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I enjoy travel books, but war histories aren't really my thing. An interesting enough account of the author's roaming around from Turkey to Anzac cove and the - mostly young - other travellers he meets. A little of the insight into the 21st century 'creation of anzac pilgrimage' that I found interesting

A favourite author, and as I find them, I'm filling in my collection of his books, most of which I read many years ago in my early teens, then revisited over the years. Perhaps not quite as good as My Family and Other Animals, but the sheer enjoyment he had in his life and the wildlife in Corfu shines through

I read this over 25 years ago before traveling to Spain, then years later stumbled on a copy of a 2 volume edition in a 2nd hand shop. Been sitting on the shelf for years, decades... Holds up well, I love the way Michener describes his surrounds, even if it was from another thirty years earlier. Some things change enormously, some won't

I guess I need to re-read volume 2 now ... which I have done. Goodreads seems confused since both volumes have the same ISBN

Back into a Rebus, I haven't read any for a while and stumbled on this one somewhere. I always enjoy them, perhaps this one more because I haven't read any for a while - although I did feel I needed to keep a list of all the characters on a bit of paper for reference

I found one of Morton's other books a few years ago and found them enjoyable, modern enough in style to be readable, but far enough in the past to be very much of another era. A $2.50 op-shop find, I think I learnt more Roman and Christian history from reading this than from years at school. Surprisingly more history than travel

The entire series is an enjoyable easy read, I enjoyed them decades ago when they first came out, so when I stumbled on this one for 50c in an op-shop I couldn't resist. A quick and fun three short stories

Not really a big fan of Crichton's work, but I've been meaning to read this ever since I saw the movie decades ago. Interesting to note that I could not separate my reading of it from hearing and picturing Sam Neil, Jeff Goldblum and Richard Attenborough's characters in my head, but none of the others. A light-hearted fun read, as any box that was written as a screenplay for an action movie will be

(btw, was a different edition, but bookwyrm can't find the Arrow books copy)