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Just finished Artemis and really enjoyed it.
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Henrietta450 I enjoyed Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series also and found a similar series ( proper Victorian ladies/ supernatural beings) by Minda Webber. I believe the series starts with The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein, I read The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing. I also enjoy Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series in which there is a special unit of wizards attached to the London police - supernatural beings featuring the spirits of London's rivers.
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hi jelson,
I also like the Aaronovitch books so I will definitely check out the other books you mention!
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Author, Ursela K. le Guin just passed. I don’t recall anyone mentioning her writing...looks like she was a powerhouse with a pen. Anyone read her literature
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Oh no. I've read a number of her writings & have others on my personal list. I particularly want to read No Time to Spare: Thinking About What Matters. 12/2017. Has anyone read this yet? I'm so sorry to hear about her death. Thanks for posting VR.
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you ladies beat me to it — just read the sad news of Ursula le Guin’s death. She was one of my favorite authors; The Left Hand of Darkness is especially thought-provoking. Haven’t yet read No Time To Spare.. but it’s on my ”order from Amazon” list.
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So happy, my favorite Enlish professor let me know he is having a book signing in my area when his 2nd book comes out. Told him I would be there.
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Mommy - Please do share his name so we can wait with you.
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Steven Parlato, he wrote The Namesake and The Precious Dreadful. The Precious Dreadful is his new book which will be out Feb. 13th.
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Thanks Mommy. I'll look him up
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No problem. He writes mostly teen fiction.
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Well hey, along with my eclectic reading practices, I do read YA books so I'll probably enjoy.
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Henrietta405- May I also suggest Christopher Fowler's series following Bryant and May, the elderly detectives who guide London police's Peculiar Crimes Unit. The unit is always about to be disbanded because of their unconventional methods, you can start at the beginning of the series because there is character development, but not as much as in some series. As with Aaronovitch - much love of London and its history.
Also, though different, I highly recommend James Hamilton Paterson's series following Gerry Semper a biographer of awful sports and rock stars, who lives in Tuscany and has peculiar ideas about cooking and opera Very funny = Cooking with Fernet Branca, Amazing Disgrace and Rancid Pansies (anagram for Princess Diane)
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thanks for the recommendations, jelson!
I am a LeGuin fan. I love all the Wizard of Earthsea books.
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I'm sure you will, Minus.
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Henrietta 405- I read Le Guin long ago and must get back to her and read more. I recently finished Robin Hobb's FitzChivalry Farseer series which encompasses 14 books in all. I guess it is considered fantasy because dragons show up, there are separate series but they all take place in the same imaginary world and people eventually intersect - which makes it fun keeping track of them all. Really enjoyed it. Also Charles Stross - contemporary British supernatural crime unit - averting global/galaxy disasters. I think the series is called The Laundry Files. and of course anything by Jasper Fforde! and Daniel O'Malley's two books so far: The Rook and Stiletto
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Ha! I’m currently reading Hobb’s Assassin’s Apprentice. I’m enjoying it. I didn’t realize there were 14 books total. That will keep me busy! I also like Jasper Fforde. If you haven’t read them, you might also like the Mercy Thompson series by Patricia Briggs. Mercy is a shape shifting mechanic in Washington state and there are werewolves and vampires.
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I just finished The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley. It was a page turner. I was amazed to learn that it was this author's first book. Like the time present main character, she is a mechanical engineer and took a year off to write this book. The setting is an elegant old bank in Cleveland that closed 20 years ago under suspicious circumstances. There are two narratives, one in 1978 and the other time present in 1998. The book won an Amazon readers award and got a great review in Publishers Weekly.
Now I'm reading The Buried Book by the same author and it is engrossing, too. The narrator is a 9 year boy.
Both of these books are among the freebies I downloaded on Amazon as a Prime member.
My library has some Ann Cleeves novels but no e-books. So I may have to put down my Kindle to read her! I'm spoiled with turning pages by touching the righthand margin.
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Henrietta405 Thank you, I will certainly check out Patricia Briggs, I had never heard of her ! Robin Hobbs has 5 interconnected series (and some others which I don't think are connected). You are reading the first of the Farseer, the next closely connected series is Tawny Man and then the Fitz and the Fool trilogy. These follow the life of FitzChivalry Farseer. Before you read the Fitz and the Fool series, you need to fit in the Live Ship series and then the Rainwild series. Most important advice - read the Fitz and the Fool series last. The whole experience was truly awesome! Also recommend Christopher Moore and Mur Lafferty!!
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I just finished The Power. It was good but kind of dark and not much of a plot.
Next on my list is Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler - one of my favorite authors. Has anyone read this one
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I just finished A Gentleman In Moscow, which was recommended here. I couldn't put it down! A wonderful book!
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grandma, I love Anne Tyler, too. Just borrowed the e-book of Vinegar Girl from my library. Thanks for the suggestion!
MJ
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I haven't read Anne Tyler for a long time. Did she write a book about an armchair traveler? I'll have to look her up, especially is she's available in kindle form.
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Anne Tyler just gets better as I get older. Maybe you're thinking of the Accidental Tourist? I haven't read that one in many years.
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Reading Vinegar Girl now.
MJ
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Intriguing title. Vinegar Girl. I'll look for it. Yes, Accidental Tourist is the novel I was trying to remember. I read it many years ago and other fiction by Tyler, too. I had forgotten about her.
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Hello! I recently finished Alice Munro’s short story collection, “Dear Life,” which was really great. I’m now enjoying the collected stories of Jean Stafford, which is wonderful, though I’m constantly reaching for the dictionary!
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Finished the last 100 pages of Code Girls Friday night, as due back Sat. Good book and loved the old pix.
Now have Karen Memory (2015) by Elizabeth Bear. Rec by my librarian friend who called it steampunk, a new genre for me.
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Badger - had to look it up. One source said 'retro-futuristic'. Below is what urban dictionary said. Let us know what you think.
Steampunk is a subgenre of speculative fiction, usually set in an anachronistic Victorian or quasi-Victorian alternate history setting. It could be described by the slogan "What the past would look like if the future had happened sooner." It includes fiction with science fiction, fantasy or horror themes.
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Finally finished the two books that I was reading by Jane Austen. On to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Oper
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