Good morning, folks. I am writing this the night before, as usual, and very very sleepy. Thank you wife for once more coming to my rescue and setting most of this up!
Books acquired:
Books read this week:
Reviews posted this week:
The Hollow Man, by John Dickson Carr. I know Dickson Carr is the king of the locked room mystery, but this just wasn’t my thing. It’s all about the puzzle, not people. 2/5 stars
A Brief History of Everyone Who Ever Lived, by Adam Rutherford. Some interesting stuff, but a bit basic for me and very disorganised. 3/5 stars
A Kiss Before Dying, by Ira Levin. Meh, charming psychopath story. Well-written, but I’m sick of charming psychopaths. 2/5 stars
Threads of Life, by Clare Hunter. A fascinating history of embroidery and sewing; necessarily cherry picks some particularly interesting individual stuff, and no doubt misses out a lot of other things, but fascinating. 4/5 stars
The Copernicus Complex, by Caleb Scharf. I agree with Scharf mostly, but he takes a long time to get to actually expressing an opinion. It’s more a primer on factors that might be involved when you try and guess whether there’s life elsewhere in the universe. 3/5 stars
Other posts:
WWW Wednesday. Such book, very update, wow.
How’s everyone doing? Good week?
A very full week, looks like you got a lot of reading/reviews done. Magic for Liars looks interesting, doesn’t it?
I survived week one at New Job, and am spending the weekend in a blanket nest with a sore throat and no energy (oops). Hopefully I can sleep off the bug before week two comes to bite!
On the plus side, it means I had a chance to finish The Traitor Baru Cormorant (now one of my all-time faves; it had me at hello and it never let me go) and hopefully I can polish off Tiamat’s Wrath this afternoon if I don’t just fall asleep 😉
Your reads this week look intriguing – I look forward to hearing your thoughts when you get a chance to review them! Very excited about Magic For Liars too 🙂
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