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adrienne maree brown: We Will Not Cancel Us (2020)
Namwali Serpell: The Old Drift (Paperback, 2020, Hogarth)
Rupert Owen: The Black Book of Gyffe (The Fribbling Squit) (2020, Rupert Owen)

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Ali Smith, Ali Smith: Hotel World (2002, Anchor Books)
Jennifer Egan: A Visit from the Goon Squad (EBook, 2010, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
Tana French: Faithful Place (Hardcover, 2010, Viking)

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started reading The Dragon's Path by Daniel Abraham

Daniel Abraham: The Dragon's Path (2011, Orbit)

Suffering a bit from SFNS (Silly Fantasy Name Syndrome) but it's Daniel Abraham, who co-wrote The Expanse, so the prose and pacing thus far more than makes up for the glossary's worth of hard to take seriously place and character names to remember. Getting a bit of Malazan vibe so far, which can only be a good thing.

started reading Gate of Ivory by Robert Holdstock

Robert Holdstock: Gate of Ivory (Hardcover, 1998, Harper Collins)

I've decided to start a re-read of Holdstock's Mythago cycle in the story order as opposed to the published order... It's an interesting experience thus far as I've not re-read them since they were published (with the exception of Mythago Wood & Lavondyss) - and I've not read the final novel Avilion at all - I was too upset at Robert dying so unexpectedly and young.

reviewed Looking Good Dead by Peter james

Peter james: Looking Good Dead (Paperback, Macmillan)

Does What it Says on the Tin

Reading this was for me much like watching an episode of 70s UK TV like The Sweeny or The Professionals - slightly iffy but enjoyable enough mid- to low-brow entertainment to pass an evening, but nothing more than that. The quality of the prose was quite poor in many places, so I dropped a star from what would otherwise have been a down the middle three star average read.

commented on Looking Good Dead by Peter james

Peter james: Looking Good Dead (Paperback, Macmillan)

Well, I'm starting to warm to this somewhat now. The quality of prose is still pretty iffy, but its starting to feel a somewhat better standard of dodgy - The Sweeny if it was made in the early 2000s.