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Our reads in July 2025
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dustydigger
Posted 2025-06-30 6:29 PM (#32961)
Subject: Our reads in July 2025



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Location: UK		Here we go again,trying to stabilise that tottering TBR mountain. What are your plans this month?.
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Posted 2025-07-06 6:17 PM (#32974 - in reply to #32961)
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dustydigger - 2025-06-30 6:29 PM Here we go again,trying to stabilise that tottering TBR mountain. What are your plans this month?.

I'm looking to finish the Dungeon Crawler Carl series for my ROTFL and Number of the Counting challenges. After that I'm not sure. I've got a bunch of Avalon Books from the 60's that I've been collecting that I want to dip into so maybe one of those. Although, having said that, I'm much more likely to go for another audio book. I seem to get more audio reading done these days.

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Posted 2025-07-31 4:40 PM (#33030 - in reply to #32961)
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Location: UK		I managed a few reads this month,often during the night
Took quite a while to get through Arkady Martine's A Desolation Called Peace.Dense complicated,often a bit too obscure but interesting. Its been a couple of years since I read A Memory Called Empireand really I should have reread it since the settings are so complex,and the names need attention . I kept having to go to the glossary to sort out who was who :0)
But all in all I think I enjoyed this second outing in the iTeixcalaan universe more than the first. Certainly gives the brain a work out. I would have rated it a little higher but some of the prose was a bit too clunky and awkward,diverting my attention when I needed all my faculties to grasp what was happening lol.
Print was dense and rather small too didnt help either. It was a major reason why the book has lingered for almost 2 years on my shelf unread.
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Posted 2025-07-31 5:10 PM (#33031 - in reply to #32961)
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Location: UK		Rest of the time I was comfort reading an old Anne McCaffrey series,The Tower and the Hive, and a Mercy Thompson novel.Winter Lost.It seemed a bit different from earlier books in the series,very complicated plot with a large cast. A bit darker than the rest of the series.
Hadnt realized till part way through I had missed a book in the series,so now I have obtained it and there are a host of spoilers for Soul Takenwhich will be annoying.Oh well,I'll read it next month and get up to date with this series,a favourite of mine.
After the heavy Desolation Called Peace my brain needed a rest. Also the world news is so depressing and awful I needed something light and fun,. Was delighted to find my public library has added the whole of Simon R Green's Ishmael Jones series in ebooks,so I have had a great couple of days reading The Dark Side of the Road, And Then There Were None sort of book but with an alien who crash landed on earth in 1963 and works for a super secret security agency instead of Hercule Poirot and a vampire as the murderer. Any one else a Simon R Clark fan? Just pure fun.Think I'll read a couple more next month
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