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Just another GR refugee. Other than that, I had a stroke in 2004, and read almost anything I can get my hands on, though I have a particular weakness for history, mystery, and historical fiction.
Currently reading
Ice Ghosts: The Epic Hunt for the Lost Franklin Expedition
Progress:
6 %
I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
Progress:
40 %
Wizard's First Rule
Progress:
49 %
Thomas Cromwell: The Untold Story of Henry VIII's Most Faithful Servant
Progress:
14 %
Storm in a Teacup: The Physics of Everyday Life
Progress:
20 %
The Hanover Square Affair
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10 %
Medieval Tastes: Food, Cooking, and the Table (Arts and Traditions of the Table: Perspectives on Culinary History)
Progress:
10 %
Scars of Independence: America's Violent Birth
Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind
Progress:
9 %
Elizabeth: The Forgotten Years
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20/512 pages
Review: Farside
I picked this up at my local library, as it looked like it had an interesting premise.
The writing, however, is highly pedestrian, featuring klunky dialogue and exceptionally short chapters. The characterization is very flat, often limited to the character's sex potential ("the leggy inspector," etc.).
Additionally, however, its women are straight out of 1950s pulp science fiction.
No woman actually handles being date raped like it was no big deal, Mr. Bova.
I now know why some people have "Bova bans." Count me as one of them.
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