Another Spybrary podcast interview of mine is unleashed on the world. It’s with David McCloskey-recommended writer Robert McCaw, about his Washington molehunt book Traitors. Get it from your usual podcast source, or the link’s here. #readingcommunity #books #BookSky
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\nRead: The Predicament by William Boyd 📚I’ve loved Boyd’s standalones for years and this Greene-ish spy series either Gabriel Drax isn’t hitting the spot for me. Thin characters, clunky prose, sluggish pace. #BookSky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: Tamed by Alice Roberts 📚Pitched as pop anthropology humans domesticating animals and plant, emphasis on pre-history. Engagingly written but gets a bit repetitive. One of those ‘Would be better as a podcast’ books. #BooksSky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: Let it bleed by n/a 📚Rebus investigates high level corruption in Edinburgh. Again. It would be easy to dismiss it as just more Rankin content, except Rankin content is consistently very very very good. I’ll even forgive the Stones reference. #BookSky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: The alienist by Caleb Carr 📚Cracking atmospheric period NYC serial killer procedural with a walk on part for Theodore Roosevelt. #BookSky #readingcommunity #books
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\nRead: The Absinthe Forger by Evan Rail 📚One of those niche histories about something obscure. In this case, fake absinthe from pre-1915 when most of Europe banned it in a moral panic. Happily quirky, slight, and a bit hazy, like an afternoon drinking in the sun. #BookSky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: Karla’s Choice by Nick Harkaway 📚Le Carre’s son picks his father’s Smiley/Karla rivalry. Superb. Enough to make me reconsider my proscription on works that fills in holes in the canonical texts. #booksky #sky #readingcommunity
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\nWant to read: The Testament of Mary by Colm Toibin 📚\n#litfic
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\nRead: Calling by Inger Ash Wolfe 📚Scandinoir in central Ontario. Scanadia-noir? Jaded small town detective catches a religious nutjob serial killer. Thoughtful and atmospheric. #booksky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: Next of Kin by Kia Abdullah 📚Aunt kills toddler nephew. It’s and accident. Or is it? Kinda courtroom, kinda psychological, thriller. Fast, tropey read, which is not a bad thing. #booksky #books #readingcommunity
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\nRead: The Age of Wonder by Holmes, Richard 📚British scientists and breakthroughs in the wider culture where they happened, from about 1760 to 1830. Sounds pedestrian but it’s rivetting storytelling. #books #readingcommunity #booksky
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\nRead: Breakfast of Champions by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 📚Gleefully weird and Vonneguts gonna Vonnegut. He seems to slip under the ‘problematic’ radar with some of his language. He’s using it to making a point, but that doesn’t always stop the Bad Word Police. So it goes. #books #readingcommunity #booksky
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