Saturday books

Current
Kings of the North, by Cecelia Holland
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, ed. Nnedi Okorafor
Tolstoy, by Henri Troyat
Short Trips: The History of Christmas, ed. Simon Guerrier

Last books finished
Antarès, Épisode 1, by Leo

Next books
Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany, by Neil Gaiman
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, by Paul Cartledge

Books acquired in last two weeks
Europe in the Sixteenth Century, ed. H.G. Koenigsberger & George L. Mosse
Prime Minister Corbyn: and other things that never happened, eds. Duncan Brack and Iain Dale

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Interesting Links for 08-11-2016

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Interesting Links for 04-11-2016

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Interesting Links for 03-11-2016

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October Books

Non-fiction: 1 (YTD 33)
SPQR, by Mary Beard

Fiction (non-sf): 2 (YTD 27)
Seventeen, by Booth Tarkington
Valley of the Dolls, by Jacqueline Susann

sf (non-Who): 2 (YTD 73)
Winter Song, by Colin Harvey
Songs of the Dying Earth: Stories in honour of Jack Vance, eds. George R. R. Martin and Gardner Dozois

Doctor Who, etc: 3 (YTD 36)
Short Trips: The Solar System, ed. Gary Russell
Companion Piece, by Robert Perry and Mike Tucker
The Joy Device, by Justin Richards

Comics: 0 (YTD 22)

2,500 pages (YTD 55,600 pages)
2/8 (YTD 59/191) by women (Beard, Susann)
0/8 (YTD 12/191) by PoC

Reread: 0, YTD 14

Reading now
AfroSF: Science Fiction by African Writers, by Nnedi Okorafor
Tolstoy, by Henri Troyat
Kings of the North, by Cecelia Holland

Coming soon (perhaps):
Angels & Visitations: A Miscellany, by Neil Gaiman
Alexander the Great: The Hunt for a New Past, by Paul Cartledge
De Mexicaan met twee hoofden, by Joann Sfar
Last Exit to Babylon – Volume 4: The Collected Stories of Roger Zelazny
V for Vendetta, by Alan Moore
The Star Rover, by Jack London
To Lie with Lions, by Dorothy Dunnett
The Colour Of Magic, by Terry Pratchett
Austerity Britain, 1945-1951, by David Kynaston
Lavondyss, by Robert Holdstock
Broken Homes, by Ben Aaronovitch
The Innocent Man, by John Grisham
Warriors, ed. George R. R. Martin
The Parrot's Theorem, by Denis Guedj
A Suitable Boy, by Vikram Seth
The Rapture of the Nerds, by Cory Doctorow and Charles Stross
The Habit of Loving, by Doris Lessing
Short Trips: The History of Christmas, ed. Simon Guerrier
Bullet Time, by David A. McIntee
Twilight of the Gods, by Mark Clapham

Fewer than usual. Lots of travel that did not facilitate reading.

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Interesting Links for 02-11-2016

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