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Our reads in January 2026.
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dustydigger
Posted 2025-12-31 1:18 PM (#33677)
Subject: Our reads in January 2026.



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Dusty's TBR for January2026

Robert Jackson Bennett - A Drop of Corruption
Jim Butcher - Twelve Months
Ben Aaronovitch - Masquerades of Spring
Ben Aaronovitch - Rivers of London
Daniel Galouye - Dark Universe
Richie Tankersley - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

a short list since I have crime and fantasy reads for other challenges.
Been a long wait for a full length Harry Dresden novel. Preordered it but good job my family heaped amazon vouchers galore on me because the price was horrendous.

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daxxh
Posted 2025-12-31 10:05 PM (#33678 - in reply to #33677)
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There Is No Antimemetics Division - qntm.
In a Glass Darkly - Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
The Widowmaker Unleashed - Mike Resnick
The Shattering Peace - John Scalzi

Also have a couple of nonfiction books - Murderland and Brothers of the Gun: Wyatt Earp, Doc Holliday and a Reckoning In Tombstone.
Happy New Year!


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dustydigger
Posted 2026-01-07 8:50 AM (#33726 - in reply to #33678)
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Location: UK		Hey daxxh,seems my Pick N Mix challenge has expired I did ask for it to renewed then unfortunately wasnt around to check up. Oh well,I'll happily list my reads on your Books Read in 2026 listing and we'll carry on as normal.
I am reading some vintage crime at the moment mostly but am really enjoying Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption,finding it fascinating but quite dense . I get involved then look up expecting to have read 20 or 30 pages and its only 10.lol.So I'm still only half way through it. Glad though,its good to be engrossed in something
and find you still have 200 pages of pleasure left.
Will enjoy the rest of it and then at last on 14th Jim Butcher FINALLY gives us the next installment of our Harry's gruelling life,Twelve Months. Five years waiting Jim. Cruel and unusual punishment.
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daxxh
Posted 2026-01-07 5:40 PM (#33728 - in reply to #33726)
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Location: Great Lakes, USA		Hey Dusty
Did you try to put the Pick N Mix Challenge in again? If that doesn't work, I can put it in for you. I need your challenge for the books that don't fit in other challenges!
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dustydigger
Posted 2026-01-31 1:51 PM (#34516 - in reply to #33677)
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Location: UK		Hi daxxh yes got it sorted in the end.
January reading has been interesting while not looking very prolific. I did read a few vintage crime noveks and a couple of kindle unlimited light fluff tales,relaxing ,nontaxing plain fun,but not on WWEnd so they dont count here
We all needed light nontaxing reading in light of the mad events in the world. The usual one major crisis a week soon became one a day and then unbelievably 2 or 3 crises a day.
Have spent far too many stressed hours online goggling at the latest craziness instead of doing productive reading.
Now the January from ell is over we can only pray for things to calm down a little.
Hmmm not lookin very likely lol
So my relevant reads in January.
I enjoyed Robert Jackson Bennett's A Drop of Corruption very much,possibly even more than the first in series The Tainted Cup. An adequate enough mystery and nteresting characters but for me it was the superior world building that was most stunning. One of the freshest world settings I've read in a long time.
The rest of the month was made up of a novel and 2 novellas from Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series.
- Stone & Sky. Peter Grant got away from London for once. in this latest adventure It was meant toe be a holiday for his family,parents friends nd cousins up in the Granite City of Aberdeen but it soon included merpeople,selkies a wyvern,a giant vicious carnivorous bird and even dodgy oilmen up to no good on an oil platform. Good fun all round
- The Masquerades of Spring. In his novellas in the Rivers of London series Aaronovitch often likes to tell the tale through the voice of side characters in the main series. Peter Grant becomes a bit peripheral and often fun facets of his life and character are illuminated. But this episode follows his boss and mentor Thomas Nightingale in the 1920s in New York! Good fun
- The October Man. For a change we see the German magic practitioners who are counterparts to our old friends at the Folly,coping with a strange cases with roots in the far past and winemaking and the history of Germany's oldest city. Unusual . We did get occasional snippets where the Germans learn of a major resurgence Folly's work with a young detective called Grant showing big promise,and even of Nightingale mentoring a new raw explosive talent. Thats got to be Abigail,Peter's cousin. It all helps to keep the series fresh and fun
And thats it for this month. Interesting and enjoyable if not huge numbers of books. Oh well,quality over quantity any time
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