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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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220/282 pages
The Books of Earthsea: The Complete Illustrated Edition
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749/997 pages
The Penguin Book of Russian Poetry
The Uncertain Land and Other Poems
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8/160 pages
The Heptameron (Penguin Classics)
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152/544 pages
The Poems and Plays of John Masefield
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78/534 pages
Poems Selected
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4/50 pages
Selected Poems
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18/160 pages
The Penguin Book of Scottish Verse
Hainish Novels & Stories, Vol. 2
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133/789 pages
Lost in a Good Book, Jasper Fforde
Lost the Plot After One Good Book, more like. I picked this up because it's No.2 in a series I'd read books 1, 3 and 4 of and it was mildly irritating not to know the full details of what went on in the gap. The Eyre Affair has a justifiable reputation as a fun, imaginative fantasy set in an alternative 1985 where people and characters can enter and leave books. Unfortunately all the problems I found with books 3 and 4, namely poor pacing, lack of protagonist agency and deus ex machina all start right here in book 2. It's very disappointing and I doubt I'll be reading anymore of this series unless desperate. I'm not even sure I want to try any Fforde that isn't part of this series.
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