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The Exile Waiting Vonda McIntyre. Slightly odd with idiosyncratic writing in places but not bad at all. I enjoy older science fiction books. What the hell is an alice tube?
 
I finished The Post-Birthday World by Lionel Shriver today. It was not my normal read, but very good.

It's a 'sliding doors' type novel. It follows the parallel lives led by a women if she cheated on her long-term partner, with all that entails. Alternate chapters cover the same time in different lives.

I liked the way certain things, often very minor, were a constant in both lives. The perspective of each life also coloured reactions to similar events.
 
Finished two books this week.

- Wheel of Time 12, The Gathering Storm by Brandon Sanderson. Really enjoyed this. Probably the most I've enjoyed a WOT book since book 2.
- Desert Places by Blake Crouch. Probably my least favourite of his books.

On to book 4 of the Extinction Point series next by Paul Anthony Jones. I would describe these books as a cheap budget SyFy show that somehow keeps you watching (reading).
 
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Just finished the wheel of time - book 1 - Eye of the World - thoroughly enjoyed it. Started book 2 now The Great Hunt. Becoming a real fan of the series.
 
I just finished The Wind From The Sun by Arthur C Clarke, more scifi short stories.

Not bad, though I had read a few of them before. One story was just a set up for the worst pun I have ever seen!
 
Just finished book 4 of the Not Alone series of books by Craig A Falconer.

Next is James O'Brien How They Broke Britain cause I'm not angry enough.
 
Open Season by CJ Box (the first in the Joe Pickett series). It's been one of the most enjoyable books I've read this year. Lots of different pieces moving, very violent in places and I love the setting of rural Wyoming.
 
Am I allowed in here with Audiobooks 'read'? I've never really read books before in my life, but last year I started on self-improvement types as I pivoted my career and have moved on to autobiographies, war books and books about prison life, amongst other things. Recently -

The Longest Kill - Craig Harrison
Unruly - David Mitchell
A Bit of a Stretch - Chris Atkins
And Away - Bob Mortimer
Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing - Matthew Perry
 
I just finished The Postman, by David Brin.

Post-apocalyptic book, where a man revives the postal service as a step to restoring civilisation.

The first 70 pages is one of the best stories I've read this year, and should finish there- just lovely. After that, it goes into severe cliché territory and gets steadily worse.

In short, read the first 70 or so pages, then chuck it away.
 
Two culture books to go, just finished Matter.. I quite enjoyed it while I was reading it but the very end was rather sudden and made it feel like what had come before was rather superfluous.
 
I just finished Deep Cover, about a Mancunian that almost randomly joined the Police Force and became one of the top UK under cover agents.

Quite a contrast to No Comment, where you get the idea she also joined the Police rather randomly, but maybe unlike Shay Doyle (Deep Cover) she perhaps wasn't suited to it and was maybe a little bit delicate for it all?
 
I just finished Alpha 4, another scifi short story anthology edited by Robert Silverberg.

This was pretty disappointing- one excellent story ("Angel"s Egg" which I've read before), a couple of so-so stories and the rest are challenging 60s new wave scifi (which I find dreary and badly dated).

Only one of the Alpha series to go- 6- I hope it is better than this one.
 
Finished 'Genesis' by Paul Antony Jones, book 4 of his Extinction Point series. Probably my least favourite so far as it felt like a rehash of the second book. One left in the series.

Next is either going to be Dresden 6 or Wheel of Time 13.
 
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