Aug. 21st, 2019

liv: Bookshelf labelled: Caution. Hungry bookworm (bookies)
Recently read:
  • The Storm Keeper's island by Catherine Doyle. (c) Catherine Doyle 2018; Pub 2018 Bloomsbury Children's Books; ISBN 978-1-68119-959-7. A delightful and original children's fantasy.
  • So lucky by Nicola Griffith. (c) Nicola Griffith 2018; Pub 2018 Handheld Press Ltd; ISBN 978-1-912766-01-7. A powerful novella about acquired disability, that ends somewhat abruptly.

    The Storm Keeper's island )

    So lucky )

    Currently reading: Declare by Tim Powers. I'm enjoying this a lot, it's kind of Le Carré with Powers' signature Egyptian flavoured occult worldbuilding. It's also very long and quite complicated, in the way spy novels tend to be.

    Up next: Aru Shah and the song of death, by Roshani Chokshi, the sequel to Aru Shah and the end of time which I loved loved loved, is finally out, so I'm quite possibly going to jump on that. But it'll take me a while to get through Declare.
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