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Book review: Project Hail Mary
I’ve been doing really well for reading so far this year. After setting a Goodreads target of 70 books, I’m at 37 already (text and audiobooks), and there’s been some really great ones there too. I’ve written short reviews of … Continue reading
The Bloody Jack Adventures: Thoughts Continued
When I last talked about the Bloody Jack Adventures, the series of historical adventure novels by L.A. Meyer, I had read five of the twelve books. As of this week, I have completed the whole series, and so I’m able … Continue reading
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Tagged Bloody Jack Adventures, book review, Jacky Faber, L.A. Meyer
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The Bloody Jack Adventures: Books 1 to 5
It’s not often you find a book series that you fall so in love with, you just can’t stop reading and you jump straight from one instalment to the next. But that’s how I’m feeling right now. The book series … Continue reading
Book review: 50 Dinosaur Tales
Note: I received an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review. I Know Dino is a weekly podcast – hosted by Garret Kruger and Sabrina Ricci – which features dinosaur-related news items, interviews, and facts on the … Continue reading
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Tagged 50 Dinosaur Tales, book review, dinosaurs, I Know Dino, palaeontology, Sabrina Ricci
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Book review: The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
Most dinosaur books I’ve read take a general ‘big picture’ approach: they go over the well known taxonomic groups of dinosaur (theropods, sauropodomorphs, etc) with additional chapters describing things like the world that dinosaurs lived in, how they behaved, how … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, dinosaurs, palaeontology, Steve Brusatte, The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs
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Book review: Akresha
Lancashire-based author Jay Tomkinson has recently published his first novel, Akresha – and after learning about it, I was interested to check it out. The protagonist, Jake, has recently been released after the latest of several spells in prison, and … Continue reading
Book review: Middlemarch (plus The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists)
After listening to the audiobook of Ulysses, and reading War and Peace in print, the last two audiobooks I listened to have also been “classics” that frequently appear on “books to read before you die” lists: The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists by … Continue reading
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Tagged book review, George Eliot, Middlemarch, The Ragged-Trousered Philanthropists
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War and Peace: Yes, It’s Long, But It’s Worth It
Whenever somebody makes a joke or statement regarding a really, really long book, War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy is the typical reference point. It’s certainly so long as to be intimidating, containing 587,287 words. In contrast, the longest Harry … Continue reading
Book review: Under The Dome
Under the Dome – Stephen King This novel begins with a simple concept: on an ordinary Saturday morning, the little town of Chester’s Mill in Maine is abruptly surrounded by an invisible force field. The dome extends for miles both … Continue reading
Looking Back at 2016
We can’t know how people will look back on 2016 decades from now, but it has certainly felt tough and filled with uncertainty at this moment. The Olympics were certainly a high point, but times have often been troubled, with … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 in review, book review, film review, New Year's resolutions
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