Av Demeisen
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I started A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine this afternoon.
I've been dithering about that book.I started A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine this afternoon.
Westy did a review at SFF World a month ago. All I can say for now is, so far so good. It seems to be my kind of book.I've been dithering about that book.
Every week I stroll into my local bookstore and, for a few weeks, it's been calling out to me from the 'latest' display shelf.
A bit pricey just yet so I may leave it for now (unless you do a review and said review gets my buying tic started)
I'm alternating this and catch 22 and it can be slow, but I'm really enjoying it. Nobody really writes them like this anymore.Going to attempt The Dragonbone Chair by Tad Williams. I heard it is slow especially the first 200 or so pages but the writing so far is nice and fluid.
Found it, cheers, I must have missed it when I was in there, it looks really tempting now (meaning I'll prob have it by next weekend)Westy did a review at SFF World a month ago. All I can say for now is, so far so good. It seems to be my kind of book.
Also read Last First Snow by Max Gladstone. First book of his I didn't like; possibly because I had the wrong expectations. But it just felt a little flat.
I found the first one was quite well paced. The second was perhaps a little slower but nonetheless highly readable, as there was still plenty of movement and action. The third (which I'm reading, also, like you, alongside other books) starts really quite slowly. The first 200 pages do drag a little. Its picking up nicely now though (300 in) and I'm now "in Osten Ard". There are some great scenes and action even in the slower early chapters - its not unremitting. I enjoy it too. I think I find book series a little challenging these days though. I'm probably more of a standalone book kinda guy I think.I'm alternating this [Dragonbone Chair] and catch 22 and it can be slow, but I'm really enjoying it. Nobody really writes them like this anymore.
did you saw the series catch22?I'm alternating this and catch 22 and it can be slow, but I'm really enjoying it. Nobody really writes them like this anymore.
Not yet. I've long cited it as my favorite novel but it's been at least a decade since I last read it so I decided to pick it up again before watching the series.did you saw the series catch22?
i think that story is the one that makes me remember that the first know serial killers where caught by a culinary critic loloI'm reading The Sign of Four, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. A great story with dark undertones and plenty of intrigue.
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