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Here's my final post of these for 2024. I intend to continue into 2025, though obviously resetting the count. I will also be posting my end of year full reading blog later this week, so probably into the start of 2025.
In this latest batch of newly finished books there were 3 rereads (the Sherlock Holmes, Discovery of Witches book 2, and The Dark is Rising). All great as always. The Wood at Midwinter and Booker-winner Orbital were reads for my book club. Both flawed, though I preferred the latter. Always Never was a graphic novel with gorgeous art but a somewhat troubling plot. The Alice in Wonderland gamebook was fun. And I'd never read the Tolkien Letters from Father Christmas book before, and loved it.
In this latest batch of newly finished books there were 3 rereads (the Sherlock Holmes, Discovery of Witches book 2, and The Dark is Rising). All great as always. The Wood at Midwinter and Booker-winner Orbital were reads for my book club. Both flawed, though I preferred the latter. Always Never was a graphic novel with gorgeous art but a somewhat troubling plot. The Alice in Wonderland gamebook was fun. And I'd never read the Tolkien Letters from Father Christmas book before, and loved it.
- 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
- Steeple Chasing: Around Britain by Church by Peter Ross
- A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
- Clanlands: Whisky, Warfare, and a Scottish Adventure Like No Other by Sam Heughan and Graham McTavish
- Things I Learned from Mario's Butt by Laura Kate Dale
- Insomniacs After School (manga) volume 4 by Makoto Ojiro
- Bookshops & Bonedust by Travis Baldree
- The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
- Always Never by Jordi Lafebre (graphic novel)
- Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness
- The Wood at Midwinter by Susanna Clarke
- Alice's Nightmare in Wonderland by Jonathan Green (gamebook)
- Orbital by Samantha Harvey
- Letters from Father Christmas by JRR Tolkien
- The Dark is Rising by Susan Cooper