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Back in the days after I'd started keeping a list of all the books I read each year but BEFORE I started posting reviews of them, I kept desultory personal notes (ranging from a single word to quite a few paragraphs) on some of the books. And I always vaguely forget I have, and forget where exactly to find them, and I'd like to just have them on my dw so they're FINDABLE again for me. And also some of you might find these interesting/amusing? (N.B. some of these contain what I would now classify as INCORRECT OPINIONS.)

SO HERE'S THREE YEARS' WORTH OF BOOKS IN ONE POST, OKAY GO.

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When We Wake, by Karen Healey

One of the troubles with writing relatively-near-future scifi is getting the details of the future right - because it's not so far away that you can make things up whole hog, as it should have evolved out of current things, but it's still far enough away that you can't just put a minor gloss on top of what right now is like.

When We Wake is mostly a very good book, but the future didn't feel right. spoilers follow )

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