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Little late for March, but better late than never! Lot‘s of great books read in March. The Buffalo Hunter Hunter was so good! But All Our Wrong Tomorrows was my fav. It was an audiobook, and if you‘ve never heard 3+ minutes of the narrator saying “f**k,” you‘re missing out on one of the funniest chapters ever!

I‘m glad to have an A.J. Demas novel to read and a Casey to snuggle. France is great for dog watching but less great for random doggie interactions. They‘re all so well-trained they don‘t even come say hi to you when they‘re on a long leash.

I‘m sad to be back somewhere cold and brown, where most stuff was built in the 1970s or later and I‘ve gotta pay attention to my expensive food‘s country of origin again. 😔

The Dragon Republic by R. F. Kuang. Rated 8,4/10

So glad to finally be done with this. I loved Chabon‘s Summerland and this was nothing like it. I thought there may be some fantasy, but pretty purely a detective murder mystery. Some uniqueness in the setting, being in Sitka, Alaska, and a large community of chess-playing Jewish Alaskans, along with the organized crime and police detective theme. Some, but little suspense. I had to push myself to get through. It never really gripped me.

I'm really loving how Kowal's alternate history is playing out in contrast to the For All Mankind series on AppleTV - both are highlighting how we are just exporting our human conflicts into space, but Kowal focuses on race and gender while FAM is concentrating on socioeconomic class tensions between the millionaire tech bro innovators and the laborers. The implications of having babies in space also come up in both!

In the shadows of the Aberystwyth Castle, an amazing site we visited a few years ago
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Delightful, literary, timey-wimey fun.

I read this book over 10 years ago and picked it up again, and it was just as good as I remembered.

This book has left me stumped. I don‘t quite know whether it is steampunk / fantasy / eco warning or horror and I was left vaguely dissatisfied. The writing especially the descriptions of the ‘wastelands‘ was stunning and the sense of place on the train hurtling then creating through this otherworldly was great but the characters were a little two dimensional for me and following several split rather than added to a sense of what was happening!

#bookspin #doublespin picks for April

I got highest rated and another pet pick. This time I had one of the cats pick.

1. Yes!
2. Love the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde.

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