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Showing posts with label Adam's TBR Challenge. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Adam's TBR Challenge. Show all posts
Tuesday, December 19, 2023

2023 TBR Pile Wrap-Up

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  Well, this is it. The last fling for Adam's  The TBR Pile Challenge  over at Roof Beam Reader. It was one of the first challenges I d...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2023

The Covenant of the Crown

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  The Covenant of the Crown (1981) by Howard Weinstein Eighteen years ago, a young Lieutenant James T. Kirk helped King Stevvin and the roy...
Wednesday, July 5, 2023

I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay

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 I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay (2004) by Harlan Ellison based on short stories by Isaac Asimov Synopsis (from the back of the book):...
Thursday, June 29, 2023

The Distant Hours

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  The Distant Hours (2010) by Kate Morton 1992 London. Edie (Edith) Burchill's life is about to get interesting. A long-lost letter fro...
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Tuesday, May 16, 2023

Tom O'Bedlam

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  Tom O'Bedlam (1985) by Robert Silverberg It's 2103 and the world is made up of patches of blasted wastelands, full of radioactive...
Tuesday, April 25, 2023

Pride of the Peacock

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 Pride of the Peacock (1976) by Victoria Holt  Jessica Clavering always knew there was a mystery in her past. Most people might put it down...
Monday, April 10, 2023

Danger at the Drawbridge

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  Danger at the Drawbridge (1940) by Mildred A.Wirt This is the third in the Penny Parker detective series and my second attempt to get on ...
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Sunday, April 9, 2023

Fatal Enquiry

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  Fatal Enquiry (2014) by Will Thomas: Years ago in China, fighting in a war that wasn't his own, Cyrus Barker thought Sebastian Nightw...
Wednesday, March 29, 2023

The Genesis Secret

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  The Genesis Secret (2010) by Tom Knox Rob Luttrell has just recently witnessed an ugly suicide bombing in Baghdad while reporting on the ...
Sunday, March 26, 2023

Beyond (mini-review)

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 Beyond (1960) by Theodore Sturgeon A collection of short stories from science fiction's Golden Age by a man whose name I first encount...
Saturday, March 11, 2023

Sidney Chambers & the Perils of the Night

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  Sidney Chambers & the Perils of the Night (2013) by James Runcie Another round of interconnected short stories featuring Canon Sidney...
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Friday, February 24, 2023

It Walks by Night

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  It Walks by Night (1930) by John Dickson Carr Alexandre Laurent, a man who once tried to kill his ex-wife, has escaped from the asylum fo...
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Tuesday, February 7, 2023

Garden of Deadly Delights

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 Garden of Deadly Delights (1996) by Cynthia Manson (ed) Manson has put together a bouquet of nineteen deadly blossoms taken from the garde...
Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Over Sea, Under Stone

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  Over Sea, Under Stone (1965) by Susan Cooper The first book in Cooper's The Dark Is Rising fantasy series has a heavy dose of mystery...
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Tuesday, November 22, 2022

The 2023 TBR Pile Challenge

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  Here I go again...another challenge. But I have to do this one. Really. I always do Adam's  The TBR Pile Challenge  over at Roof Beam...
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Saturday, July 2, 2022

The Nine Billion Names of God

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 The Nine Billion Names of God (1967) by Arthur C. Clarke This was, as far as I can remember, my very first taste of Clarke when I began my...
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Wednesday, June 29, 2022

Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates

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  Hans Brinker or The Silver Skates (1865) by Mary Mapes Dodge Hans Brinker is a classic children's story set in Holland and focusing o...