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Arbie's Unoriginally Titled Book Blog
It's a blog! Mainly of book reviews.
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Station Zero
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The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
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The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
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The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
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The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
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Poems Selected
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Selected Poems
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The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
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...my first review for some time...Fever Crumb is an orphan of mysterious origins...heard that before? Terrible cliche, right? But it doesn't matter because the writing is lovely and the story rapidly becomes intriguing.
Readers of the Mortal Engines quartet will soon figure out that this is a kind of origin story and be pleased to learn all it tells about history before the age of Traction Cities yet still centuries after the departure of the Ancients. People coming to it fresh...well I'm not sure that it is the place to start, actually - the characters are not as strong as those in Mortal Engines and the imagined world not quite so startlingly original because that world hasn't come into existence yet. Nevertheless, if one insisted on starting here, an exciting story with better than average writing awaits, along with Noodle Poodle and Paper Boys as you've never conceived them....
Made me want to re-read the original four!