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Uglies by Scott Westerfeld

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Tally Youngblood is an Ugly, and will be until she turns 16. That’s the age when everyone gets an exciting surgical procedure, bringing them all up to the desired Pretty standard, before going off to live in New Pretty Town and partying the rest of their lives away. With her best friend Peris already made Pretty and off partying without her, Tally is left to her own devices playing tricks on fellow Uglies and sneaking into places she shouldn’t be, until she makes a new […]

News from back then

Slouching Towards Bethlehem by Joan Didion

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I’d previously read and loved The White Album, so when I saw Slouching Toward Bethlehem come up in a kindle sale I was very quick to click. A collection of essays from the the 1960’s, as with any book of essays this was something of a mixed bag for me, and having been born 10 years after its publication (as well as being English) I must admit that unfamiliarity with some of the people, places and things being written about meant I didn’t quite get […]

Over and over and over and over…

Middlegame by Seanan McGuire

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Imaginative and insanely readable, Seanan McGuire has become one of those authors who I now pick up whenever I need a little reading pick-me-up, and she hasn’t let me down yet. In Middlegame we meet Roger and Dodger, twins created by an alchemist bent on distilling The Doctrine (essentially what makes the world go round) into human form and making him the most powerful alchemist in the world. Roger and Dodger aren’t his first set of twins on this rodeo, but they are the most […]

Fantastic start to what I’m sure will become my new obsession

A Natural History of Dragons by Marie Brennan

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An absolute delight from start to finish, as a huge fan of both the diaries of Victorian explorers and fantasy, A Natural History of Dragons felt perfectly tailored for me and I adored it so much I’ve already gone ahead and bought a bunch more of the series. Lady Trent has always been fascinated by dragons, but in her day a lady’s place is most definitely meant to be sitting prettily in a drawing room, making sure to not tax her thoughts with anything more […]

Another one on the meh pile

The Wicked Boy The Mystery of a Victorian Child Murderer by Kate Summerscale

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If I’m not in a reading slump this year, I seem to be in a reviewing slump. This one hasn’t been helped by not really having much of substance to say about it almost a month after reading it, a surprise to me given how much I enjoyed what Summerscale I’d previously read (The Suspicions of Mr Whicher). The Wicked Boy takes a look at another Victorian murder case which the newspapers were fond of writing about, in which 13 year old Robert Coombes and […]



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