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  1. Mike Rapport, City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque #FridayReads

  2. Mike Rapport, City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle Époque #FridayReads

  3. "how light the weight of one year's work ..."

    Don Pyle marvelled as he held his book Rough Description (ECW Press) for the first time. He spoke about this and much about the Toronto and Canadian music and art scene of which he's been an important part for decades - all in his recent interview on the Toronto Legends podcast: torontolegends.ca/don-pyle/

    This fine, charming, revealing and moving memoir is my #FridayReads: ecwpress.com/products/rough-de

  4. "how light the weight of one year's work ..."

    Don Pyle marvelled as he held his book Rough Description (ECW Press) for the first time. He spoke about this and much about the Toronto and Canadian music and art scene of which he's been an important part for decades - all in his recent interview on the Toronto Legends podcast: torontolegends.ca/don-pyle/

    This fine, charming, revealing and moving memoir is my #FridayReads: ecwpress.com/products/rough-de

  5. Clarkesworld 238; HyphenPunk 10; Keith Wrightson, Ralph Tailor’s Summer: A Scrivener, his City and the Plague #FridayReads

  6. Clarkesworld 238; HyphenPunk 10; Keith Wrightson, Ralph Tailor’s Summer: A Scrivener, his City and the Plague #FridayReads

  7. Generally, a fantasy tale about a time traveling sailing vessel with a crew about to attempt an Ocean's Eleven-style heist should be right up my alley, especially with such a great cover. Unfortunately, The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig isn't quite getting it done. Almost. Not quite. It is not bad, but not good enough to make me want to read the next book in the series. #FridayReads #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #Fiction

  8. Generally, a fantasy tale about a time traveling sailing vessel with a crew about to attempt an Ocean's Eleven-style heist should be right up my alley, especially with such a great cover. Unfortunately, The Girl From Everywhere by Heidi Heilig isn't quite getting it done. Almost. Not quite. It is not bad, but not good enough to make me want to read the next book in the series. #FridayReads #Books #Bookstodon #AmReading #Fiction

  9. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller; Patrick O’Brian, The Ionian Mission #FridayReads

  10. Carlo Ginzburg, The Cheese and the Worms: The Cosmos of a Sixteenth-Century Miller; Patrick O’Brian, The Ionian Mission #FridayReads

  11. This week I'm reading 'Hamnet' by Maggie O'Farrell.

    It's for a book discussion next week and I have to admit, I'm disappointed in it. The film got tons of acclaim (I still need to see it), and the book has been reasonably well received. But it's not really anything special, just pretty standard historical fiction so far and doesn't really try to do anything new or different.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  12. This week I'm reading 'Hamnet' by Maggie O'Farrell.

    It's for a book discussion next week and I have to admit, I'm disappointed in it. The film got tons of acclaim (I still need to see it), and the book has been reasonably well received. But it's not really anything special, just pretty standard historical fiction so far and doesn't really try to do anything new or different.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  13. Clarkesworld 237; Homer, The Odyssey (tr Anthony Verity) #FridayReads

  14. Clarkesworld 237; Homer, The Odyssey (tr Anthony Verity) #FridayReads

  15. I am also listening to the end of 'The Furthest Station' by Ben Aaronovitch and will probably be starting 'Lies Sleeping' on my way home from the astronomy lecture tonight.

    I've already said how much I love the Rivers of London books, and this one is just as delightful and filled with delightful ghosts!

    #FridayReads

    @bookstodon

  16. I am also listening to the end of 'The Furthest Station' by Ben Aaronovitch and will probably be starting 'Lies Sleeping' on my way home from the astronomy lecture tonight.

    I've already said how much I love the Rivers of London books, and this one is just as delightful and filled with delightful ghosts!

    #FridayReads

    @bookstodon

  17. This week I'm reading 'Radiant Star' by Ann Leckie.

    It's slow and lovely and everything that Leckie does so well (I'm reading about water treatment on an alien planet right now). To go with my usual water-related comparison to reading, it's like soaking in a warm bath, where sometimes the water is a little too hot in places.

    I feel that this book integrates some of the ideas she had for 'The Raven Tower' stories, but they fit better with her SF universe.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  18. This week I'm reading 'Radiant Star' by Ann Leckie.

    It's slow and lovely and everything that Leckie does so well (I'm reading about water treatment on an alien planet right now). To go with my usual water-related comparison to reading, it's like soaking in a warm bath, where sometimes the water is a little too hot in places.

    I feel that this book integrates some of the ideas she had for 'The Raven Tower' stories, but they fit better with her SF universe.

    #FridayReads
    @bookstodon

  19. It was a slow start, but I'm a couple hours into the audiobook for The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and the story is starting to pick up the pace. I love history but am not particularly familiar with Inquisition-era Spain (or am I? Some themes are, unfortunately, playing out today in the US), so this is a learning experience for me. The Jewish perspective is particularly interesting. And the magic. The magic helps. 😎 #Bookstodon #FridayReads #Books #Fiction @bookstodon

  20. It was a slow start, but I'm a couple hours into the audiobook for The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo and the story is starting to pick up the pace. I love history but am not particularly familiar with Inquisition-era Spain (or am I? Some themes are, unfortunately, playing out today in the US), so this is a learning experience for me. The Jewish perspective is particularly interesting. And the magic. The magic helps. 😎 #Bookstodon #FridayReads #Books #Fiction @bookstodon

  21. Robin Osborne, Greece in the Making, 1200-479BC (2nd ed) #FridayReads