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My holiday reading was two novels by Charles Stross: one Laundry novel, The Fuller Memorandum, which I read out of sequence, and The Halting State.
They are both fun reads with lots of ideas. The Fuller Memorandum is set in 2008 and was published in 2010; The Halting State was published in 2008 and is set in 2017. The are both quite geeky but The Halting State much more so, it must be the most unashamedly geeky novel I have ever read. I can recommend them both but beware that the Laundry series is about Lovecraftian horrors and magic is just advanced computing; and Halting State is about online gaming. Which I don't do at all, and yet I enjoyed it.
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My review of Black Rose by Arlo Z. Graves.
At my blog: https://tinyurl.com/3mx8286r.
My other reviews at Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6.
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My review of Black Rose by Arlo Z. Graves.
At my blog: https://tinyurl.com/3mx8286r.
My other reviews at Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6.
#Fiction
#Fantasy
#darkfantasy
#weirdwestern
#speculativefiction
#haveread
#BookReview
#BookRecommendations -
My review of Black Rose by Arlo Z. Graves.
At my blog: https://tinyurl.com/3mx8286r.
My other reviews at Goodreads: https://tinyurl.com/3f2ru7n6.
#Fiction
#Fantasy
#darkfantasy
#weirdwestern
#speculativefiction
#haveread
#BookReview
#BookRecommendations -
Book 2: The e-reader recommended "Cloud Cuckoo Land," and I had some vague recollection that a friend had recommended Anthony Doerr, so got it. Read it. Loved it (for the most part).
My dad has been going back to his classical Greek in retirement, so I recommended ti to him. Turns out he had just finished Doerr's "All the Light We Cannot See," so that will likelly be next.
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So, let's see if I can use my enthusiasm for the pachyderm vs the bird to keep my #HaveRead list going this year.
Book 1: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel. I loved Station Eleven and The Glass Hotel even better. Picking up the characters and places again and re-examining them just keeps making her work better.