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Pam B's 2018 TBR Self Challenge

I've heard good things about that as well. Interesting to read your thoughts. The things you have put as negatives would annoy me as well so I think I'll give that one a miss for now




book 4 in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series, The Grey King - review - /review/show/1398214675.
John Gordon's Skinners - reviewed: /review/show/2286677865.
Daphne DuMaurier's The King's General - review: /review/show/2286690965.

the first historical, set in Cromwell's Commonwealth by S G MacLean - The Seeker - review - /review/show/2286720286.
and Val McDermid's - Fever of the Bone - review - /review/show/2293439001.






The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg - /review/show/2318899866.
The Best of C.L. Moore - /review/show/2334266276.
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons - /review/show/2334278660.


A re-read of Gene Wolfe's The Fifth Head of Cerberus which I reviewed - /review/show/1414020222.
Then read a self published book which I really enjoyed but can't add it to GR as it has no ISBN.
Then a "biography" which I wasn't keen on - 1963: A Slice of Bread and Jam: One boy’s year of adventure, crippling poverty, abuse and an encounter with The Moors Murderers by Tommy Rhattigan and reviewed it - /review/show/2352912628.
Then read a very enjoyable humour-horror read for Star Trek fans by Kevin Anderson - Night of the Living Trekkies - reviewed here - /review/show/2338197844.
Then a John Gordon novel, The Ghosts Of Blacklode and reviewed it - /review/show/2358173551.
And a Cabbalistic and futuristic fantasy by Liz Williams, The Poison Master, reviewed - /review/show/2358348975.



Also read: Fox's Earth by Anne Rivers Siddons, and reviewed it - /review/show/2370498624.


The House on Nazareth Hill by Ramsey Campbell, reviewed - /review/show/2376656367
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard, reviewed - /review/show/2376683257











Memory by Margaret Mahy, review - /review/show/2437971448
The Exile Waiting by Vonda McIntyre, review - /review/show/2437987231.

Then did a retrospective review of volume 1 of a Louise Cooper YA trilogy, as I've just read volume 2 - Daughter Of Storms and reviewed it - /review/show/2441623871.


Pam wrote: "Re-read book 1 of Mary Renault's two book series based on the myth of Theseus - The King Must Die: A Novel - and reviewed it - /review/show...."
Good to see you liked this Pam - I bought a copy and hope to read it soon!
Good to see you liked this Pam - I bought a copy and hope to read it soon!
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Didn't do so well on 2017 as by end November I was 31 books behind. I don't know why I managed 150 in 2016 when doing the GR challenge to read 100. Thought I would easily do it again but I think having to re-read my own novel several times as part of the editing process impacted my other reading
Here's the first of 2018 - The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. Reading what others have said, I seem to be in a minority in being underwhelmed by this book - /review/show/2241030811.