Ah, January. The start of a new year and the month I become another year older.
And the time we start new books at the same time we re-read old ones because it’s January and there’s no money to buy books because you spent it all on Christmas presents.
Age of Death
Michael J. Sullivan
Legends of the First Empire #5
Riyria Enterprises
420 pages (Ebook)
5/5
And it’s that time again, where Jennifer fangirls massively over an awesome book.
Sit back and enjoy.
Also, it’s my birthday today. Happy Birthday to me.
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Dune
Frank Herbert
Hodder & Stoughton
529 pages (minus appendices)
2/5
There are two reasons why I finish reading a book I hate. I either want to say a massive fuck you to it, as in the case of Atlas Shrugged which annoyed me so much I had to finish it out of spite for the book, or I want to be able to say exactly why I didn’t like it without people telling me my opinion doesn’t count because I didn’t see it through to the end. This is the case with Dune.
Ship of Magic
Robin Hobb
The Liveship Traders #1
Harper Voyager
880 pages
4/5
I was never a big a fan of the Liveship Traders as I was of any of the Fitz-centred books. They just never grabbed my heart as much and there were just too many characters that I just didn’t care about.
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
J. K. Rowling
Harry Potter #1
Bloomsbury
223 pages
3/5
I haven’t read a Harry Potter book in well over a decade. I read the final book in 2007 and just didn’t feel the need to pick them up again.
Now I have decided to re-read them all.
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Caliban’s War
James S. A. Corey
The Expanse #2
Orbit
595 pages
4.5/5
Wow. This was an excellent read.
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The Last Wish
Andrzej Sapowski
The Witcher #0.5
Gollancz
4/5
It’s been four and a half years since I first read The Last Wish. I didn’t realise it was that long ago until I had a look on Goodreads. Where has the time gone?
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The Thousand Names
Django Wexler
The Shadow Campaigns #1
Del Rey
513 pages
4/5
I’ve been intending to read The Thousand Names for a while now, ever since The Powder Mage series introduced me to the amazingness of flintlock fantasy but, as usual, it has taken me two years to get around to it.
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The Tattooist of Auschwitz
Heather Morris
Zaffre
288 pages
The Tattooist of Auschwitz is a very hard book to rate. The story itself is fine, I had no problems with it but there are much larger issues with the book which are impossible to ignore.
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I tried to think of challenges I could do this year to keep my reading fresh but nothing really appealed to me so I decided to do just one this year and it will be a challenge.
I am going to read this book:
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