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Book Chain, etc, Week 18
May. 3rd, 2026 07:13 am#17: A book with a lower average rating than the previous book
Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. In a world where being a practitioner of the magical Craft is sometimes remarkably like being a corporate lawyer (it's the loopholes that get you), the high-powered firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao is hired to sort out a problem for the Church of Kos the Everburning: God is dead. (Well, mostly dead.) And it looks increasingly like it might have been murder.
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#18: A book with a similar cover to the previous book
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne. Inspector Anders, on the verge of retirement, is assigned a rubber-stamp investigation of a murder that everybody knows and nobody will say was a mafia hit, and finds himself faced with a choice between keeping his head down and playing out his assigned role or making a possibly doomed stand.
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#19: A book that was added to your TBR before the previous book
Now, I don't have an exact record of when I got The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders -- but it can't have been any earlier than 1999, when it was first published, and I know I have books that have been waiting longer than that...
St Vincent de Paul by M.V. Woodgate. An account for children of the life of Vincent de Paul, 17th-century saint and philanthropist.
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#20: A book whose title has more letters than the title of the previous book
First attempt: The Dog Sitter Detective by Antony Johnston. Struggling actress Gwinny Tuffnell's best friend is falsely accused of murder and needs someone to look after her dogs and also to find the real culprit.
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Three Parts Dead by Max Gladstone. In a world where being a practitioner of the magical Craft is sometimes remarkably like being a corporate lawyer (it's the loopholes that get you), the high-powered firm of Kelethres, Albrecht, and Ao is hired to sort out a problem for the Church of Kos the Everburning: God is dead. (Well, mostly dead.) And it looks increasingly like it might have been murder.
( Read more... )
#18: A book with a similar cover to the previous book
The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders by Marshall Browne. Inspector Anders, on the verge of retirement, is assigned a rubber-stamp investigation of a murder that everybody knows and nobody will say was a mafia hit, and finds himself faced with a choice between keeping his head down and playing out his assigned role or making a possibly doomed stand.
( Read more... )
#19: A book that was added to your TBR before the previous book
Now, I don't have an exact record of when I got The Wooden Leg of Inspector Anders -- but it can't have been any earlier than 1999, when it was first published, and I know I have books that have been waiting longer than that...
St Vincent de Paul by M.V. Woodgate. An account for children of the life of Vincent de Paul, 17th-century saint and philanthropist.
( Read more... )
#20: A book whose title has more letters than the title of the previous book
First attempt: The Dog Sitter Detective by Antony Johnston. Struggling actress Gwinny Tuffnell's best friend is falsely accused of murder and needs someone to look after her dogs and also to find the real culprit.
( Read more... )
