When we were animals by Joshua Gaylord
In a small town in America the teenagers run wild every full moon for three days while their parents, and everyone else locks themselves inside, safe. For three nights the teenagers...
27 September 2015
The Genius of Dogs by Brian Hare, Vanessa Woods
“Brian Hare, dog researcher, evolutionary anthropologist, and founder of the Duke Canine Cognition Center, and Vanessa Woods offer revolutionary new insights into dog intelligence and the interior lives of our smartest...
19 September 2015
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
Part of my RIP reading Carolyn is a librarian. Or at least that is word her Father uses. That is the term she uses for herself. But what she does is...
13 September 2015
A man called Ove by Fredrik Backman
Ove is a man who knows what is right, and what is wrong. The rules are there for a reason, and just because every body else in society seems to have...
4 September 2015
If then by Matthew De Abaitua
After the collapse, the Seizure, when the world went to hell, a small village in England was chosen to live under the Process. A whole community run by a computer program....
30 August 2015
Hounded by Kevin Hearne
Book 1 in the Iron Druid Chronicles Atticus O’Sullivan is not what he appears to be. He is not 21 years old. He is not American. His name isn’t even Atticus,...
8 August 2015
Wisp of a Thing by Alex Bledsoe
Rob Quillan is quasi-famous. He made the finals of a reality tv show, the producers flew his girlfriend out to the filming of the final performances, but the plane crashed on...
1 May 2015
Hound : Protector by Barry Devlin, Paul Bolger
Part of my Once Upon a Time 9 reading, this fits the mythology section best. Based on the myth of Cúchulainn, the Hound of Ulster. Cúchulainn and the whole Táin/Red Branch...
3 April 2015
Child 44 by Tom Rob Smith
A Leo Demidov story. When a young boy’s body is found on the train tracks in Moscow Leo Demidov’s job is to make sure everyone knows that it wasn’t murder. After...
30 March 2015
A Slip of the Keyboard by Terry Pratchett
A week or two before Terry Pratchett died A slip of the keyboard and A blink of the screen arrived for me from amazon. I added them to the bookshelves, thinking...
21 March 2015
Child of Fire by Harry Connolly
Twenty Palaces : book 1 Ray Lilly is just out of prison and back on the job. His boss, Annalise, is just looking for an excuse to kill him. He betrayed...
4 March 2015
The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid
At a market in Lahore our narrator, Changez, meets an unidentified American and offer to assist him in finding the best tea there is. He guides him to a cafe and...
16 February 2015
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