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Category: reading
Intense military
Ten Sigma by Andrew Wang is a bit of a strange creature. Science fiction, military, thriller, psychodrama. Something to satisfy every fan, I guess. Science fiction, in that it deals with a future world, an extension of our own, where war, division,…
Steam of Consciousness
My current read is Ten Sigma by A W Wang, another new author with only one published book. I haven't finished it yet, but I'm enjoying the journey. A review to follow in due course. The premise of what I've…
Call me Goat
Just kidding. There's nothing about animals in this book. It's all about torture, as the reader realises they have spent ten bucks on something that is at least over mercifully quick. A bit like a boyfriend I used to have,…
Not without charm
Every now and then a novel comes along, written as a series of letters. 84 Charing Cross Road is one, The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society another. (Both books this reader heartily recommends. I have visited both places,…
The new Gabriel
For a while, it seemed as if the end of the Cold War had killed off an entire genre of literature.When the Berlin Wall fell - not that I cared at the time, being in kindergarten, with my reading mostly…
The light of other days
Yesterday I attended my monthly photo club meeting. Our leader is a lovely man in his eighties, fortunate enough in life to have had two spouses, one of each variety, and he has been a photographer since 1960 or so.He…
Page turners
What makes a story good? I see this question asked by many people, of many people. An author is perhaps the worst person to ask for an answer. If they are any good, they aren't working to a formula. They…
OK never
A Twitter friend of mine - a very talented writer by the name of Jacinta Horgan - put me on to a book called The Exact Opposite of Okay by Laura Steven. This Young Adult novel is as powerful and…
For all love
There are writers, and there is Patrick O'Brian. In the wake of C S Forester and his popular Hornblower series of Napoleonic naval fiction, there were several who explored this area. Battles against the French, the weather, the times, and…
Blonde and Brilliant 