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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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Octavia Butler is a highly-renowned author in sf and I've been intending to read her for ages, so when a friend lent me an omnibus of the Xenogenesis trilogy I was excited! But although Dawn (first in that trilogy) is objectively a good book, it really wasn't for me.

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This was the only Brother Cadfael book I hadn't read! And now I've read it, and I'm done the entire series, and I don't have any more new Cadfael books to look forward to in my future, sadface. But what a good series! And I now own ALL of the books so I can reread whenever I want. Maybe I should make the effort to reread this series but this time in order, so I can follow the long arc of the Stephen-Mathilda civil war B-plot.

Anyways!

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This is a mystery novel, third or fourth or something in a series where I haven't read the other books. WHATEVER, I DO WHAT I WANT. It is like reading fanfic when I don't know the source, which I do seriously ALL THE FRICKIN' TIME! Only the author here is actually very careful to make sure the reader is given just enough background details to be able to follow without having read previous books. In some respects this is too bad because I actually kind of ENJOY the detective work and pleasant confusion of just running with whatever is going on while not understanding the background! I AM WEIRD I KNOW.

Anyways. The series follows art historian Vicky Bliss, and this particular adventure is about the location of the eponymous Trojan gold which was lost during WWII.

I enjoyed this book and all, but I also found it rather frustrating. Spoilers! )

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