Mike started reading Loch of the Dead by Oscar de Muriel
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Recovering academic based in Scotland. Enjoys crime fiction, period classics and adventure.
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Mike started reading The secret garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett (Illustrated children's library)
Ten-year-old Mary comes to live in a lonely house on the Yorkshire moors and discovers …
Not read this since I was a kid.
Mike finished reading Mort: The Play by Terry Pratchett
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
What fun! I wasn't sure where it was going, but thoroughly enjoyed the journey.
Mike started reading Mort: The Play by Terry Pratchett
Death takes on an apprentice who's an individual thinker.
Back to my eeb!
Mike finished reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a …
Sanderson has a very routine writing style. Pages and pages of characters completing the same mundane tasks, but it's awesome. How does he do it? I don't know.
Mike started reading Yumi and the Nightmare Painter
Yumi comes from a land of gardens, meditation, and spirits, while Painter lives in a …
Thanks Santa!
Mike finished reading One Man And His Bike by Mike Carter
A long haul, I'm not very good with paper books! Very enjoyable, increasingly so.
Mike finished reading Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
A wee Christmas cracker! Which is probably what the next one will be called. Keeps you guessing until the end.
Mike started reading Christmas Jigsaw Murders by Alexandra Benedict
I read the train one last year. Looking forward to this one!
Mike finished reading The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1) by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, …
Nice to read a different side to Christie. Felt a bit plodding at times though, possibly I'm to old for it!
Mike commented on The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1) by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, …
I keep reading the characters as Terence and Philip... In fairness, they come across like that too.
Mike started reading The Secret Adversary (Tommy and Tuppence #1) by Agatha Christie
The Secret Adversary is the second published detective fiction novel by British writer Agatha Christie, …
Grabbed it from Gutenberg ages ago, past time I read it!
Mike finished reading The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1) by Agatha Christie
The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer …
A fun thriller! Hard to believe it predates The Big Four by 3 years, it's considerably better and hard to fathom how the later book is by the same author.
Mike started reading The Man in the Brown Suit (Colonel Race #1) by Agatha Christie
The Man in the Brown Suit is a work of detective fiction by British writer …
Some light relief after a couple of heavy hitters!
Mike finished reading The Long Walk by Stephen King
In the near future, where America has become a police state, one hundred boys are …
I suspect this will be the book I remember most from 2024. Absolutely incredible.