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dustydigger
Posted 2019-06-30 12:37 PM (#21067 - in reply to #20838)
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Location: UK		Well,the site seems to be steady at last.Not sure if we will ever get our missing posts back.and cant quite remember exactly which books I posted on here,or how mainy books should be added. I think my total for the challenge so far should be at least 25. I think its all a bit of a mess this year and I will just add books without really trying to do the challenge properly. We'll try again next year! Hopefully in the new updated version of the site.
So,I think I should just leave the early months mess behind and chart May and June.

May Reads. Not very many,because I was away on holiday in the USA for almost 2 weeks.
Andre Norton - Star Hunter. One of Andre Norton's excellent coming of age stories which she does so well. Her heroes ae always brave honourable and vulnerable. I am often very surprised at the hard situations,often very violent and dangerous,that she puts the young protagonists through. You can always be assured of an enjoyable fast paced adventure with Norton
Anne McCaffrey/Elizabeth Scarborough - Maelstrom.One of many collaborative, rather young adult styled ,rather bland books that just blur in my mind. Perfect holiday read though,on plane flights and sitting around in airports. Mildly enjoyable and forgetable,just whats needed.
Leigh Evans - the Dangers of Destiny. The wrap up novel of an urban fantasy series,pleasant,amiable and readable enough,a tangled tale of witches,fae,weres and the like.OK read,but the first two of the series were much better than the last
James S A Corey - Leviathan Wakes. HmmI just felt a little underwhelmed by this Hugo nominated book,first in the Expanse series set in a future where the solar system has ben colonised,and dierent political systems and factions have developed.Now something very alien and terrifyingly dangerous to mankind is being developed and misused by powerful politicians,with terrible loss of life. OK read,though too long,but I do long for the old impossibly optimistic Star Trek days when humans across the galaxy got on with it each other for the most part,and humans could take the moral high ground. All books these days seem to be about flwed people with often unreliable narrators and shady morals. Supposedly this is more intersting,grittier and more real than the old fashioned sort of heroes,but already it has all become so cliched and its lost its impact..I am an old dinosaurbut for the most part. I want to be able to identify with the heroes of stories and it can be quite difficult these day! lol .
I paid the ridiculous sum of 59 pence for the complete short stories of H P Lovecraft on my kindle. I've read a lot of HPLs stuff,so on holiday I just reread fave tales and filled in gaps of stories I had missed in the past. too, I was staying in a house on top of a hill in the Virginian forests outside of Roanoke(remember CROATOAN?)a mile from the road,1/4 mile from the nearest neighbour,no street lights,only forest all around.Very appropriate for reading these old weird tales. Wonderful stuff. I continued on with reding HPL all through June,and half reluctantly put him aside for a while,but doubtless I'll be revisting his eerie world again in October for Halloween .

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