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vivdunstan) wrote2024-10-19 08:14 am
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Books finished in 2024: mid October edition
Many more books finished since last time, so I need to do a catch up! Luckily easy for me to do, since I note the books I've read, plus a rating, in Goodreads.
I'd been slowly reading the Sisto and Marchese Middle Earth book, and finally finished. An absolutely brilliant book, for both the newcomer to Tolkien's worlds, and old timers. So much useful reference material I even bought myself a print copy after finishing the Kindle version.
I continue to adore the Insomniacs After School manga series. It probably helps that one of the lead characters looks uncannily like a schoolboy version of my husband! But it's a charming and gentle slice of life, including hefty astronomy elements. I expect to read all of this.
I learned about Intellect Books' Fan Phenomena range of books from the Glasgow Worldcon dealers' room, which I was browsing from a distance. The Lord of the Rings book is very out of print sadly. But I've got the Doctor Who one to read, and first read a bargain copy (£3) Game of Thrones one I picked up secondhand. A huge range of essays exploring different perspectives of fandom. Worked even for me who has never properly read or watched Game of Thrones.
A Darker Shade of Magic got better and better for me as I read it, after a slightly rocky start. I expect to complete the trilogy. And probably go onto the sequel trilogy that is newly starting.
The Phantasmagoria magazines/books were things I'd picked up a while back. Print on demand books from Amazon, large format, collecting a huge range of articles, art work, reflections, and fiction by and about the subjects. The MR James one was a solid 5/5 stars for me. I am keeping it.
The Girl From The Other Side manga wasn't a hit for me. Just too strange, though it got more interesting on the way through.
I'd been slowly reading the Sisto and Marchese Middle Earth book, and finally finished. An absolutely brilliant book, for both the newcomer to Tolkien's worlds, and old timers. So much useful reference material I even bought myself a print copy after finishing the Kindle version.
I continue to adore the Insomniacs After School manga series. It probably helps that one of the lead characters looks uncannily like a schoolboy version of my husband! But it's a charming and gentle slice of life, including hefty astronomy elements. I expect to read all of this.
I learned about Intellect Books' Fan Phenomena range of books from the Glasgow Worldcon dealers' room, which I was browsing from a distance. The Lord of the Rings book is very out of print sadly. But I've got the Doctor Who one to read, and first read a bargain copy (£3) Game of Thrones one I picked up secondhand. A huge range of essays exploring different perspectives of fandom. Worked even for me who has never properly read or watched Game of Thrones.
A Darker Shade of Magic got better and better for me as I read it, after a slightly rocky start. I expect to complete the trilogy. And probably go onto the sequel trilogy that is newly starting.
The Phantasmagoria magazines/books were things I'd picked up a while back. Print on demand books from Amazon, large format, collecting a huge range of articles, art work, reflections, and fiction by and about the subjects. The MR James one was a solid 5/5 stars for me. I am keeping it.
The Girl From The Other Side manga wasn't a hit for me. Just too strange, though it got more interesting on the way through.
- Wenceslas: A Christmas Poem by Carol Ann Duffy
- The Children of Hurin by JRR Tolkien
- The Incomplete Framley Examiner
- Once Upon A Tome: The Misadventures of a Rare Bookseller by Oliver Darkshire
- The Stardust Thief by Chelsea Abdullah
- The Art Thief by Michael Finkel
- What You Are Looking For Is In The Library by Michiko Aoyama
- The Ghost Cat: 12 decades, 9 lives, 1 cat by Alex Howard
- Dear NHS: 100 Stories to Say Thank You edited by Adam Kay
- Howl's Moving Castle by Diana Wynne Jones
- Delicious in Dungeon (manga) volume 1 by Ryoko Kui
- 50 Years of Text Games: From Oregon Trail to A.I. Dungeon by Aaron A. Reed
- The Book of Doors by Gareth Brown
- Murder Isn't Easy: The Forensics of Agatha Christie by Carla Valentine
- The Path of Daggers (Wheel of Time book 8) by Robert Jordan
- Grognard: Ruminations On 40 Years in Gaming by Loren Wiseman
- A Blend Of Magic by Kate Kenzie
- The Tale of Toxic Positivity: A Parody by Beatrix Pottymouth and Paul Magrs
- Puss in Books: Our best-loved writers on their best-loved cats by Paul Magrs
- Newbury & Hobbes: The Undying by George Mann and Dan Boultwood
- Macbeth (Penguin Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare
- Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
- The Novel of the Century: The Extraordinary Adventure of Les Misérables by David Bellos
- Scarlet by Genevieve Cogman
- Sigrid Rides: The Story of an Extraordinary Friendship and An Adventure on Two Wheels by Travis Nelson
- Novelist as a Vocation by Haruki Murakami
- The Knight Blooms Behind Castle Walls Vol. 1 by Masanari Yuduka
- London Tide: based on Charles Dickens' Our Mutual Friend by Ben Power
- Bridgerton: The Duke and I by Julia Quinn
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 1 by Makoto Ojiro
- The Black Bird Oracle by Deborah Harkness
- Robyn Volume One - No One Above Another (graphic novel) by Simon Birks et al
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 2 by Makoto Ojiro
- Bridgerton: The Viscount Who Loved Me by Julia Quinn
- The Fellowship of the Ring by JRR Tolkien
- Queen Macbeth by Val McDermid
- Adapting Tolkien: Proceedings of the Tolkien Society Seminar. Peter Roe Series XX edited by Will Sherwood
- Why We Love Middle-earth: An Enthusiast’s Book about Tolkien, Middle-earth & the LOTR Fandom by Alan Sisto and Shawn Marchese
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 3 by Makoto Ojiro
- Fan Phenomena: Game of Thrones edited by Kavita Mudan Finn
- A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
- Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series #3: M.R. James
- Phantasmagoria Special Edition Series #2: The Lovecraft Squad
- The Girl From the Other Side: Siúil, a Rún (manga) volume 1 by Nagabe