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Sharpe's Siege (Sharpe, #18) | Bernard Cornwell

so-so

#tbrtarot #persononcover @CBee
#bookedintime #napoleonicwars @Cuilin @dabbe 4.25 🌟
#pop23 #basedonpopularmovie (TV show really, but running short on time to complete all my challenges, so counting it) @squirrelbrain @RaeLovesToRead @Deblovestoread @Cortg @LeeRHarry @Bluebird @AshleyHoss820 @MissHel
#192025 #1987 @Librarybelle

Definitely need to read this series in order!

dabbe On the sheet! Thanks! 🤩 1y

Cuilin Looks great 👍 1y

Librarybelle I‘ve heard good things about the series, but I‘m on the fence as to reading them. 1y

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jenniferw88 @Librarybelle, you definitely need to read in chronological order of events, not publication date. I've read it out of order, and it can be confusing! 1y

Susanita I‘ve been listening to a podcast about Napoleon, and they interviewed Bernard Cornwell! 1y

Bluebird Someday I‘ll get to this series. It‘s been on my list for awhile, but trying not to start new ones until I finish some of the many I‘m already reading 1y

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Librarybelle

The Killings at Badger's Drift: Inspector Barnaby #1 | Caroline Graham

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I love Midsomer Murders and have been dying (no pun intended) to read the book series upon which the TV show is based. It was with great delight that I found them on Audible. This first in the series introduces the reader to DCI Barnaby, who is a bit more taciturn in print than he is on the show. The overall atmosphere is a bit darker than the show, but it works perfectly well. The voice narrator is wonderful, inflecting Barnaby‘s thoughts ⬇️⬇️⬇️

Librarybelle …with the right amount of feeling and nuance. I‘m looking forward to reading the next in the series! #1987 #19822022 2y

Aims42 Totally adding this to my audio list! Thank you! 2y

Librarybelle You‘re welcome, @Aims42 ! 2y

AmandaBlaze I didn‘t know it was based on a book series. Thank you! 2y

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kwmg40

Swordspoint | Ellen Kushner

so-so

Though there were many things I did like about this book, I just couldn't relate to the characters and their motivations. It seems a good example of “fantasy of manners“, but I don't normally read much in this subgenre.

#BookSpinBingo @TheAromaofBooks
#192025 #1987 @Librarybelle

Librarybelle It has a very 1980s cover! 2y

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2y

kwmg40 @Librarybelle So true! 2y

kwmg40 @TheAromaofBooks Thanks for stopping by! 2y

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BarbaraBB

The Decagon House Murders | Yukito Ayatsuji

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A club of university students spends a week on an island off the coast of Japan where a gruesome crime has recently occurred. Soon the first among them is murdered.
The characters in the book are flat, there is no poetic line to be found, but this cult book is an example of the “shin honkaku” genre — a Japan-specific reboot of the classic whodunit. Recommended!

#19822022 #1987 #52books #InvolvesAClub #pop22 #SetInThe80s

(Pic: Havana, Cuba)

KarenUK, Megabooks, Cinfhen, Cortg, jenniferw88, Librarybelle, Laughterhp, squirrelbrain, RaeLovesToRead

Cinfhen I‘m loving your photos ♥️Hope you‘re having an amazing time xx 3y

Cathythoughts Great pic 👍🏻♥️ 3y

Librarybelle I really need to read this one! 3y

Megabooks Gorgeous photo! 3y

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Sresendez12

"A" is for Alibi | Sue Grafton

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So for the #19822022 challenge I decided to finally read the A is for Alibi series! I am absolutely loving them! I love Kinsey‘s attitude and the cases she solves. It‘s a great series so far and I‘m so glad I‘ve started finally. My library does a tailored titles every weekand when I put this series on there, they suggested One for the Money, which I‘ve loved for years, so this series is a perfect fit! #1982 #1985 #1986 #1987

Librarybelle

Librarybelle Hooray! I enjoyed A is for Alibi and need to get back to the series! 3y

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Blaire

Presumed Innocent | Scott Turow

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As a former prosecutor and lover of mystery and suspense, I cannot believe I waited so long to read this classic thriller. It was intense and intricate and a great audiobook. Turow writes court scenes very well and the book had great pacing. Sabich, a prosecutor in chicago da office, begins an investigation into a murdered colleague and all kinds of twists and turns follow. #40thbdaychallenge #1987. Will read the rest of this series.

Cathythoughts Sounds great 👍🏻stacking 5y

Leftcoastzen This book was an immediate bestseller, but it was published in Aug. 1987 . 5y

Blaire @Leftcoastzen it does look like that was the release date...when I googled 1986 books it came up (trying to read one per year). It‘s listed as a 12/31/86 original publication date. Not sure if that was an ARC. Will prob still count it for my bday challenge since there‘s only 4 days left in the year. 5y

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Leftcoastzen Probably was an ARC , I was working in bookstores back then ,don‘t want you to think I‘m a member of the release date police. 😂It was so popular , and I haven‘t read it yet! Overdue! 5y

Blaire @Leftcoastzen that makes total sense as to why you‘d remember it. Thanks for the explanation. ☺️. It was great - a total page turner. Made me take longer walks because I didn‘t want to turn off the audio. 5y

Blaire @Cathythoughts it was. I kept doing chores and walking for an excuse to listen. 5y

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Melismatic

...And a Happy New Year? | Holly Bourne

Borrowed from @strandbookstore ‘s IG! What are your #readsolutions for #2019?

I‘m gonna try for a few of these as well as a #LitsyAtoZ and a few purposeful selections from my birth year, #1987.

Cinfhen Oh man!!! Another interesting challenge...I might try a few of these prompts....thanks for sharing 6y

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DarcysMom

An American Childhood | Annie Dillard

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🌟🌟🌟🌟
#LMBPC
#GroupC
#nonfiction2018
#192019Challenge #1987

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa

Imago | Octavia E. Butler

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Yet another surprising and unexpected twist in this continually insightful, but creepy, alien story. Definitely another angle in the results of this 'trade' that I wasn't expecting to see appear, I was again expecting a continuation from book two and more about those constructs, but instead I got something different and unexpected....something that, even in this world, was completely new and unique, and even scared our too smart aliens a bit.

Gezemice Looks like a great series! 8y

tricours Everyone seems to love these books! Is there any chance of liking books 2&3 if you hated book 1? 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tricours Probably depends on why you hated book one. If it was the writing, then probably not. If it was the overwhelming creepy vibe you got, it's still there, but less as the series goes one. Book two jumps forward in time, so you get to see how all the groups have made out, and you get to see them through new eyes...the eyes of one of their mixed children. So it's seen from the POV of a character who can relate and is part of both groups.. 8y

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Riveted_Reader_Melissa ... Even with the creepy vibe, I've enjoyed the series. The same way I 'enjoyed' The Handmaid's Tale or Kindred or The Fifth Season...they all make you uncomfortable, but that's because they all explore parts of humanity we are very uncomfortable with and don't like to think about too much. If it helps, I read book one and then took a long break before trying book 2, and was pleasantly surprised by the new POV in it, everyone is on earth by.. 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa ...then, so it feels a bit more normal to us. And the humans who left the group early on are revisited, we find out more about how they are doing after they left and an acceptable (to both sides) compromise is finally reached with them. That made me feel a bit better about the story overall too, if that helps. 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice It really is, but in the creepy but excellent writing way The Handmaid's Tale is for instance. I think it'd group most of what I've read of Octavia Butler in the same realm as Margaret Atwood. Creepy, but thought provoking, and really good at making you look at the parts of humanity we really dislike looking at. If you haven't read anything by her yet, I'd start with Kindred.

Kindred

tricours I didn't find it creepy at all, I just found all the humans extremely infuriating and annoying with their sense of entitlement. But if the perspective changes, that could help a lot! 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tricours Maybe give it a try then. It joins Lilith and family years (probably decades) later. And switches to the POV of her new baby, who looks "mostly" human, but senses and understands the world much more than an average human baby would. "He" spends time with both the alien family grouping and with the human resisters group and finds things to appreciate in both groups over time. So yes, it is a very interesting new perspective. 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @tricours But yes, the purely human groups are still feeling entitled, they were here first, and still what everyone else gone. So if that really bothered you maybe skip this series and try something else of hers...maybe a standalone book like Kindred, which is really good.

Kindred

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa You had me at "Handmaid's Tale" ? 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice 👍 Definitely try Kindred then! On its surface it's sci-fi time travel, but it's an African American woman who falls back into pre-Civil War America. It's got that great creepy but poignant vibe going for it too! 8y

Gezemice @Riveted_Reader_Melissa I read Kindred last year and liked it, although it did not remind me of Atwood. The story could be, I guess, but the writing is in a different realm, which is why I did not give Kindred 5 stars. Atwood spoiled it for me, lol. (edited) 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @Gezemice True, they have different writing styles. I just meant the social commentary mixed in with a riveting story, that way the same. 8y

diovival This was the first of her books I ever read. Found it on my parents bookshelf. Didn't realize it was part of a series at the time. 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa @diovival I love those stories, those books found on our parents shelf, that you borrow and read...and loved even if they were probably more adult than you were ready for. And then to find out it's just a doorway into a larger world that, that you find out about later, and can read knowing your parents read them too. 8y

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I should have also tagged this book #192019 #1989. I'll try to make a better effort going forward to tag books as I go. This is the last book in this trilogy, and I also used the first two in this challenge Dawn as #1987 and Adulthood Rites as #1988 8y

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