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Fiction books
Douglas Adams, John Lloyd. The Deeper Meaning of Liff
Travis Baldree. Bookshops & Bonedust (e)
Guy Boothby. A Bid for Fortune (e)
Susan Cooper. The Dark Is Rising (re-read)
Susan Cooper. Over Sea, Under Stone (re-read)
Eva Dolan. Long Way Home
Robert Harris. Lustrum (e)
Patrick O'Brian. HMS Surprise
Patrick O'Brian. Master and Commander (re-read)
Patrick O'Brian. Post Captain
Mary Ann Shaffer, Annie Barrows. The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

Abandoned
Max Allan Collins. The Pearl Harbor Murders
M Ruth Myers. No Game for a Dame (e)

Picture books
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam and the Big Jump (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam and the Rocket Ride (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam at the Rocket Port (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam Is Caught (re-read)
Jack Wassermann, Selma Wassermann, George Rohrer. Moonbeam Is Lost (re-read)

Non-fiction books
Leonard Nimoy. I Am Not Spock
Eddy Webb. Watson Is Not an Idiot (e)

In progress
James W Loewen. Lies My Teacher Told Me (e)
Keri Smith. Wreck This Journal Everywhere

Abandoned
Niccolo Machiavelli, tr. George Bull. The Prince

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Andrew Cartmel, Ben Aaronovitch, Lee Sullivan. Cry Fox (e)

Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Redemption (e)
Anna Dean. A Moment of Silence (e)
Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit (e)

In progress
Jules Verne, tr. George Towle. Around the World in Eighty Days (e)

Abandoned
Bernard Cornwell. Sharpe's Sword

Non-fiction books
(none)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Naoki Urasawa, tr. John Werry. Asadora! volume 3

. At board game club this week, the main game we played was Night of the Ninja, a hidden-roles/social-deduction game where each player is a member of a ninja clan trying to take out the leaders of the opposing clan while protecting the leaders of their own clan - with the added wrinkle that because ninjas are so sneaky, nobody knows at the start who else is in the same clan or who the leaders are. ( Read more... )


. Monument Valley III had its Steam release in the past week, and I've enjoyed the first two games enough to buy it straight away, instead of waiting for a sale to roll around. ( Read more... )


. Another reaction channel I've been watching lately is Marie-Clare's World, which I started following when she was working her way through Doctor Who. Now she's watching Babylon 5, and has just reached the end of the first season. ( Read more... )


. I've been having trouble with my printer for months - something was up with the release mechanism for the black ink, so that if I printed a document in black-and-white it came out illegibly faint, but anything with colours still came out at full strength. ( Read more... )


. I've been trying out a new tea blend this week, having picked up a packet on a whim while I was grocery shopping. It's labelled as "orange and cinnamon", with the small print mentioning that the base component is rooibos (as opposed to it being an entirely non-tea herbal blend like the peppermint or the lemon-and-ginger). It's quite nice, and a warm and comforting thing that suits the cold and uncomfortable weather we've been having lately.


. There was rain for a lot of the week, which led to me not getting as much outdoor exercise as I'd have preferred and also to ongoing trouble finding a good day to do the laundry. ( But I got a good walk on Saturday ) During the afternoon I also finished the laundry, did the washing up, and dealt with some paperwork that had been hanging over me all week (and printed it out successfully). After all that, for one reason or another, I felt much brighter and more optimistic than I had for days.

Fiction books
Andrei Baltakmens. A Hangman for Ghosts (e)
Eugene Byrne. Things Unborn
Diana Wynne Jones. House of Many Ways (re-read)
Diana Wynne Jones. Howl's Moving Castle (re-read)

In progress
Helen Simonson. Major Pettigrew's Last Stand (e)
Alexander Solzhenitsyn, tr. Michael Guybon. The First Circle

Abandoned
CL Moore. Jirel of Joiry (e)

Non-fiction books
Xavier Duff. Noose: True Stories of Australians Who Died at the Gallows

In progress
Isaac Asimov. A Choice of Catastrophes

Abandoned
Raymond Lamont-Brown. John Brown: Queen Victoria's Highland Servant

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Ursula K Le Guin. Always Coming Home (e)

Fiction books
Barbara Ninde Byfield. The Man Who Made Gold (re-read)
Philip Reeve. Here Lies Arthur
Arthur Upfield. The Bachelors of Broken Hill (e)
Connie Willis. Inside Job (e)

In progress
Tim Powers. Down and Out in Purgatory: The Collected Stories of Tim Powers (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Colin Duriez. The Tolkien and Middle-Earth Handbook

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Sebastian Faulks. Devil May Care

Fiction books
Rachael Allen. Harley Quinn: Ravenous (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Lost World (re-read)
Colin Forbes. The Leader and the Damned
Jack London. The Scarlet Plague
Dan Moren. The Caledonian Gambit (e)
Evangeline Walton. The Children of Llyr
Evangeline Walton. Prince of Annwn
Evangeline Walton. The Song of Rhiannon

In progress
Hanan al-Shayk. Women of Sand and Myrrh
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Valley of Fear (e) (re-read)
Evangeline Walton. The Island of the Mighty

Non-fiction books in progress
Marc Abrahams. This Is Improbable
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
(anthology). Tremontaine: Season One (e)

Fiction books
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars (re-read)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Trader's Leap (e) (re-read)
Yoon Ha Lee. Hexarchate Stories (e)
Arthur Upfield. An Author Bites the Dust

In progress
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Hound of the Baskervilles (e) (re-read)
David Langford. He Do the Time Police in Different Voices (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
Andrew Ford. Try Whistling This: Writings on Music (e)

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Joanna Russ. The Female Man (e)

Fiction books
Lee Child. Killing Floor
Timothy Zahn. Spinneret

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)

Abandoned
(anthology) The Workers' Paradise

Non-fiction books
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Sharon Lee, Steve Miller. Ribbon Dance (e)

Fiction books
Agatha Christie. Peril at End House
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Barbara Hambly. Scandal in Babylon (e)
Katherine Locke. The Girl with the Red Balloon (e)
Mike Mignola. The Amazing Screw-On Head and Other Curious Objects

In progress
(anthology). Mists and Magic
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. The Sign of the Four (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Thom Hartmann. Screwed: The Undeclared War Against the Middle Class (e)

Fiction books
Alan Bennett. The Uncommon Reader
Gail Carriger. Soulless
Catherine Johnson. Mamma Mia!

In progress
Anne Brontë. The Tenant of Wildfell Hall (e)
Arthur Conan Doyle. A Study in Scarlet (e) (re-read)
Alexandre Dumas. The Count of Monte Cristo (e) (re-read)
Robert Louis Stevenson. Catriona (e)

Picture books
Margaret Wild, Jane Tanner. There's a Sea in My Bedroom (re-read)

Non-fiction books in progress
AC Grayling. The Good Book
Gerard Jones. Men of Tomorrow

( short, screen, and stage )
( books bought and borrowed )

Top of the to-read pile
Thomas Babington Macaulay. Lays of Ancient Rome