Revisiting my early teens where I discovered Gerald Durrell and devoured them all, filling in a collection as I come across the books in markets and second-hand stores. Love his enthusiasm and passion for the wildlife, although very much aware now of how much the British colonial attitudes are present
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ajft@bookwyrm.social started reading The Bafut beagles by Gerald Malcolm Durrell
ajft@bookwyrm.social stopped reading The lion and the unicorn by George Orwell
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed At All Costs by David Weber
11 down, series must end soon
3 stars
I promised myself I'd read the series and so I shall, although I'm finding them a real slog as it goes on... and on ... and on. Endless numbers and acronyms, if you enjoy huge made up space battles then go for it, its all yours
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Canal Dreams by Iain M. Banks
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Complicity. by Iain M. Banks
re-read after 20yrs, still good but now a timecapsule as well as a crime story
Re-read it after finding a $1 copy in a market, first read it twenty years ago when borrowed from a friend. Not quite as gripping second time around, very much of its time and place, the drugs, the music, the landscape and the politics of the UK in the early '90s. I think I had an inkling of whodunnit far earlier during my first reading than on my second, memory failed in the intervening years!
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ask an Adventurer by Alistair HUMPHREYS
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ask an Adventurer by Alistair HUMPHREYS
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Ravenmaster by Christopher Skaife
The ravens and the ravenmaster
4 stars
Like many others I stumbled on Christopher's account on twitter, then followed out of interest around the tower ravens. Interesting insight into day-to-day life with the birds in the tower
Dive headfirst into an adventure
4 stars
Quirky & entertaining, and a great motivator to get out there and go on an adventure, no matter how small, weird, or personal. Extra enjoyment from much of it being set in the nearby area I'm familiar with -- Melbourne's south-east to the west Gippsland towns
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Tales of Robin Hood by Archie Oliver
ajft@bookwyrm.social reviewed Old Man's War by John Scalzi
Enjoyably strange
4 stars
Strange, like Five Children & It. Not sure what I was expecting since all I'd ever heard of Nesbit was as the author of the Railway Children so when I saw these two in a roadside library I picked them up