordinary flights of fancy. One story might be set in a downtown art gallery, the next in the ice-rings of a far-off planet. The creeping feeling of senescence haunts the reader as they flit from story to story.

Much like his full-length novel All That We See or Seem, Liu has an incredible knack for tapping in to modern fears and weaving tall tales around them. There's a tenderness in all his character - even when a couple of the stories go nowhere, it is still pleasant to spend time in the worlds he has created.

It is, perhaps, missing a cohesive theme - the dragons come and go throughout the stories. Nevertheless, a compelling work chock full of fantastical ideas.

If you're in the mood for a wide and varied selection of stories, this is well worth picking up.

Many thanks to NetGalley for the review copy. Passing of the Dragon is available to buy now.

In 1990 Kalugin went public and exposed the KGB's inner workings. Moscow turned on him fast. He didn't back down.
#books #bookreview #Spymaster #SovietIntelligence
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/spymaster/

The headlines only told part of the Escobar story. My full review of Killing Pablo is live now.
#books #bookreview #KillingPablo #truecrime
https://smpl.is/amn1r

The headlines only told part of the Escobar story. My full review of Killing Pablo is live now.
#books #bookreview #KillingPablo #truecrime
https://smpl.is/amn1r

The headlines only told part of the Escobar story. My full review of Killing Pablo is live now.
#books #bookreview #KillingPablo #truecrime
https://smpl.is/amn1r

The headlines only told part of the Escobar story. My full review of Killing Pablo is live now.
#books #bookreview #KillingPablo #truecrime
https://smpl.is/amn1r

The headlines only told part of the Escobar story. My full review of Killing Pablo is live now.
#books #bookreview #KillingPablo #truecrime
https://smpl.is/amn1r

Winding Up the Week #483
https://bookjotter.com/2026/09/05/winding-up-the-week-483/
In this week’s slightly shorter wind up I focus on books read and reviewed, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read a New Book Month, National Read a Book Day, Roald Dahl Day and the birthdays of Alice Sebold, China Miéville and others) and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet. #Bookstodon #AmReading #Books #BookReview #bookbloggers
#ReadANewBookMonth #NationalReadaBookDay #RoaldDahlDay

Winding Up the Week #483
https://bookjotter.com/2026/09/05/winding-up-the-week-483/
In this week’s slightly shorter wind up I focus on books read and reviewed, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read a New Book Month, National Read a Book Day, Roald Dahl Day and the birthdays of Alice Sebold, China Miéville and others) and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet. #Bookstodon #AmReading #Books #BookReview #bookbloggers
#ReadANewBookMonth #NationalReadaBookDay #RoaldDahlDay

Winding Up the Week #483
https://bookjotter.com/2026/09/05/winding-up-the-week-483/
In this week’s slightly shorter wind up I focus on books read and reviewed, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read a New Book Month, National Read a Book Day, Roald Dahl Day and the birthdays of Alice Sebold, China Miéville and others) and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet. #Bookstodon #AmReading #Books #BookReview #bookbloggers
#ReadANewBookMonth #NationalReadaBookDay #RoaldDahlDay

Winding Up the Week #483
https://bookjotter.com/2026/09/05/winding-up-the-week-483/
In this week’s slightly shorter wind up I focus on books read and reviewed, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read a New Book Month, National Read a Book Day, Roald Dahl Day and the birthdays of Alice Sebold, China Miéville and others) and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet. #Bookstodon #AmReading #Books #BookReview #bookbloggers
#ReadANewBookMonth #NationalReadaBookDay #RoaldDahlDay

Winding Up the Week #483
https://bookjotter.com/2026/09/05/winding-up-the-week-483/
In this week’s slightly shorter wind up I focus on books read and reviewed, keep up with a variety of literary anniversaries (including Read a New Book Month, National Read a Book Day, Roald Dahl Day and the birthdays of Alice Sebold, China Miéville and others) and call attention to fascinating features from across the Internet. #Bookstodon #AmReading #Books #BookReview #bookbloggers
#ReadANewBookMonth #NationalReadaBookDay #RoaldDahlDay

Spies tracked a courier. A president made the call. The hunt ended in Abbottabad. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OsamaBinLaden #MarkBowden
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-finish/

Spies tracked a courier. A president made the call. The hunt ended in Abbottabad. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OsamaBinLaden #MarkBowden
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-finish/

Spies tracked a courier. A president made the call. The hunt ended in Abbottabad. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OsamaBinLaden #MarkBowden
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-finish/

Spies tracked a courier. A president made the call. The hunt ended in Abbottabad. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OsamaBinLaden #MarkBowden
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-finish/

Spies tracked a courier. A president made the call. The hunt ended in Abbottabad. My full review is live now.
#books #bookreview #OsamaBinLaden #MarkBowden
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/the-finish/

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Sharing vs ownership. Open code vs business. Levy asks what happens when a culture built on freedom meets money. No easy answer.
#books #bookreview #Hackers #techhistory
https://smpl.is/amn1o

Fear ruins good lives. The second half of this book shows how politicians destroyed a national hero during the Red Scare. Here is my verdict.
#books #bookreview #politics #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/american-prometheus-book-review/

Fear ruins good lives. The second half of this book shows how politicians destroyed a national hero during the Red Scare. Here is my verdict.
#books #bookreview #politics #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/american-prometheus-book-review/

Fear ruins good lives. The second half of this book shows how politicians destroyed a national hero during the Red Scare. Here is my verdict.
#books #bookreview #politics #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/american-prometheus-book-review/

Fear ruins good lives. The second half of this book shows how politicians destroyed a national hero during the Red Scare. Here is my verdict.
#books #bookreview #politics #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/american-prometheus-book-review/

Fear ruins good lives. The second half of this book shows how politicians destroyed a national hero during the Red Scare. Here is my verdict.
#books #bookreview #politics #history
https://thisgrandpablogs.com/american-prometheus-book-review/

This book goes further than Their Trade is Treachery. Pincher adds new names, new cases, and a Soviet female spy who matched Hollis in reach.
#books #bookreview #ChapmanPincher #MI5
https://smpl.is/amn1l

This book goes further than Their Trade is Treachery. Pincher adds new names, new cases, and a Soviet female spy who matched Hollis in reach.
#books #bookreview #ChapmanPincher #MI5
https://smpl.is/amn1l