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Reading notes, week 11

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Alfred’s gedragboekje by Tine van Berken. “Alfred’s Little Behavior Book”. Pff. Boy runs away because he’s in trouble at school, gets into more trouble (cold, hungry, sells his coat for food, comes home with tail between his legs) and has then suddenly become a model student. 1913. Hasn’t aged well. Joop ter Heul’s problemen, Joop

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Reading notes, week 10

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Seven Sisters by Celia Lake. Seventh and last of Mysterious Charm. So much mythology! Such wonderful deception! Such a cute lesbian couple! Best of the lot, and now I also want to read Lake’s other series (starting with Pastiche, for which there is a teaser at the back of this book; I’ve become interested in

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Reading notes, week 9

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On the Bias by Celia Lake, #6 of Mysterious Charm. It seemed to be an even slower read than the previous time but that was no problem, stay with the book longer! I’d forgotten most of the intrigue though I still remembered the slow-burn romance. There was also a more explicit not-quite-a-sex-scene that I’d forgotten.

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Reading notes, week 8

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My Enemy, My Ally by Diane Duane. I was looking for a specific scene that I realised when about 10% in is in a different Star Trek novel by Diane Duane, but I was already hooked by that time and continued. I like those Rihannsu! (Well, not all the Rihannsu obviously but Ael, Khiy, Eriufv,

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Reading notes, week 7

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Goblin Fruit by Celia Lake. Mysterious Charm #2. Reread, aged well. Same objection to the sex scene as in the next two, the scene itself is unobjectionable but whyyyy? Magician’s Hoard and Wards of the Roses by Celia Lake. Mysterious Charm #3 and #4. Taking these together because I read them in one day (in

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Reading notes, week 6

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Starfleet Academy by Diane Carey and Bill Maxwell. Meh. Almost DNF’ed it but around halfway I came to care enough about some of the characters that I wanted to know what happened. The military academy setting seems so plausible that I think perhaps at least one of the authors went there themself, or at least

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Reading notes, week 5

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Unexplored Territory by Celia Lake. Novelette set during On the Bias and I think I’ll have to read that again (also Goblin Fruit, which is next up on my TBR list anyway) to know who exactly those people are and why they do what they’re doing. But the magic and the social machinations are interesting

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Reading notes, week 4

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Eye Spy by Mercedes Lackey. #2 of Family Spies. I love the kickass ace engineer protagonist! I like the clueless-but-good masters she goes on a journey with! I like the down-to-earth woman mercenary captain! But the real-world politics references are a bit much, Dudley Remp (almost typed my own last name which is only one

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Reading notes, week 3

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Closer to the Heart by Mercedes Lackey., #2 of The Herald Spy. Much marriage! Much wonderful undercovering! Actually okay mine owners (and does the nice mine owner’s very nice son actually have a chance with the smart handmaiden?) Perhaps a bit too much sportsball but at least it’s functional, and the intelligent boy gets a

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Reading notes, week 2

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Redoubt by Mercedes Lackey. Yes, this seems to be a full series reread, right up to the end of Family Spies. Virtual TBR pile is getting higher but that makes it all the more delicious to look forward to. This is the one of which I said, in August 2022, that there was FAR TOO

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