I like to read: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Tech (fiction and non), Thriller, Drama, Human Rights and Issues
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In December, 1999, a multinational team journeys out to the stars, to the most awesome …
My mother recommended this before we saw the movie, but I can't remember if, like most books made into movies, I preferred the book over the movie. I only know that I enjoyed it.
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Why do only a few people get to say “I love my job?”
It seems …
Other books have my eye for now
Ishmael is a 1992 philosophical novel by Daniel Quinn. The novel examines the hidden cultural biases driving modern civilization and …
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; a summons to meet the …
The Old Curiosity Shop is one of two novels (the other being Barnaby Rudge) which …
One of two to read after Great Expectations
As the interminable case of Jarndyce and Jarndyce grinds its way through the Court of …
Next in my must-read Dickens list.
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; …
My first willful Dickens reading. Very much enjoyed myself once I learned to detect his sense of humor. His well-applied hooks into human longing tugged most expertly, though at times predictably, and that is no disparagement.
A terrifying encounter with an escaped convict in a graveyard on the wild Kent marshes; …
Knocking a few classics off my list this week
Cloak of Deception is a 2001 novel set in the Star Wars galaxy. It is a prequel novel occurring before …
A long time ago in a galaxy far, far away, an evil legacy long believed dead is stirring. Even the …
After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille the aging Dr Manette is …
In my stack of books to read
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a single …
Looks good!
