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Richard’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Richard’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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I never knew anything about my maternal grandfather. When I eventually did find out a bit, it DID influence the plot for a book.
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Weird Ales 2: Another Round
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Kingswinford Sunset
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She's Alone
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The Cold
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Lydgate
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End of Year 2025
First time I've failed to meet my target in the reading challenge - six short, with 29 read instead of the intended 35. This is no disaster, as I've been tending to read older, longer texts this year and I intend to continue to do so: The Anatomy of Melancholy, Waverley, Roxanna, Roderick Random and The American are all on my intended list for '26. These will take time digesting. So I shall begin
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![The island 1946 [Leather Bound] by Francis Brett Young](https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1698928402l/141168002._SX50_.jpg "The island 1946 [Leather Bound] by Francis Brett Young")
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| 'Luke's the professional writer: he wrote the sequel', said a vicar I know, pointing out what sets this writer apart from the other canonized gospellers. As a sequel, it's clearly going to be a disappointment: whatever you think him to have been, or ...more | |
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| An interesting though slightly awkward time travel conundrum that catches Dick in the process of learning his craft: the sequences of physical action aren't well-paced and the pulp-ish 'love interest' sometimes cringe worthy. But you can see the Borg ...more | |
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| At eighty-eight and knowing herself to be nearing death, LeGuin produced this clear and understanding little book of verse that all who love her fiction from Rocannon's World to Lavinia will treasure. I've not come across a message from the upper lim ...more | |
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| A mystery story to stand alongside The Name of the Rose and The Hound of the Baskervilles. Brilliantly paced and characterised, with an undertone of criticism of colonial excess: plundered from India by an English psychopath, the titular stone is fat ...more | |
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| This one seems quite as good to me as did The Hawk in the Rain and Crow - Hughes at the top of his game, then. The runt lamb doomed from birth, the swallows and the swifts, the (by most people) inexpressible feeling of the change of the season, all e ...more | |
