I really liked this book. All the main characters were female, including the scientists who developed and built the first time travel machines and subsequently ran the company that owned and controlled them. Other than this, the book felt like a classic old style sci-fi. Unlike many time-travel stories, there was no danger involved inContinue reading “The Psychology of Time Travel – Kate Mascarenhas – 06.08.23”
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The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese – (Audiobook) – 03.08.23
Abraham Verghese’s previous book, Cutting For Stone, is by far my favourite book that my book group has read over it’s twenty years and so I was very excited for this long awaited new novel. At over 31 hours the audiobook is very long, but at no point during the listen was I bored, andContinue reading “The Covenant of Water – Abraham Verghese – (Audiobook) – 03.08.23”
The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous Book 2) – Kate Griffin – 28.07.23
I’m still enjoying this spin off to the Matthew Swift Midnight Mayer series more than the original although you do have to be familiar with the Midnight Mayer books to understand what is going on in these. I like the character of Sharon Li, Sharman and leader of the Magicals Anonymous, the rag-tag band ofContinue reading “The Glass God (Magicals Anonymous Book 2) – Kate Griffin – 28.07.23”
Our Missing Hearts (AUDIOBOOK)- Celeste Ng (Author), Lucy Liu (Narrator) – 21.07.23
I loved this book! I was enraptured listening to the tale set in an alternate present in America where after a global financial crisis which crippled the American economy is blamed on China, anti Asian feeling is rife and extends to all East Asians and even to anyone displaying any interest in or sympathies towardsContinue reading “Our Missing Hearts (AUDIOBOOK)- Celeste Ng (Author), Lucy Liu (Narrator) – 21.07.23”
The Twins – (AUDIOBOOK) L. V. Matthews (Author), Rebecca Norfolk (Narrator), Olivia Dowd (Narrator), – 19.07.23
I did not like this book. Recently I’ve read and enjoyed several books recommended by my daughter, Becca, and she recommended this one. I should have known it would not be my cup of tea – I rarely like this kind of best seller psychological thriller , although sometimes I do… I don’t know whatContinue reading “The Twins – (AUDIOBOOK) L. V. Matthews (Author), Rebecca Norfolk (Narrator), Olivia Dowd (Narrator), – 19.07.23”
The Good, the Bad and the History: Chronicles of St Mary’s, Book 14 – Jodi Taylor, Zara Ramm, et al. – (Audiobook) – 16.07.23
I very much enjoyed this latest installment of the Chronicles of St Mary’s – I was honestly gripped and as usually filled with all the feels – humour, pathos, romance, tension as well as the interesting thoughts raised by the idea of time travel. Yay! (I just got sidetracked by reading a very enjoyable discussionContinue reading “The Good, the Bad and the History: Chronicles of St Mary’s, Book 14 – Jodi Taylor, Zara Ramm, et al. – (Audiobook) – 16.07.23”
The Ward Witch (Unholy Island Book 1) – Sarah Painter – 16.07.23
I love Sarah Painter’s Urban Fantasy series, Crow Investigations, so I was excited to read the first in her new Unholy Island Series. Like urban fantasy, this is set in the ‘real world’ but with magical and/or mythical elements, but the difference with this series is that instead of being set in a big cityContinue reading “The Ward Witch (Unholy Island Book 1) – Sarah Painter – 16.07.23”
Bound: An Alex Verus Novel – Benedict Jacka- 12.07.23
I had started this book a wee while ago, and then paused it to read the Silo trilogy, since I was excited about that because of watching the Silo TV show, and then finished this book after I’d read all three of the silo books, so my impression of it was probably not helped byContinue reading “Bound: An Alex Verus Novel – Benedict Jacka- 12.07.23”
The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (AUDIOBOOK) – Sean Lusk (Author), Clare Corbett (Narrator), Bert Seymour (Narrator) – 08.07.23
Early on in this book I was struck (and a bit irritated) by how the plot seemed to borrow so much from two fabulous books that I have recently read: The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley and The Weather Woman by Sally Gardner. Like The Watchmaker of Filigree street, the protagonist was aContinue reading “The Second Sight of Zachary Cloudesley (AUDIOBOOK) – Sean Lusk (Author), Clare Corbett (Narrator), Bert Seymour (Narrator) – 08.07.23”
Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (AUDIOBOOK) – 05.07.23
This is Barbara Kingsolver’s modern retelling of the Dickens’ Classic, David Copperfield. In my late teens/early twenties I went through a Dickens phase and some of them really stick in my mind (Bleak House, A Tale of Two Cities and Great Expectations) but I couldn’t remember if I’d read David Copperfield, and I certainly couldn’tContinue reading “Demon Copperhead – Barbara Kingsolver (AUDIOBOOK) – 05.07.23”
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