Hattie's bookshelf: all en-US Mon, 17 Mar 2025 00:29:15 -0700 60 Hattie's bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg <![CDATA[Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting]]> 60899306
Patty Lyons is an expert in all things knitting related - she will help you sort out your gauge, unpick problems like twisted stitches and generally spruce up your knitting know-how in this pocket-sized reference book packed full of her purls' of wisdom. Patty is a well-known knitting 'agony aunt' and she will hold your hand as you tackle the problems that often beset knitters and get in the way of beautiful finished projects.

This handy guide will always be by your side to help you unravel your yarn problems and get you back on track. Packed full of practical advice for knitters as well as step-by-step instructions for a whole raft of knitting issues, this is the ultimate guide for anyone who's ever picked up yarn and a set of needles.

This isn't like other how to knit' books with basic information about casting on and how to form stitches (although there is a handy how-to reference section at the back for when you need a refresher), this is a book about the why' of knitting. Not about why we knit' but about why we knit the way we do'. By digging deeper into the why' Patty doesn't just fix your knitting problems she helps you to truly understand why the yarn/stitches/needles/tension are acting in a certain way and how to fix any issues.

She starts by looking at the basics and explores the anatomy of a stitch, examining how this affects the look, feel and shape of the finished knitted fabrics and how different knitting techniques affect the finished outcome. Patty examines the problems caused by common mistakes that many knitters make without even noticing before diving into more complex knitting issues and how to trouble shoot them. All of Patty's techniques and tips are illustrated with detailed step-by-step artworks for absolute clarity.

And, as you'd expect from a Patty Lyons book, there is a healthy scattering of humour and irreverence thoughout ; you might take knitting seriously but you don't have to be serious while knitting!]]> 207 Patty Lyons 1446309118 Hattie 0 to-read 4.59 Patty Lyons' Knitting Bag of Tricks: Over 70 sanity saving hacks for better knitting
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]]> <![CDATA[The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)]]> 17334064
The immortal Magnus Bane is making the most of his time in the Roaring Twenties: He's settled into New York society and is thriving among the fashionable jazz set. And there is nowhere better to see and be seen than the glamorous Hotel Dumort, a glittering new addition to the Manhattan landscape. But a different type of glamour may be at play...]]> 61 Cassandra Clare 144249560X Hattie 3 3.79 The Rise of the Hotel Dumort (The Bane Chronicles, #5)
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]]> Swordheart 42771121 "Dive in...if you are looking to be charmed and delighted." - Locus Return to the world of Clockwork Boys in this all-new novel from T. Kingfisher! Halla is a housekeeper who has suddenly inherited her great-uncle's estate... and, unfortunately, his relatives. Sarkis is an immortal swordsman trapped in a prison of enchanted steel. When Halla draws the sword that imprisons him, Sarkis finds himself attempting to defend his new wielder against everything from bandits and roving inquisitors to her own in-laws... and the sword itself may prove to be the greatest threat of all...]]> 426 T. Kingfisher Hattie 4 4.34 2018 Swordheart
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average rating: 4.34
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods]]> 50636271
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 16 Maria Dahvana Headley 1250766311 Hattie 5 3.76 2020 The Girlfriend's Guide to Gods
author: Maria Dahvana Headley
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average rating: 3.76
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel #2)]]> 201882137 From two-time Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher comes Paladin's Strength, the perfect blend of cosy fantasy romance and classic fantasy adventure featuring an order of secretive nuns, a swashbuckling paladin and a strange hive of rabbits.He's a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She's a nun from a secretive order, on the trail of the raiders who burned her convent and kidnapped her sisters. When their paths cross at the point of a sword, Istvhan and Clara will be pitched headlong into each other's quests, facing off against enemies both living and dead. But Clara has a secret that could jeopardize the growing trust between them, a secret that will lead them to the gladiatorial pits of a corrupt city, and beyond...Praise for T. Kingfisher solidifies her place as natural and inevitable heir to the greats of her genre, while remaining clearly and unquestionably a unique voice in fantasy' Seanan McGuire'Exciting, deeply wise, sad, brutal and compassionate all at once. And beautifully written, with a plot as cunning as fine embroidery' Catriona Ward'Creepy, funny, heartfelt, and full of fantastic characters I absolutely loved' Melissa Caruso, author of The Tethered Mage"Nettle & Bone brings Kingfisher's signature honesty and authenticity to a fairy tale the result is refreshing, earnest but not naive, and deeply satisfying. I devoured it. This is one that's going to stay with me for a long time' Sarah Gailey, author of Magic for Liars'A delight throughout' Louisa Morgan, author of A Secret History of Witches'T. Kingfisher uses the bones of fairy tale to create something entirely her own, written in gloriously clear and transparent prose' Emily Tesh, author of Some Desperate Glory'Funny, frightening, and full of heart; I loved it' Alix E. Harrow, author of The Ten Thousand Doors of January'Charming and macabre, often both at the same time' A. K. Larkwood, author of The Unspoken Name'Absolutely delightful and full of charm and truth' Naomi Novik, on Thornhedge]]> 445 T. Kingfisher 0356524329 Hattie 5 4.13 2021 Paladin's Strength (The Saint of Steel #2)
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]]> <![CDATA[Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1)]]> 201881920
Paladin's Grace is a darkly whimsical fantasy featuring sock-knitting paladins, badass perfumers, courtroom hijinks and heart-racing romance, from Nebula and two-time Hugo Award-winning author T. Kingfisher.]]> 366 T. Kingfisher Hattie 5 4.24 2020 Paladin's Grace (The Saint of Steel #1)
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]]> The Wandering Earth 35491680
Here is the first collection of his short fiction: eleven stories, including five Chinese Galaxy Award-winners, form a blazingly original ode to planet earth, its pasts and its futures.]]> 447 Liu Cixin 1784978515 Hattie 0 to-read 4.18 2000 The Wandering Earth
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average rating: 4.18
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]]> <![CDATA[We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)]]> 32109569 Alternate Cover Edition can be found here.

Bob Johansson has just sold his software company and is looking forward to a life of leisure. There are places to go, books to read, and movies to watch. So it's a little unfair when he gets himself killed crossing the street.

Bob wakes up a century later to find that corpsicles have been declared to be without rights, and he is now the property of the state. He has been uploaded into computer hardware and is slated to be the controlling AI in an interstellar probe looking for habitable planets. The stakes are high: no less than the first claim to entire worlds. If he declines the honor, he'll be switched off, and they'll try again with someone else. If he accepts, he becomes a prime target. There are at least three other countries trying to get their own probes launched first, and they play dirty.

The safest place for Bob is in space, heading away from Earth at top speed. Or so he thinks. Because the universe is full of nasties, and trespassers make them mad - very mad.]]> 383 Dennis E. Taylor Hattie 0 to-read 4.29 2016 We Are Legion (We Are Bob) (Bobiverse, #1)
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]]> <![CDATA[Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)]]> 2113260
Eddie Russett is an above-average Red who dreams of moving up the ladder. Until he is sent to the Outer Fringes where he meets Jane - a lowly Grey with an uncontrollable temper and a desire to see him killed.

For Eddie, it's love at first sight. But his infatuation will lead him to discover that all is not as it seems in a world where everything that looks black and white is really shades of grey...]]> 400 Jasper Fforde 0670019631 Hattie 5 4.15 2009 Shades of Grey (Shades of Grey, #1)
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average rating: 4.15
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rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)]]> 53181090 There are dark forces at work in our world (and in Manchester in particular), so thank God The Stranger Times is on hand to report them...

A weekly newspaper dedicated to the weird and the wonderful (but mostly the weird), it is the go-to publication for the unexplained and inexplicable. At least that's their pitch. The reality is less auspicious. Their editor is a drunken, foul-tempered, and foul-mouthed husk of a man who thinks little of the publication he edits. His staff are a ragtag group of misfits. And as for the assistant editor... well, that job is a revolving door--and it has just revolved to reveal Hannah Willis, who's got problems of her own.

When tragedy strikes in Hannah's first week on the job, The Stranger Times is forced to do some serious investigating. What they discover leads to a shocking realisation: some of the stories they'd previously dismissed as nonsense are in fact terrifyingly real. Soon they come face-to-face with darker forces than they could ever have imagined.]]> 432 C.K. McDonnell 1787633365 Hattie 0 to-read 4.11 2021 The Stranger Times (Stranger Times, #1)
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]]> Beowulf 41940267 Beowulf by the author of The Mere Wife.

Nearly twenty years after Seamus Heaney’s translation of Beowulf � and fifty years after the translation that continues to torment high-school students around the world � there is a radical new verse translation of the epic poem by Maria Dahvana Headley, which brings to light elements never before translated into English.

A man seeks to prove himself as a hero. A monster seeks silence in his territory. A warrior seeks to avenge her murdered son. A dragon ends it all. These familiar components of the epic poem are seen with a novelist’s eye toward gender, genre, and history. Beowulf has always been a tale of entitlement and encroachment � of powerful men seeking to become more powerful and one woman seeking justice for her child � but this version brings new context to an old story. While crafting her contemporary adaptation, Headley unearthed significant shifts lost over centuries of translation; her Beowulf is one for the twenty-first century.]]> 140 Unknown 0374110034 Hattie 0 currently-reading 4.10 1000 Beowulf
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]]> <![CDATA[Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out]]> 63902275
Arthur's 21-year-old grandson, Teddy, has a secret of his own: he's also gay, and developing serious feelings for his colleague Ben. But Teddy doesn't feel ready to come out yet � especially when Arthur’s announcement causes shockwaves in the family.

Arthur and Teddy have always been close, and now they must navigate first loves, heartbreak, and finding their place in their community. But can they � and their family � learn to accept who they truly are?]]> 336 Ryan Love 0008541205 Hattie 0 currently-reading 3.64 2023 Arthur and Teddy Are Coming Out
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]]> <![CDATA[White Trash Zombie Unchained (White Trash Zombie, #6)]]> 27872519
Too bad the future is a nasty bitch. There’s a new kind of zombie in town: mindless shamblers, infectious and ravenous.

With the threat of a full-blown shambler pandemic looming, and a loved one stricken, Angel and the “real� zombies scramble to find a cure. Yet when Angel uncovers the true reason the plague is spreading so quickly, she adds “no-holds-barred revenge� to her to-do list.

Angel is busting her ass dealing with shambling hordes, zombie gators, government jerks, and way too many mosquitos, but this white trash chick ain’t giving up.

Good thing, since the fate of the world is resting on her undead shoulders.]]> 354 Diana Rowland 0756408245 Hattie 0 currently-reading 4.27 2017 White Trash Zombie Unchained (White Trash Zombie, #6)
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]]> Hex 50197005
Surrounded by Nell's ex, her best friend, her best friend's boyfriend, and Joan's buffoonish husband, the two scientists are tangled together at the center of a web of illicit relationships, grudges, and obsessions. All six are burdened by desire and ambition, and as they collide on the university campus, their attractions set in motion a domino effect of affairs and heartbreak.

Meanwhile, Nell slowly fills her empty apartment with poisonous plants to study, and she begins to keep a series of notebooks, all dedicated to Joan. She logs her research and how she spends her days, but the notebooks ultimately become a painstaking map of love. In a dazzling and unforgettable voice, Rebecca Dinerstein Knight has written a spellbinding novel of emotional and intellectual intensity.]]> 224 Rebecca Dinerstein Knight 1984877372 Hattie 3 3.21 2020 Hex
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average rating: 3.21
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]]> Red, White & Royal Blue 41150487
As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry that could derail the campaign and upend two nations. What is worth the sacrifice? How do you do all the good you can do? And, most importantly, how will history remember you?]]> 448 Casey McQuiston 1250316774 Hattie 5 4.06 2019 Red, White & Royal Blue
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average rating: 4.06
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rating: 5
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You know what I read it in one sitting after all my friends told me I should. So it gets 5 stars. Very good romance novel, all the good tropes, with some extra ones to boot. Their emails especially are very good
]]> Nen and the Lonely Fisherman 56891210 Nen and the Lonely Fisherman tells the story of a merman’s search for true love, sending a song of hope across the sea while a lonely, caring young fisherman named Ernest hopes to find warmth in his heart. As the two meet, they feel a special connection, much to the dismay of Nen’s father Pelagios who creates a wild sea storm to protect his son and the ocean. Can Nen save Ernest?

This wonderful paperback book showcases a story of love in adversity, which serves as reminder to us all to care for people and planet.]]> 32 Ian Eagleton 1913339092 Hattie 5 4.38 2021 Nen and the Lonely Fisherman
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]]> Bored Gay Werewolf 75374437 272 Tony Santorella 1838957014 Hattie 0 3.47 2023 Bored Gay Werewolf
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]]> Double Booked 59831350 Gina is about to marry her boyfriend.
George is about to join a cult lesbian pop band.
Gina and George are the same person.
No wonder Georgina is DOUBLE BOOKED
A fresh, timely and genuinely laugh-out-loud romantic comedy about a sensible young woman in a long-term relationship who realises she's bisexual.

Georgina is a sensible 26-year-old with a routine: 1) schedule dates with long-term boyfriend, 2) teach piano to inept children, and 3) repeat until dead. Perfect.

But when one night she deviates from her usual timetable and sees the indie lesbian pop band Phase, Georgina realises: 1) she longs to play her own music again, 2) she wants to be just like them, and 3) their drummer is really hot...

Scared of losing her happy straight life, but feeling a new sense of belonging in the gay scene, she does what any rational person would do: she splits herself in two. She'll be Gina by day, George by night. It's going to take painstaking scheduling, a versatile wardrobe, and an ambiguous haircut, but maybe Georgina really can have both?]]> 416 Lily Lindon 1801107564 Hattie 0 3.31 2022 Double Booked
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]]> <![CDATA[Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10)]]> 1128995 An alternate cover edition exists here.

'Holy wood is a different sort of place. People act differently here. Everywhere else the most important things are gods or money or cattle. Here, the most important thing is to be important.'


People might say that reality is a quality that things possess in the same way that they possess weight. Sadly alchemists never really held with such a quaint notion. They think that they can change reality, shape it to their own purpose. Imagine then the damage that could be wrought if they get their hands on the ultimate alchemy: the invention of motion pictures, the greatest making of illusions. It may be a triumph of universe-shaking proportions. It's either that or they're about to unlock the dark terrible secret of the Holy Wood hills - by mistake...]]> Terry Pratchett 0575047631 Hattie 4 3.91 1990 Moving Pictures (Discworld, #10)
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average rating: 3.91
book published: 1990
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)]]> 35042084 A stand-alone fantasy tale from Seanan McGuire's Alex-award winning Wayward Children series, which began in the Alex, Hugo, Nebula, and Locus Award-winning, World Fantasy Award finalist, Tiptree Honor List Every Heart a Doorway

Beneath the Sugar Sky, the third book in McGuire's Wayward Children series, returns to Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children in a standalone contemporary fantasy for fans of all ages. At this magical boarding school, children who have experienced fantasy adventures are reintroduced to the "real" world.

When Rini lands with a literal splash in the pond behind Eleanor West's Home for Wayward Children, the last thing she expects to find is that her mother, Sumi, died years before Rini was even conceived. But Rini can’t let Reality get in the way of her quest � not when she has an entire world to save! (Much more common than one would suppose.)

If she can't find a way to restore her mother, Rini will have more than a world to she will never have been born in the first place. And in a world without magic, she doesn’t have long before Reality notices her existence and washes her away. Good thing the student body is well-acquainted with quests...

A tale of friendship, baking, and derring-do.

May contain nuts.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 174 Seanan McGuire 0765393573 Hattie 3 4.04 2018 Beneath the Sugar Sky (Wayward Children, #3)
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average rating: 4.04
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]]> Nimona 19351043
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from N.D. Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.

Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren't the heroes everyone thinks they are.

But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona's powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.]]> 272 N.D. Stevenson Hattie 5 4.16 2015 Nimona
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> <![CDATA[Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)]]> 53449951 A young girl discovers a portal to a land filled with centaurs and unicorns in Seanan McGuire's Across the Green Grass Fields, a standalone tale in the Hugo and Nebula Award-wining Wayward Children series.

“Welcome to the Hooflands. We’re happy to have you, even if you being here means something’s coming.�

Regan loves, and is loved, though her school-friend situation has become complicated, of late.

When she suddenly finds herself thrust through a doorway that asks her to "Be Sure" before swallowing her whole, Regan must learn to live in a world filled with centaurs, kelpies, and other magical equines―a world that expects its human visitors to step up and be heroes.

But after embracing her time with the herd, Regan discovers that not all forms of heroism are equal, and not all quests are as they seem…]]> 174 Seanan McGuire Hattie 4 4.05 2021 Across the Green Grass Fields (Wayward Children, #6)
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average rating: 4.05
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]]> <![CDATA[Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)]]> 63113685
From the worlds of Wayward Children comes a story of love, of devotion, of bones wrapped in flesh.]]> 25 Seanan McGuire Hattie 4 4.22 2022 Skeleton Song (Wayward Children, #7.7)
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average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 56949690
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.

We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.

Understood? Then let's begin . . .

Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . .

The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.]]> Stuart Turton Hattie 2 3.50 2018 The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
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]]> <![CDATA[The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)]]> 55878999 Welcome to The Sunbearer Trials, where teen semidioses compete in a series of challenges with the highest of stakes, in this electric new Mexican-inspired fantasy from Aiden Thomas, the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys.

“Only the most powerful and honorable semidioses get chosen. I’m just a Jade. I’m not a real hero.�

As each new decade begins, the Sun’s power must be replenished so that Sol can keep traveling along the sky and keep the evil Obsidian gods at bay. Ten semidioses between the ages of thirteen and eighteen are selected by Sol himself as the most worthy to compete in The Sunbearer Trials. The winner carries light and life to all the temples of Reino del Sol, but the loser has the greatest honor of all―they will be sacrificed to Sol, their body used to fuel the Sun Stones that will protect the people of Reino del Sol for the next ten years.

Teo, a 17-year-old Jade semidiós and the trans son of Quetzal, goddess of birds, has never worried about the Trials…or rather, he’s only worried for others. His best friend Niya―daughter of Tierra, the god of earth―is one of the strongest heroes of their generation and is much too likely to be chosen this year. He also can’t help but worry (reluctantly, and under protest) for Aurelio, a powerful Gold semidiós and Teo’s friend-turned-rival who is a shoo-in for the Trials. Teo wouldn’t mind taking Aurelio down a notch or two, but a one-in-ten chance of death is a bit too close for Teo’s taste.

But then, for the first time in over a century, Sol chooses a semidiós who isn’t a Gold. In fact, he chooses two: Xio, the 13-year-old child of Mala Suerte, god of bad luck, and…Teo. Now they must compete in five mysterious trials, against opponents who are both more powerful and better trained, for fame, glory, and their own survival.]]> 352 Aiden Thomas Hattie 0 to-read 4.32 2022 The Sunbearer Trials (The Sunbearer Duology, #1)
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]]> Belladonna (Belladonna, #1) 59227936
Orphaned as a baby, nineteen-year-old Signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each one more interested in her wealth than her well-being—and each has met an untimely end. Her remaining relatives are the elusive Hawthornes, an eccentric family living at Thorn Grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. Its patriarch mourns his late wife through wild parties, while his son grapples for control of the family’s waning reputation, and his daughter suffers from a mysterious illness. But when their mother’s restless spirit appears claiming she was poisoned, Signa realizes that the family she depends on could be in grave danger and enlists the help of a surly stable boy to hunt down the killer.

However, Signa’s best chance of uncovering the murderer is an alliance with Death himself, a fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side. Though he’s made her life a living hell, Death shows Signa that their growing connection may be more powerful—and more irresistible—than she ever dared imagine.]]> 409 Adalyn Grace 0316158232 Hattie 0 to-read 3.97 2022 Belladonna (Belladonna, #1)
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]]> Less Is Lost 63275829 In thefollow-up to the best-selling and Pulitzer Prize-winning Less, the awkward and lovable Arthur Less returns in an unforgettable road trip across America.

“Go get lost somewhere, it always does you good.�

For Arthur Less, life is going surprisingly well: he is a moderately accomplished novelist in a steady relationship with his partner, Freddy Pelu. But nothing lasts: the death of an old lover and a sudden financial crisis has Less running away from his problems yet again as he accepts a series of literary gigs that send him on a zigzagging adventure across the US.

Less roves across the “Mild Mild West,”throughthe South and to his mid-Atlantic birthplace, with an ever-changing posse of writerly characters and his trusty duo � a human-like black pug, Dolly, and a rusty camper van nicknamed Rosina. He grows a handlebar mustache, ditches his signature gray suit, and disguises himself in the bolero-and-cowboy-hatcostume of a true “Unitedstatesian�... with varying levels of success, as he continues to be mistaken for either a Dutchman, the wrong writer, or, worst of all, a “bad gay.�

We cannot, however, escape ourselves—even across deserts,bayous,and coastlines.From his estranged father and strained relationship with Freddy, to the reckoning he experiences in confronting his privilege, Arthur Less must eventually face his personal demons. With all of the irrepressible wit and musicality that made Less a bestselling, Pulitzer Prize-winning, must-read breakout book,Less IsLostis a profound and joyous novel about the enigma of life in America, the riddle of love, and the stories we tell along the way.]]> 272 Andrew Sean Greer 1408713373 Hattie 4 3.55 2022 Less Is Lost
author: Andrew Sean Greer
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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I only picked this up because of the cover, I’ve not read the first book but this was a good story actually. I’m not sure what I was expecting but it was an interesting road trip story.
]]> Make You Mine This Christmas 61336848 It's the golden rule of pretending to be someone's girlfriend: don't fall for their sister.

After a year from hell, Haf is ready to blow off steam at a Christmas party: a kind stranger, a few too many drinks and suddenly she's kissing Christopher under the mistletoe - in front of his ex-girlfriend.

The next day the news is out that they're apparently a couple, madly in love and coming to Oxlea to spend the festive season with Christopher's family. But Haf doesn't have better holiday plans and to save her new friend from embarrassment, she agrees to pretend to be Christopher's girlfriend for Christmas.

It has the makings of a hilarious anecdote they'll be telling for years. Until Haf meets Christopher's sister: the mysterious, magnetic and utterly irresistible Kit. Maybe love was waiting for Haf in this quiet little town all along . . .]]> 354 Lizzie Huxley-Jones Hattie 5 3.99 2022 Make You Mine This Christmas
author: Lizzie Huxley-Jones
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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]]> Skin Deep 74700024 Three times during the summer, the lifeless body of a Selkie was dumped into the river. Naked, and with a missing pelt.

Louison is sent by her clan to investigate these murders and catch the killer, but her mission derails when she meets two charming strangers whom everyone in town seems to be falling in love with - including herself. Torn between her rising attraction towards Gabrielle and Adrien and keeping the secret of her origins, Louison must dodge tourists, deadly poachers and wildlife protection agents in a wild quest to find her sibling’s murderer - before he kills again.]]> 146 Marie Blanchet 1738661121 Hattie 5 3.91 Skin Deep
author: Marie Blanchet
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.91
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]]> Saga, Volume 8 43307890
Collects: Saga #43-48.]]> 152 Brian K. Vaughan 1534303499 Hattie 4 4.46 2017 Saga, Volume 8
author: Brian K. Vaughan
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2018/01/18
date added: 2023/03/03
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]]> <![CDATA[Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)]]> 31450908
This is the story of what happened first�

Jacqueline was her mother’s perfect daughter—polite and quiet, always dressed as a princess. If her mother was sometimes a little strict, it’s because crafting the perfect daughter takes discipline.

Jillian was her father’s perfect daughter—adventurous, thrill-seeking, and a bit of a tom-boy. He really would have preferred a son, but you work with what you've got.

They were five when they learned that grown-ups can’t be trusted.

They were twelve when they walked down the impossible staircase and discovered that the pretense of love can never be enough to prepare you a life filled with magic in a land filled with mad scientists and death and choices.]]> 187 Seanan McGuire 0765392038 Hattie 5 4.14 2017 Down Among the Sticks and Bones (Wayward Children, #2)
author: Seanan McGuire
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2023/02/27
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]]> Leech 59807968 In an isolated chateau, as far north as north goes, the baron’s doctor has died. The doctor’s replacement has a mystery to solve: discovering how the Institute lost track of one of its many bodies.

For hundreds of years the Interprovincial Medical Institute has grown by taking root in young minds and shaping them into doctors, replacing every human practitioner of medicine. The Institute is here to help humanity, to cure and to cut, to cradle and protect the species from the apocalyptic horrors their ancestors unleashed.

In the frozen north, the Institute's body will discover a competitor for its rung at the top of the evolutionary ladder. A parasite is spreading through the baron's castle, already a dark pit of secrets, lies, violence, and fear. The two will make war on the battlefield of the body. Whichever wins, humanity will lose again.]]> 323 Hiron Ennes 125081118X Hattie 4 3.57 2022 Leech
author: Hiron Ennes
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)]]> 25533896 No Solicitations
No Visitors
No Quests

Children have always disappeared under the right conditions; slipping through the shadows under a bed or at the back of a wardrobe, tumbling down rabbit holes and into old wells, and emerging somewhere... else.

But magical lands have little need for used-up miracle children.

Nancy tumbled once, but now she's back. The things she's experienced... they change a person. The children under Miss West's care understand all too well. And each of them is seeking a way back to their own fantasy world.

But Nancy's arrival marks a change at the Home. There's a darkness just around each corner, and when tragedy strikes, it's up to Nancy and her new-found schoolmates to get to the heart of things.

No matter the cost.]]> 176 Seanan McGuire Hattie 4 diversity-2017 3.89 2016 Every Heart a Doorway (Wayward Children, #1)
author: Seanan McGuire
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2023/02/01
date added: 2023/02/01
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]]> Project Hail Mary 59220482
All he knows is that he's been asleep for a very, very long time. And he's just been awakened to find himself millions of miles from home, with nothing but two corpses for company.

His crewmates dead, his memories fuzzily returning, Ryland realises that an impossible task now confronts him. Hurtling through space on this tiny ship, it's up to him to puzzle out an impossible scientific mystery and conquer an extinction-level threat to our species.

And with the clock ticking down and the nearest human being light-years away, he's got to do it all alone. Or does he?]]> Andy Weir 1867568136 Hattie 5 It was really interesting getting the slow reveal of the amnesia backstory, and I enjoyed the buddy comedy style of Rocky and Grace. Nice alien design too.
And I’ve gotta compliment the audio production too as I listened to the book, I liked the musical tone background for all of Rockys speech. ]]> 4.25 2021 Project Hail Mary
author: Andy Weir
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/24
date added: 2023/01/24
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Oh I loved this so much, but I enjoyed The Martian too and this is very similar so I also enjoyed!
It was really interesting getting the slow reveal of the amnesia backstory, and I enjoyed the buddy comedy style of Rocky and Grace. Nice alien design too.
And I’ve gotta compliment the audio production too as I listened to the book, I liked the musical tone background for all of Rockys speech.
]]> Babel 57945316 From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a historical fantasy epic that grapples with student revolutions, colonial resistance, and the use of language and translation as the dominating tool of the British Empire

Traduttore, traditore: An act of translation is always an act of betrayal.

1828. Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is brought to London by the mysterious Professor Lovell. There, he trains for years in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese, all in preparation for the day he’ll enroll in Oxford University’s prestigious Royal Institute of Translation—also known as Babel. The tower and its students are the world's center for translation and, more importantly, magic. Silver-working—the art of manifesting the meaning lost in translation using enchanted silver bars—has made the British unparalleled in power, as the arcane craft serves the Empire's quest for colonization.

For Robin, Oxford is a utopia dedicated to the pursuit of knowledge. But knowledge obeys power, and as a Chinese boy raised in Britain, Robin realizes serving Babel means betraying his motherland. As his studies progress, Robin finds himself caught between Babel and the shadowy Hermes Society, an organization dedicated to stopping imperial expansion. When Britain pursues an unjust war with China over silver and opium, Robin must decide . . .

Can powerful institutions be changed from within, or does revolution always require violence?]]> 544 R.F. Kuang 0063021420 Hattie 5 4.17 2022 Babel
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2023/01/13
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I get the hype, interesting magic concept, interesting time period, good pace, bit unsatisfied at the ending but I think it still fits
]]> <![CDATA[Underland: A Deep Time Journey]]> 51023654 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER

From the internationally bestselling, prize-winning author of Landmarks, The Lost Words and The Old Ways

'Dazzling' Guardian

'Heart-stopping' Daily Telegraph

'Mesmerizing' Observer

'Epic' Financial Times

'You'd be crazy not to read this book' The Sunday Times

Underland is an epic exploration of the Earth's underworlds as they exist in myth, literature, memory and the land itself. At once ancient and urgent, this is a book that will change the way you see the world.

'Marvellous... Neverending curiosity, generosity of spirit, erudition, bravery and clarity... This is a book well worth reading' The Times

'Extraordinary... at once learned and readable, thrilling and beautifully written' Observer

'Attentive, thoughtful, finely honed... I turned the last page with the unusual conviction of having been in the company of a fine writer who is - who must surely be - a good man' Telegraph

'Poetry, science, a healthy sense of the uncanny and a touch of the shamanic are the hallmarks of his writing... This is a journey that tells the story not just of nature but of human nature. And there is noone I would more gladly follow on it' i

'Startling and memorable, charting invisible and vanishing worlds. Macfarlane has made himself Orpheus, the poet who ventures down to the darkest depths and returns - frighteningly alone-to sing of what he has seen' New Statesman]]> 488 Robert Macfarlane 0141030577 Hattie 0 to-read 4.32 2019 Underland: A Deep Time Journey
author: Robert Macfarlane
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Bloom 39073387
Writer Kevin Panetta and artist Savanna Ganucheau concoct a delicious recipe of intricately illustrated baking scenes and blushing young love, in which the choices we make can have terrible consequences, but the people who love us can help us grow.]]> 368 Kevin Panetta 1626726418 Hattie 0 to-read 3.91 2019 Bloom
author: Kevin Panetta
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Saga, Volume 10 29237224
Collects: Saga #55-60.]]> 160 Fiona Staples 1534323341 Hattie 4 4.30 2022 Saga, Volume 10
author: Fiona Staples
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/31
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]]> <![CDATA[The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher]]> 61175640 You're never too old for adventure.

When you’re a geriatric armed with nothing but gumption and knitting needles, stopping a sorcerer from wiping out an entire dragon-fighting organization is a tall order. No one understands why 83-year-old Edna Fisher is the Chosen One, destined to save the Knights from a dragon-riding sorcerer bent on their destruction. After all, Edna has never handled a magical weapon, faced down a dragon, or cast a spell. And everyone knows the Council of Wizards always chooses a teenager—like the vengeful girl ready to snatch Edna’s destiny from under her nose.

Still, Edna leaps at the chance to leave the nursing home. With her son long dead in the Knights� service, she’s determined to save dragon-fighters like him and to ensure other mothers don’t suffer the same loss she did. But as Edna learns about the abuse in the ranks and the sorcerer’s history as a Knight, she questions if it’s really the sorcerer that needs stopping—or the Knights she’s trying to save.]]> 370 E.M. Anderson 1956037225 Hattie 0 to-read 3.65 2023 The Remarkable Retirement of Edna Fisher
author: E.M. Anderson
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.65
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]]> The First to Die at the End 59726037 In this prequel to the NO. 1 INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLING phenomenon of TIKTOK fame, They Both Die at the End, two new strangers spend a life-changing day together after Death-Cast make their first fateful calls.

ҵ They Both Die at the End broke your heart and put it back together again, be prepared for this novel to do the same. A tender, sad, hopeful and youthful story that deserves as much love as its predecessor.� Culturefly
'[A] heart-pounding story [full] of emotion and suspense.' Kirkus
'An extraordinary book with a riveting plot.' Booklist

Meet Orion and Valentino.

It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can Death-Cast actually predict death, or is it an elaborate hoax? Orion Pagan has waited years for someone to tell him that he’s going to die, given his serious heart condition. Valentino Prince has a long and promising future ahead of him and only registered for Death-Cast after his twin sister nearly died in a car accident.

Orion and Valentino cross paths in Times Square and immediately feel a deep connection. But when the first End Day calls go out, their lives are changed for ever � one of them receives a call . . . the other doesn’t.

Told with acclaimed author Adam Silvera’s signature bittersweet touch, this story celebrates the lasting impact that people have on each other and proves that life is always worth living to the fullest.

PRAISE FOR ADAM SILVERA:

'There isn't a teenager alive who won't find their heart described perfectly on these pages.'Patrick Ness, author of The Knife of Never Letting Go

'Adam Silvera is a master at capturing the infinite small heartbreaks of love and loss and grief.'Nicola Yoon, author of Everything, Everything

'A phenomenal talent.'Juno Dawson, author of Clean and Wonderland

'Bold and haunting.'Lauren Oliver, author ofDelirium]]> 10 Adam Silvera 1398512451 Hattie 5 3.73 2022 The First to Die at the End
author: Adam Silvera
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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Didn’t quite cry like I did from the first but a close one! When I realised where they were going with the heart storyline I gasped, and the little bits with Rufus and Mateo were so sweet, nods to the original book was nice
]]> The Road Trip 51405046
But, not long after setting off, a car slams into the back of theirs. The driver is none other than Addie's ex, Dylan, who she's avoided since their traumatic break-up two years earlier.

Dylan and his best mate are heading to the wedding too, and they've totalled their car, so Addie has no choice but to offer them a ride. The car is soon jam-packed full of luggage and secrets, and with three hundred miles ahead of them, Dylan and Addie can't avoid confronting the very messy history of their relationship...

Will they make it to the wedding on time? And, more importantly... is this really the end of the road for Addie and Dylan?]]> 414 Beth O'Leary 1529409055 Hattie 3 3.57 2021 The Road Trip
author: Beth O'Leary
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/12/02
date added: 2022/12/02
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Well definitely a different book to The Switch or Flat Share, these are all terrible people who to be probably deserve each other. Absolute babies when they meet, and I guess they’ve grown while they’ve been apart? It was interesting to have the then/now storylines so you slowly learn the history of these 2. I’m not sure I liked it? Not fluffy enough for a standard romance but not enough drama to be a proper drama?
]]> Book Lovers 58690308 One summer. Two rivals. A plot twist they didn't see coming....

Nora Stephens� life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.

Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters� trip away—with visions of a small-town transformation for Nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.

If Nora knows she’s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he’s nobody’s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again—in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow—what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they’ve written about themselves.]]> 377 Emily Henry 0593334833 Hattie 0 to-read 4.09 2022 Book Lovers
author: Emily Henry
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.09
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rating: 0
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]]> They Both Die at the End 43881377 8 hrs 30 mins

Adam Silvera reminds us that there’s no life without death and no love without loss in this devastating yet uplifting story about two people whose lives change over the course of one unforgettable day.

New York Times bestseller * 4 starred reviews * A School Library Journal Best Book of the Year * A Kirkus Best Book of the Year * A Booklist Editors' Choice of 2017 * A Bustle Best YA Novel of 2017 * A Paste Magazine Best YA Book of 2017 * A Book Riot Best Queer Book of 2017 * A Buzzfeed Best YA Book of the Year * A BookPage Best YA Book of the Year

On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad news: They’re going to die today.

Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they’re both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There’s an app for that. It’s called the Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure—to live a lifetime in a single day.

In the tradition of Before I Fall and If I Stay, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut, More Happy Than Not, the New York Times called “profound.�

©2017 Adam Silvera (P)2017 HarperCollins Publishers]]> 9 Adam Silvera Hattie 5 Such an excellent story, even knowing how it’s gonna ends it’s still heartbreaking when you get there. Highly recommend the audio, different narrators for each of our lads, and they really make it feel just so much more. ]]> 3.70 2017 They Both Die at the End
author: Adam Silvera
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Oh apparently I never reviewed it last time, well I read it again, I loved it again, I cried buckets at the end again.
Such an excellent story, even knowing how it’s gonna ends it’s still heartbreaking when you get there. Highly recommend the audio, different narrators for each of our lads, and they really make it feel just so much more.
]]> <![CDATA[Otherlands: A World in the Making]]> 54913722
Otherlands is an epic, exhilarating journey into deep time, showing us the Earth as it used to exist, and the worlds that were here before ours. Travelling back in time to the dawn of complex life, and across all seven continents, award-winning young palaeobiologist Thomas Halliday gives us a mesmerizing up close encounter with eras that are normally unimaginably distant.

Halliday immerses us in a series of ancient landscapes, from the mammoth steppe in Ice Age Alaska to the lush rainforests of Eocene Antarctica, with its colonies of giant penguins, to Ediacaran Australia, where the moon is far brighter than ours today. We visit the birthplace of humanity; we hear the crashing of the highest waterfall the Earth has ever known; and we watch as life emerges again after the asteroid hits, and the age of the mammal dawns. These lost worlds seem fantastical and yet every description - whether the colour of a beetle's shell, the rhythm of pterosaurs in flight or the lingering smell of sulphur in the air - is grounded in the fossil record.

Otherlands is a staggering imaginative feat: an emotional narrative that underscores the tenacity of life - yet also the fragility of seemingly permanent ecosystems, including our own. To read it is to see the last 500 million years not as an endless expanse of unfathomable time, but as a series of worlds, simultaneously fabulous and familiar.]]> 384 Thomas Halliday 0241405742 Hattie 0 4.12 2022 Otherlands: A World in the Making
author: Thomas Halliday
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)]]> 36341204
Ben thinks the universe needs to mind its business. If the universe had his back, he wouldn’t be on his way to the post office carrying a box of his ex-boyfriend’s things.

But when Arthur and Ben meet-cute at the post office, what exactly does the universe have in store for them?

Maybe nothing. After all, they get separated.

Maybe everything. After all, they get reunited.

But what if they can’t quite nail a first date . . . or a second first date . . . or a third?

What if Arthur tries too hard to make it work . . . and Ben doesn’t try hard enough?

What if life really isn’t like a Broadway play?

But what if it is?]]> 437 Becky Albertalli 0062795252 Hattie 0 to-read 3.81 2018 What If It's Us (What If It's Us, #1)
author: Becky Albertalli
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Emily Eternal 40521855
She's an artificial consciousness, designed in a lab to help humans process trauma, which is particularly helpful when the sun begins to die 5 billion years before scientists agreed it was supposed to.

So, her beloved human race is screwed, and so is Emily. That is, until she finds a potential answer buried deep in the human genome. But before her solution can be tested, her lab is brutally attacked, and Emily is forced to go on the run with two human companions - college student Jason and small-town Sheriff, Mayra.

As the sun's death draws near, Emily and her friends must race against time to save humanity. But before long it becomes clear that it's not only the species at stake, but also that which makes us most human.]]> 294 M.G. Wheaton 1473681952 Hattie 3 3.36 2019 Emily Eternal
author: M.G. Wheaton
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.36
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2022/10/23
date added: 2022/10/23
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Eh, alright. The start was good, the final resolutions required just a little bit too much suspension of disbelief for me and felt rushed
]]> Entangled Life 54831593 ‘A dazzling, vibrant, vision-changing book. I ended it wonderstruck at the fungal world. A remarkable work by a remarkable writer� Robert Macfarlane, author of Underland

The more we learn about fungi, the less makes sense without them.

Neither plant nor animal, they are found throughout the earth, the air and our bodies. They can be microscopic, yet also account for the largest organisms ever recorded. They enabled the first life on land, can survive unprotected in space and thrive amidst nuclear radiation. In fact, nearly all life relies in some way on fungi.

These endlessly surprising organisms have no brain but can solve problems and manipulate animal behaviour with devastating precision. In giving us bread, alcohol and life-saving medicines, fungi have shaped human history, and their psychedelic properties have recently been shown to alleviate a number of mental illnesses. Their ability to digest plastic, explosives, pesticides and crude oil is being harnessed in break-through technologies, and the discovery that they connect plants in underground networks, the ‘Wood Wide Web�, is transforming the way we understand ecosystems. Yet over ninety percent of their species remain undocumented.

Entangled Life is a mind-altering journey into a spectacular and neglected world, and shows that fungi provide a key to understanding both the planet on which we live, and life itself.

'One of those rare books that can truly change the way you see the world around you. Astounding' Helen MacDonald, author of H Is for Hawk]]> 358 Merlin Sheldrake 1784708275 Hattie 4 biology-book-club 4.29 2020 Entangled Life
author: Merlin Sheldrake
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/11
date added: 2022/10/11
shelves: biology-book-club
review:
Really interesting book, absolutely weird author, but very easy to read for the most part
]]> <![CDATA[The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy #3)]]> 28251
Sonea has learned much at the magicians' guild and the other novices now treat her with a grudging respect. But she cannot forget what she witnessed in the High Lord's underground room - or his warning that the realm's ancient enemy is growing in power once more. As Sonea learns more, she begins to doubt her guildmaster's word. Could the truth really be as terrifying as Akkarin claims, or is he trying to trick her into assisting in some unspeakably dark scheme?]]> 644 Trudi Canavan 1841493155 Hattie 5 4.14 2002 The High Lord (The Black Magician Trilogy #3)
author: Trudi Canavan
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Londonist Mapped: Hand-Drawn Maps for the Curious Londoner]]> 35888527 96 Londonist 0749579102 Hattie 0 to-read 4.53 2018 Londonist Mapped: Hand-Drawn Maps for the Curious Londoner
author: Londonist
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2)]]> 28250 577 Trudi Canavan 1841493147 Hattie 5 4.08 2002 The Novice (The Black Magician Trilogy #2)
author: Trudi Canavan
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)]]> 28249
This year, like every other, the magicians of Imardin gather to purge the city of undesirables. Cloaked in the protection of their sorcery, they move with no fear of the vagrants and miscreants who despise them and their work-—until one enraged girl, barely more than a child, hurls a stone at the hated invaders...and effortlessly penetrates their magical shield.

What the Magicians' Guild has long dreaded has finally come to pass. There is someone outside their ranks who possesses a raw power beyond imagining, an untrained mage who must be found and schooled before she destroys herself and her city with a force she cannot yet control.]]> 467 Trudi Canavan 1841493139 Hattie 5 3.98 2001 The Magicians' Guild (The Black Magician Trilogy #1)
author: Trudi Canavan
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2001
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life]]> 57931617 An intimate look at the making of a man, an actor, an advocate--and most importantly--a happy human being. A wonderful book that is funny, honest, fearless, and generous in its vulnerability. --Douglas Stuart, Booker Prize-winning author of Shuggie Bain

There is absolutely no logical reason why I am here. The life trajectory my nationality and class and circumstances portended for me was not even remotely close to the one I now navigate. But logic is a science and living is an art.

The release I felt in writing my first memoir, Not My Father's Son, was matched only by how my speaking out empowered so many to engage with their own trauma. I was reminded of the power of my words and the absolute duty of authenticity.

But...

No one ever fully recovers from their past. There is no cure for it. You just learn to manage and prioritize it. I believe the second you feel you have triumphed or overcome something - an abuse, an injury to the body or the mind, an addiction, a character flaw, a habit, a person - you have merely decided to stop being vigilant and embraced denial as your modus operandi. And that is what this book is about, and for: to remind you not to buy in to the Hollywood ending.

Ironically maybe, much of Baggage chronicles my life in Hollywood and how, since I recovered from a nervous breakdown at 28, work has repeatedly whisked me away from personal calamities to sets and stages around the world. It is also about marriage(s): starting with the break-up of my first (to a woman) and ending with the ascension to my second (to a man) with many kissed toads in between! But in everything, each failed relationship or encounter with a legend (Liza! X Men! Gore Vidal! Kubrick! Spice Girls!), in every bad decision or moment of sensual joy I have endeavored to show what I have learned and how I've become who I am today: a happy, flawed, vulnerable, fearless middle-aged man, with a lot of baggage.]]> 288 Alan Cumming 0062435787 Hattie 4 3.93 2021 Baggage: Tales from a Fully Packed Life
author: Alan Cumming
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/09/12
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]]> <![CDATA[Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)]]> 60475094
There are whisperings of a prophecy that will bring the coven to its knees, and five best friends are about to be caught at the centre. Life as a modern witch was never simple � but now it’s about to get apocalyptic.

Prepare to be bewitched by Juno Dawson’s first adult series. A story of ancient prophecies and modern dating, of sacred sisterhood and demonic frenemies.]]> 450 Juno Dawson 0008478503 Hattie 4 3.92 2022 Her Majesty's Royal Coven (Her Majesty's Royal Coven, #1)
author: Juno Dawson
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/08/25
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]]> <![CDATA[The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)]]> 33080122
Elma York’s experience as a WASP pilot and mathematician earns her a place in the International Aerospace Coalition’s attempts to put man on the moon, as a calculator. But with so many skilled and experienced women pilots and scientists involved with the program, it doesn’t take long before Elma begins to wonder why they can’t go into space, too.

Elma’s drive to become the first Lady Astronaut is so strong that even the most dearly held conventions of society may not stand a chance against her.]]> 431 Mary Robinette Kowal Hattie 0 to-read 3.91 2018 The Calculating Stars (Lady Astronaut Universe, #1)
author: Mary Robinette Kowal
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1) 55078319
From New York Times bestselling author Kevin Hearne comes the start of a hugely entertaining new series set in the world of the Iron Druid Chronicles - about an eccentric master of magic solving an uncanny mystery in Scotland . . .

Al MacBharrais is both blessed and cursed. He is blessed with an extraordinary white moustache, an appreciation for craft cocktails - and a most unique magical talent. He can cast spells with magically enchanted ink and he uses his gifts to protect our world from rogue minions of various pantheons, especially the Fae.

But he is also cursed. Anyone who hears his voice will begin to feel an inexplicable hatred for Al, so he can only communicate through the written word or speech apps. And his apprentices keep dying in peculiar freak accidents. As his personal life crumbles around him, he devotes his life to his work, all the while trying to crack the secret of his curse.

But when his latest apprentice, Gordie, turns up dead in his Glasgow flat, Al discovers evidence that Gordie was living a secret life of crime. Now Al is forced to play detective - while avoiding actual detectives who are wondering why death seems to always follow Al. Investigating his apprentice's death will take him through Scotland's magical underworld, and he'll need the help of a mischievous hobgoblin if he's to survive.

Packed to the brim with mystery, magic and mayhem, Ink & Sigil is perfect for fans of Rivers of London and Rotherweird.

Praise for Ink &

'You are in for a great treat. Ink and Sigil is great escape reading, and I loved every word' Charlaine Harris, New York Times bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse books

'Will transport you right in the Scottish realm of fey and fairies . . . The magic is both familiar and new, believable and extraordinary' Charlie Holmberg, author of The Paper Magician

'Vividly blends Kevin Hearne's unique take on urban fantasy with the grit of Scottish magic' Adam Christopher, author of Empire State

'Ink & Sigil is filled to the brim with the Hearne-anigans we've all grown to love. Fans of ribald humor, literary puns and the odd hobgoblin will be enchanted by this paranormal mystery' Jaye Wells, author of the Prospero's War series]]> 372 Kevin Hearne 0356515222 Hattie 3 4.34 2020 Ink & Sigil (Ink & Sigil, #1)
author: Kevin Hearne
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)]]> 47989
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution.

Truth! Justice! Freedom!
And a Hard-boiled Egg!]]> 480 Terry Pratchett 055215430X Hattie 5 4.49 2002 Night Watch (Discworld, #29; City Watch, #6)
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2002
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams]]> 6105931 314 Mark Carwardine 0007290721 Hattie 0 to-read 4.40 2009 Last Chance to See: In the Footsteps of Douglas Adams
author: Mark Carwardine
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.40
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]]> Clementine: Book One 58510980 Acclaimed author Tillie Walden enters the world of Robert Kirkman's THE WALKING DEAD as 17-year-old Clementine must learn the difference between living and surviving in this intimate, coming-of-age YA graphic novel trilogy.

FROM THE WORLD OF ROBERT KIRKMAN'S THE WALKING DEAD...
...CLEMENTINE LIVES!

Clementine is back on the road, looking to put her traumatic past behind her and forge new path all her own.

But when she comes across an Amish teenager named Amos with his head in the clouds, the unlikely pair journeys North to an abandoned ski resort in Vermont, where they meet up with a small group of teenagers attempting to build a new, walker-free settlement.

As friendship, rivalry, and romance begin to blossom amongst the group, the harsh winter soon reveals that the biggest threat to their survival...might be each other.

A coming-of-age tale of survival written and illustrated by two-time Eisner award-winner Tillie Walden (Spinning, On a Sunbeam).]]> 259 Tillie Walden Hattie 0 to-read 3.56 2022 Clementine: Book One
author: Tillie Walden
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.56
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]]> <![CDATA[A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction]]> 17278807 A Slip of the Keyboard brings together for the first time the finest examples of Pratchett's non fiction writing, both serious and surreal: from musings on mushrooms to what it means to be a writer (and why banana daiquiris are so important); from memories of Granny Pratchett to speculation about Gandalf's love life, and passionate defences of the causes dear to him.

With all the humour and humanity that have made his novels so enduringly popular, this collection brings Pratchett out from behind the scenes of the Discworld to speak for himself - man and boy, bibliophile and computer geek, champion of hats, orang-utans and Dignity in Dying.]]> 315 Terry Pratchett 0857521225 Hattie 5 4.22 2014 A Slip of the Keyboard: Collected Non-Fiction
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> <![CDATA[A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)]]> 40864030
They hope to find the answers they seek, while making new friends, learning new concepts, and experiencing the entropic nature of the universe.

Becky Chambers's new series continues to ask: in a world where people have what they want, does having more even matter?

They're going to need to ask it a lot.]]> 152 Becky Chambers Hattie 5
Ok fine notes, just another really nice hopepunk (? Opposite of grimdark) future with some real deep Qs on what it means to need something, and how to go about life looking for that. And how hard that can be. I love Mosscap and Dex, real good folks]]> 4.40 2022 A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Monk & Robot, #2)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.40
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rating: 5
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5 stars, no notes, Becky Chambers perfect as always!

Ok fine notes, just another really nice hopepunk (? Opposite of grimdark) future with some real deep Qs on what it means to need something, and how to go about life looking for that. And how hard that can be. I love Mosscap and Dex, real good folks
]]> One Last Stop 54860443
But then, there’s this gorgeous girl on the train.

Jane. Dazzling, charming, mysterious, impossible Jane. Jane with her rough edges and swoopy hair and soft smile, showing up in a leather jacket to save August’s day when she needed it most. August’s subway crush becomes the best part of her day, but pretty soon, she discovers there’s one big problem: Jane doesn’t just look like an old school punk rocker. She’s literally displaced in time from the 1970s, and August is going to have to use everything she tried to leave in her own past to help her. Maybe it’s time to start believing in some things, after all.

Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop is a magical, sexy, big-hearted romance where the impossible becomes possible as August does everything in her power to save the girl lost in time.]]> 418 Casey McQuiston 1250244498 Hattie 5 3.90 2021 One Last Stop
author: Casey McQuiston
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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An excellent good fun lesbian time travel romance!
]]> <![CDATA[I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life]]> 33295210 SHORTLISTED FOR THE WELLCOME BOOK PRIZE 2017 AND THE ROYAL SOCIETY INSIGHT INVESTMENT SCIENCE BOOK PRIZE 2017


THE NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

Your body is teeming with tens of trillions of microbes. It’s an entire world, a colony full of life.

In other words, you contain multitudes.

They sculpt our organs, protect us from diseases, guide our behaviour, and bombard us with their genes. They also hold the key to understanding all life on earth.

In I Contain Multitudes, Ed Yong opens our eyes and invites us to marvel at ourselves and other animals in a new light, less as individuals and more as thriving ecosystems.

You'll never think about your mind, body or preferences in the same way again.

'Super-interesting... He just keeps imparting one surprising, fascinating insight after the next. I Contain Multitudes is science journalism at its best' Bill Gates]]> 354 Ed Yong 1784700177 Hattie 4 biology-book-club 4.23 2016 I Contain Multitudes: The Microbes Within Us and a Grander View of Life
author: Ed Yong
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> Bargain Bin Rom-Com 61134971 80 Leena Norms 1913958299 Hattie 0 currently-reading 4.22 Bargain Bin Rom-Com
author: Leena Norms
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.22
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]]> <![CDATA[Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)]]> 50049417
In a post-apocalyptic America, a community survives in a national park, surrounded by water that keeps the Dead at bay. But when winter comes, there's nothing to stop them from crossing the ice.

Then homebody Peter puts the camp in danger by naively allowing a stranger to come ashore and he's forced to leave the community of Wranglestone. Now he must help rancher Cooper, the boy he's always watched from afar, herd the Dead from their shores before the lake freezes over.

But as love blossoms, a dark discovery reveals the sanctuary's secret past. One that forces the pair to question everything they've ever known.

An action-packed and thought-provoking debut, for fans of Patrick Ness, Marcus Sedgwick, DREAD NATION and The Walking Dead.]]> 384 Darren Charlton Hattie 0 to-read 3.51 2020 Wranglestone (Wranglestone, #1)
author: Darren Charlton
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.51
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television]]> 52211699
In Gotta Get Theroux This, Louis takes the reader on a joyous journey through his life and unexpectedly successful career. Nervously accepting the BBC's offer of his own series, he went on to create an award-winning documentary style that has seen him immersed in worlds as diverse as racist US militias and secretive pro-wrestlers, the violent gangs of Johannesburg and extreme drinkers in London.

Arguably his biggest challenge was corralling celebrities in his When Louis Met series, with Jimmy Savile proving most elusive. Blindsided when the revelations about Savile came to light, Louis was to reflect again on the nature of evil he had spent decades uncovering.

Filled with wry observation, larger-than-life characters, and self-deprecating humour, this is Louis at his insightful and honest best.]]> 416 Louis Theroux 1509880364 Hattie 4 But then lots about his start in journalism and the weird things he’s been part off]]> 3.82 2019 Gotta Get Theroux This: My Life and Strange Times in Television
author: Louis Theroux
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2019
rating: 4
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Considering I’ve never actually seen a Louis Theroux weird weekend, actually a very interesting book! A lot about his experience with Jimmy Saville, both while he was filming and then after the whole Yewtree affair. Which is understandable as it’s what the book was originally going to be
But then lots about his start in journalism and the weird things he’s been part off
]]> The Anomaly 57873456
One flight. One impossible event. Countless lives changed forever...

Everyone on the flight that day had been leading a double life.

Blake: a family man/an assassin for hire.
Joanna: a formidable lawyer/an insecure woman.
Slimboy: a promiscuous, straight rapper/a closeted gay man.

When their flight from Paris to New York encountered a terrifying, unexpected bout of turbulence, they all feared for those lives. So upon landing safely, they are happy to put the flight behind them, and continue as normal.

The events that follow, however, are anything but normal. For not one plane emerged from the storm - but two.

Everyone on the flight that day thought they had been leading a double life. They were wrong - until now.

And as they prepare to meet their doubles, they must ask themselves:

Can you ever truly be yourself, if there are two of you?]]> 328 Hervé Le Tellier 0241540488 Hattie 5 3.69 2020 The Anomaly
author: Hervé Le Tellier
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2020
rating: 5
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Really quite weird, and I’m not sure I 100% understand it, but really very good! Very necessary to read the blurb so you understand what’s going on in the first half, but actually it does kinda work with so many characters
]]> <![CDATA[Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)]]> 40953854 This is a collector's edition with an exclusive letter from the author and six stunning full-colour character portraits.

Criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker is offered a chance at a deadly heist: break into the Ice Court - a military stronghold that has never been breached - and retrieve a hostage whose knowledge could change Grisha magic forever. To succeed would mean rich beyond his wildest dreams - but he can't pull it off alone . . .

A convict with a thirst for revenge.
A sharpshooter who can't walk away from a wager.
A runaway with a privileged past.
A spy known as the Wraith.
A Heartrender using her magic to survive the slums.
A thief with a gift for unlikely escapes.

Six dangerous outcasts. One impossible heist. Together they might just be unstoppable - if they don't kill each other first.]]> 494 Leigh Bardugo 1510106286 Hattie 0 to-read 4.62 2015 Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.62
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short]]> 30027064 After the events of Dirk Gently s Holistic Detective Agency and The Long Dark Tea Time, but prior to the detective s relocation to California in The Interconnectedness of All Kings, Dirk finds himself investigating a bizarre case of poaching, dumbstruck tourists, and the inner membranes of a rhinoceros nose."]]> 120 Arvind Ethan David 1631407015 Hattie 4 3.57 2016 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: A Spoon Too Short
author: Arvind Ethan David
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2016
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Interconnectedness of All Kings]]> 26779709 In his first-ever comic series, Dirk has been forced to leave his beloved England behind, coming to the too-sunny, too-cheery, and altogether too-bizarre-even-for-Dirk city of San Diego, California, where he gets embroiled in three separate (or are they?) cases involving reincarnated Egyptians, golden cell phones, and copycat killers. All this in a new town seemingly incapable of making even a single proper cup of tea.]]> 120 Chris Ryall 163140508X Hattie 4 3.65 2013 Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency: The Interconnectedness of All Kings
author: Chris Ryall
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2013
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Doctor Who: The Fountains of Forever]]> 25387789
The all-new comics adventures of the Tenth Doctor, as played by David Tennant, have become a critically-acclaimed fixture in the lives of fans since their launch in July 2014 - this third volume brings the first, fifteen-issue storyline to a stunning season finale!

The Tenth Doctor and Gabby Gonzalez are back for a rip-roaring cosmic adventure that takes them from the conspiracy-ridden streets of New York to the hidden center of the galaxy... and beyond!]]> 136 Nick Abadzis 1782763023 Hattie 3 3.61 2015 Doctor Who: The Fountains of Forever
author: Nick Abadzis
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2015
rating: 3
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Eh I know it’s a classic, Egyptian gods are aliens, but meh. Didn’t really like the story, didn’t think the Doctor was particularly Doctor
]]> Doctor Who: Men of War 36501613 1 Justin Richards 1787531279 Hattie 0 3.76 2018 Doctor Who: Men of War
author: Justin Richards
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)]]> 57282218
Persephone, young goddess of spring, is new to Olympus. Her mother, Demeter, has raised her in the mortal realm, but after Persephone promises to train as a sacred virgin, she’s allowed to live in the fast-moving, glamorous world of the gods. When her roommate, Artemis, takes her to a party, her entire life changes: she ends up meeting Hades and feels an immediate spark with the charming yet misunderstood ruler of the Underworld. Now Persephone must navigate the confusing politics and relationships that rule Olympus, while also figuring out her own place—and her own power.

This edition of Smythe’s original Eisner-winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story, and brings the Greek Pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

This volume collects episodes 1-25 of the #1 WEBTOON comic, Lore Olympus.]]> 384 Rachel Smythe 0593160290 Hattie 4 4.23 2021 Lore Olympus: Volume One (Lore Olympus, #1)
author: Rachel Smythe
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Ferment: Slow Down, Make Food to Last]]> 58739555
From Ferment is the no-nonsense guide to fermenting at home.

From homemade kimchi to kombucha, shrub cocktails, and making your own pickles, award-winning food writer Mark Diacono tells the story of fermentation, and offers recipes that maximize the transformative power of this amazing process.

From Ferment offers a gentle guiding hand on a natural process that would happen without you, encouraging largely invisible activity of bacteria to work to your advantage. These skills take little of your time, they are particular yet simple, and the results are extraordinary.

Packed with useful, accessible information and focusing on back-to-basics skills, the From Scratch series is designed to inspire you to slow down and create. Titles Sourdough, Brew, Charcuterie .

Text is extracted and updated from Sour , with new recipes, by Mark Diacono.]]> 176 Mark Diacono 1787138348 Hattie 0 to-read 0.0 Ferment: Slow Down, Make Food to Last
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]]> Microbe Hunters 582171
An international bestseller, translated into eighteen languages, Paul de Kruif’s classic account of the first scientists to see and learn about the microscopic world continues to fascinate new readers. This is a timeless dramatization of the scientists, bacteriologists, doctors, and medical technicians who discovered the microbes and invented the vaccines to counter them. De Kruif writes about how seemingly simple but really fundamental discovers of science—for instance, how a microbe was first viewed in a clear drop of rain water, and when, for the first time, Louis Pasteur discovered that a simple vaccine could save a man from the ravages of rabies by attacking the microbes that cause it.
]]> 372 Paul de Kruif 0156027771 Hattie 0 to-read 4.13 1926 Microbe Hunters
author: Paul de Kruif
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1926
rating: 0
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]]> On a Sunbeam 41433658
Throughout the deepest reaches of space, a crew rebuilds beautiful and broken-down structures, painstakingly putting the past together. As Mia, the newest member, gets to know her team, the story flashes back to her pivotal year in boarding school, where she fell in love with a mysterious new student. When Mia grows close to her new friends, she reveals her true purpose for joining their ship—to track down her long-lost love.

An inventive world, a breathtaking love story, and stunning art come together in this new work by award-winning artist Tillie Walden.]]> 544 Tillie Walden 1910395374 Hattie 5 4.36 2018 On a Sunbeam
author: Tillie Walden
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/07
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]]> <![CDATA[Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover]]> 6503780 Winner of Fourteen Eisner Awards

When Fables Collide!
This is it - a story so grand, so epic in scale that no single series could contain it!

As the free Fables struggle to regroup following the destruction of their New York City stronghold, they are suddenly faced with a wholly new menace - one that threatens not only their adopted planet, but all of reality itself!
Against such a terrible power, can even the combined abilities of these legendary storybook heroes prevail? Only one thing is certain: once the battle is joined, the world of Fables will never be the same!
Deftly crafted by writers Bill Willingham and Matthew Sturges and artists Mark Buckingham, Russ Braun, Tony Akins, Andrew Pepoy, José Marzan, Jr. and Dan Green.

Collecting: Fables 83-85, Jack of Fables 33-35, The Literals 1-3]]> 224 Bill Willingham 1401225721 Hattie 0 currently-reading 3.43 2010 Fables, Vol. 13: The Great Fables Crossover
author: Bill Willingham
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2010
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire]]> 158988 Winner of Fourteen Eisner Awards

The best-laid plans.
The free Fables living in the mundane world have struck a decisive blow against the Adversary, destroying one of his most valuable assets at the very heart of his empire - and setting the stage for an all-out war between the worlds in the process. Now, while the ruler of the Homelands licks his wounds and gathers his forces, the denizens of Fabletown have a rare chance to savor the brief peace their victory has brought them. Everyone, however, knows that this is just the calm before the storm - and that even the winds themselves will have to choose sides before it's over.

Collecting: Fables 52-59]]> 202 Bill Willingham 1401213162 Hattie 3 4.21 2007 Fables, Vol. 9: Sons of Empire
author: Bill Willingham
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2007
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince]]> 2147714 Winner of Fourteen Eisner Awards

The return of the King.
Will all-out war looming between the forces of the Adversary and the free Fables living in the mundane world, everything now depends on a humble janitor known as Flycatcher. Released from centuries of trauma-induced amnesia, Prince Ambrose (as he was known in happier times) faces a long and difficult road - one that will take him through the lands of the dead and into the heart of the enemy's realm. Once there, this unassuming and unlikely hero will face his greatest and most arduous test - and the future of both Fabletown and the Homelands will turn on the outcome.
Featuring art by Mark Buckingham, Steve Leialoha, Aaron Alexovich and Andrew Pepoy.

Collecting: Fables 60-69]]> 240 Bill Willingham 1401216862 Hattie 4 4.37 2008 Fables, Vol. 10: The Good Prince
author: Bill Willingham
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2008
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages]]> 5973711 Winner of Fourteen Eisner Awards

Collateral Damage
The great war between Fabletown and the mighty empire of the Adversary is over, and the victorious free Fables have brought their defeated enemy back from the Homelands to join them in exile. Their celebrations, however, are destined to be short-lived. As it turns out, not even beloved storybook heroes can escape the law of unintended consequences. In the post-war chaos of the Adversary's former realm, a terrible force is about to be unleased - an evil that threatens not just Fabletown but the entire mundane world.

Collecting: Fables 76-82]]> 192 Bill Willingham 1401223168 Hattie 4 4.22 2009 Fables, Vol. 12: The Dark Ages
author: Bill Willingham
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2009
rating: 4
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]]> Circus World 1054080 196 Barry B. Longyear 0595189679 Hattie 0 to-read 4.11 1980 Circus World
author: Barry B. Longyear
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Brave New World: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation]]> 43913266 Brave New World is a searching vision of an unequal, technologically-advanced future where humans are genetically bred, socially indoctrinated, and pharmaceutically anesthetized to passively uphold an authoritarian ruling order–all at the cost of our freedom, full humanity, and perhaps also our souls. “A genius [who] who spent his life decrying the onward march of the Machine� (The New Yorker), Huxley was a man of incomparable talents: equally an artist, a spiritual seeker, and one of history’s keenest observers of human nature and civilization. Brave New World, his masterpiece, has enthralled and terrified millions of readers, and retains its urgent relevance to this day as both a warning to be heeded as we head into tomorrow and as thought-provoking, satisfying work of literature. Written in the shadow of the rise of fascism during the 1930s, Brave New Worldd likewise speaks to a 21st-century world dominated by mass-entertainment, technology, medicine and pharmaceuticals, the arts of persuasion, and the hidden influence of elites.

"Aldous Huxley is the greatest 20th century writer in English." —Chicago Tribune]]> Aldous Huxley Hattie 4 3.54 1932 Brave New World: A BBC Radio 4 Full-Cast Dramatisation
author: Aldous Huxley
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.54
book published: 1932
rating: 4
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]]> <![CDATA[The Girl Who Reads on the Métro]]> 43263671 In the vein of Amelie and The Little Paris Bookshop, a modern fairytale about a French woman whose life is turned upside down when she meets a reclusive bookseller and his young daughter.

Juliette leads a perfectly ordinary life in Paris, working a slow office job, dating a string of not-quite-right men, and fighting off melancholy. The only bright spots in her day are her metro rides across the city and the stories she dreams up about the strangers reading books across from her: the old lady, the math student, the amateur ornithologist, the woman in love, the girl who always tears up at page 247.

One morning, avoiding the office for as long as she can, Juliette finds herself on a new block, in front of a rusty gate wedged open with a book. Unable to resist, Juliette walks through, into the bizarre and enchanting lives of Soliman and his young daughter, Zaide. Before she realizes entirely what is happening, Juliette agrees to become a passeur, Soliman's name for the booksellers he hires to take stacks of used books out of his store and into the world, using their imagination and intuition to match books with readers. Suddenly, Juliette's daydreaming becomes her reality, and when Soliman asks her to move in to their store to take care of Zaide while he goes away, she has to decide if she is ready to throw herself headfirst into this new life.

Big-hearted, funny, and gloriously zany, The Girl Who Reads on the Metro is a delayed coming-of-age story about a young woman who dares to change her life, and a celebration of the power of books to unite us all.]]> 175 Christine Féret-Fleury 1250315425 Hattie 0 to-read 3.06 2017 The Girl Who Reads on the Métro
author: Christine Féret-Fleury
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.06
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death]]> 55951297
To find out, Jenny Kleeman has interviewed a sex robot, eaten a priceless lab-grown chicken nugget, watched foetuses growing in plastic bags and attended members-only meetings where people learn how to kill themselves.

Many of the people Kleeman has met say they are finding solutions to problems that have always defined and constricted humankind. But what truly motivates them? What kind of person devotes their life to building a death machine? What kind of customer is desperate to buy an artificially intelligent sex doll � and why? Who is campaigning against these advances, and how are they trying to stop them? And what about the many unintended consequences such inventions will inevitably unleash?

Sex Robots & Vegan Meat is not science fiction. It’s not about what might happen one day � it’s about what is happening right now, and who is making it happen. In the end, it asks a simple question: are we about to change what it means to be human . . . for ever?]]> 368 Jenny Kleeman 1509894926 Hattie 3 biology-book-club 3.97 2020 Sex Robots & Vegan Meat: Adventures at the Frontier of Birth, Food, Sex and Death
author: Jenny Kleeman
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2022/04/24
date added: 2022/04/24
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]]> <![CDATA[Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)]]> 59148797 The long-awaited new novel from multi best-selling Garth Nix, set in the much-loved Old Kingdom.

A thrilling, atmospheric dive into the history of the Abhorsen, featuring Sabriel’s parents, Terciel and Elinor.

In the Old Kingdom, a land of ancient and often terrible magics, eighteen year-old orphan Terciel is learning the art of necromancy but not to raise the Dead, rather to lay them to rest. He is the Abhorsen-in-Waiting, the latest in a long line of people whose task it is to make sure the Dead do not return to Life.

Across the Wall in Ancelstierre, a steam-age country where magic usually does not work, nineteen year-old Elinor lives a secluded life, her only friends an old governess and an even older groom who was once a famous circus performer. Her mother is a tyrant, feared by all despite her sickness and impending death�

Elinor does not know she is deeply connected to the Old Kingdom, until a plot by an ancient enemy of the Abhorsens brings Terciel to Ancelstierre.

In a single day of fire and death and loss, Elinor finds herself set on a path which will take her into the Old Kingdom, into Terciel’s life and will embroil her in the struggle of the Abhorsens against the Dead who will not stay dead.]]> 409 Garth Nix 1471412016 Hattie 4 Also, needed more Mogget sass. ]]> 4.17 2021 Terciel and Elinor (The Old Kingdom, #6)
author: Garth Nix
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/18
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As much as I love this world and will read anything set in it, (and apparently it’s the only Garth Nix stuff I really like), and as much as love backstory, I’m not sure that this really added anything to the characters. I like the history, but poor Elinor becoming yet another orphan in this series, and I’m not sure I’m bothered by the romance. And she’s a Clayr?! I’m not sure that’s necessary
Also, needed more Mogget sass.
]]> <![CDATA[Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)]]> 57931850
It's the end of the roaring twenties, and the exuberant and Honourable Phryne Fisher is dancing and gaming with gay abandon. But she becomes bored with London and the endless round of parties. In search of excitement, she sets her sights on a spot of detective work in Melbourne, Australia. And so mystery and the beautiful Russian dancer, Sasha de Lisse, appear in her life. From then on it's all cocaine and communism until her adventure reaches its steamy end in the Turkish baths of Little Lonsdale Street.]]> Kerry Greenwood Hattie 4 3.79 1989 Cocaine Blues (Phryne Fisher, #1)
author: Kerry Greenwood
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.79
book published: 1989
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/16
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]]> <![CDATA[Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3)]]> 57758551 Carry On, Simon Snow and his friends realized that everything they thought they understood about the world might be wrong. And in Wayward Son, they wondered whether everything they understood about themselves might be wrong.

In Any Way the Wind Blows, Simon and Baz and Penelope and Agatha have to decide how to move forward.

For Simon, that means deciding whether he still wants to be part of the World of Mages -- and if he doesn't, what does that mean for his relationship with Baz? Meanwhile Baz is bouncing between two family crises and not finding any time to talk to anyone about his newfound vampire knowledge. Penelope would love to help, but she's smuggled a cursed American Normal into London, and now she isn't sure what to do with him. And Agatha? Well, Agatha Wellbelove has had enough.

Any Way the Wind Blows takes the gang back to England, back to Watford, and back to their families for their longest and most emotionally wrenching adventure yet.

This book is a finale. It tells secrets and answers questions and lays ghosts to rest.

Carry On was conceived as a book about Chosen One stories; Any Way the Wind Blows is an ending about endings. About catharsis and closure, and how we choose to move on from the traumas and triumphs that try to define us.]]> 579 Rainbow Rowell 1529039908 Hattie 5 4.17 2021 Any Way the Wind Blows (Simon Snow, #3)
author: Rainbow Rowell
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/04/04
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Well I read nearly 600 pages in one sitting so it’s certainly a good easy read! A pretty satisfying conclusion to the trilogy actually.
]]> Space Opera (Space Opera, #1) 24100285
A century ago, the Sentience Wars tore the galaxy apart and nearly ended the entire concept of intelligent space-faring life. In the aftermath, a curious tradition was invented-something to cheer up everyone who was left and bring the shattered worlds together in the spirit of peace, unity, and understanding.

Once every cycle, the civilizations gather for the Metagalactic Grand Prix - part gladiatorial contest, part beauty pageant, part concert extravaganza, and part continuation of the wars of the past. Instead of competing in orbital combat, the powerful species that survived face off in a competition of song, dance, or whatever can be physically performed in an intergalactic talent show. The stakes are high for this new game, and everyone is forced to compete.

This year, though, humankind has discovered the enormous universe. And while they expected to discover a grand drama of diplomacy, gunships, wormholes, and stoic councils of aliens, they have instead found glitter, lipstick and electric guitars. Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny - they must sing.

A one-hit-wonder band of human musicians, dancers and roadies from London - Decibel Jones and the Absolute Zeroes - have been chosen to represent Earth on the greatest stage in the galaxy. And the fate of their species lies in their ability to rock.]]> 294 Catherynne M. Valente 1472115074 Hattie 3 3.45 2018 Space Opera (Space Opera, #1)
author: Catherynne M. Valente
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.45
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/27
date added: 2022/04/02
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I dunno, I loved the concept, it’s Eurovision in space what’s not to love ?! but I just couldn’t get on with the writing? I don’t not what it was tho. Like I finished it but it just fell a little flat for me
]]> <![CDATA[The Left-Handed Booksellers of London]]> 55967652 0 Garth Nix 0655692886 Hattie 3 3.91 2020 The Left-Handed Booksellers of London
author: Garth Nix
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2020
rating: 3
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]]> <![CDATA[The Darkest Bloom (Shadowscent, #1)]]> 41726812
When disaster strikes and the crown prince lies poisoned, long suppressed rivalries threaten to blow the empire apart. It’s up to a poor village girl with a talent for fragrances and the prince’s loyal bodyguard to find an antidote.

To succeed, the pair must uncover secrets � cryptic, ancient tales as well as buried truths from their own pasts � in an adventure that will ignite your senses.]]> 448 P.M. Freestone Hattie 0 to-read 3.69 2019 The Darkest Bloom (Shadowscent, #1)
author: P.M. Freestone
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Rose 37956515
Discover the new Doctor Who classics.

“Nice to meet you, Rose. Run for your life!�

In a lair somewhere beneath central London, a malevolent alien intelligence is plotting the end of humanity. Shop window dummies that can move � and kill � are taking up key positions, ready to strike.

Rose Tyler, an ordinary Londoner, is working her shift in a department store, unaware that this is the most important day of her life. She’s about to meet the only man who understands the true nature of the threat facing Earth, a stranger who will open her eyes to all the wonder and terror of the universe � a traveller in time and space known as the Doctor.]]> 197 Russell T. Davies 178594326X Hattie 4 4.32 2018 Rose
author: Russell T. Davies
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2018
rating: 4
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Excellent short read. Gives some more insight to that first episode, and hints of things to come.
]]> The Sentence 57576425 In this stunning and timely novel, Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award-winning author Louise Erdrich creates a wickedly funny ghost story, a tale of passion, of a complex marriage, and of a woman's relentless errors.

Louise Erdrich's latest novel, The Sentence, asks what we owe to the living, the dead, to the reader and to the book. A small independent bookstore in Minneapolis is haunted from November 2019 to November 2020 by the store's most annoying customer. Flora dies on All Souls' Day, but she simply won't leave the store. Tookie, who has landed a job selling books after years of incarceration that she survived by reading with murderous attention, must solve the mystery of this haunting while at the same time trying to understand all that occurs in Minneapolis during a year of grief, astonishment, isolation, and furious reckoning.

The Sentence begins on All Souls' Day 2019 and ends on All Souls' Day 2020. Its mystery and proliferating ghost stories during this one year propel a narrative as rich, emotional, and profound as anything Louise Erdrich has written.]]> 382 Louise Erdrich 0062671146 Hattie 0 to-read 4.09 2021 The Sentence
author: Louise Erdrich
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> Knit One, Girl Two 35053703 68 Shira Glassman Hattie 5 3.95 2017 Knit One, Girl Two
author: Shira Glassman
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2018/09/25
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]]> The Constant Rabbit 51801337 United Kingdom Against Rabbit Population), complicating Peter's job as a Rabbit Spotter, and forcing him to take a stand, moving from unconscious leporiphobe to active supporter of the UK's amiable and peaceful population of anthropomorphised rabbits.]]> 307 Jasper Fforde 1444763628 Hattie 5 4.03 2020 The Constant Rabbit
author: Jasper Fforde
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/27
date added: 2022/02/27
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Fforde is, as always, a craftsman and a genius. The storytelling is top notch and the plot so perfectly crafted, got a bit weepy at the end even!
]]> <![CDATA[My Brother's Husband, All Volumes (Otouto no Otto, #1-4)]]> 45754737
(Please note: This book is a traditional work of manga, and reads back to front and right to left.)]]> 704 Gengoroh Tagame 0375715185 Hattie 0 to-read 4.60 2014 My Brother's Husband, All Volumes (Otouto no Otto, #1-4)
author: Gengoroh Tagame
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)]]> 53317427
Harrow the Ninth , the New York Times and USA Today bestselling sequel to Gideon the Ninth , turns a galaxy inside out as one necromancer struggles to survive the wreckage of herself aboard the Emperor's haunted space station.

“Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space! Decadent nobles vie to serve the deathless emperor! Skeletons!� ―Charles Stross on Gideon the Ninth

“Unlike anything I've ever read.� ―V.E. Schwab on Gideon the Ninth

“Deft, tense and atmospheric, compellingly immersive and wildly original.� � The New York Times on Gideon the Ninth

She answered the Emperor's call.

She arrived with her arts, her wits, and her only friend.

In victory, her world has turned to ash.

After rocking the cosmos with her deathly debut, Tamsyn Muir continues the story of the penumbral Ninth House in Harrow the Ninth , a mind-twisting puzzle box of mystery, murder, magic, and mayhem. Nothing is as it seems in the halls of the Emperor, and the fate of the galaxy rests on one woman's shoulders.

Harrowhark Nonagesimus, last necromancer of the Ninth House, has been drafted by her Emperor to fight an unwinnable war. Side-by-side with a detested rival, Harrow must perfect her skills and become an angel of undeath―but her health is failing, her sword makes her nauseous, and even her mind is threatening to betray her.

Sealed in the gothic gloom of the Emperor's Mithraeum with three unfriendly teachers, hunted by the mad ghost of a murdered planet, Harrow must confront two unwelcome questions: is somebody trying to kill her? And if they succeeded, would the universe be better off?

THE LOCKED TOMB SERIES
BOOK 1: Gideon the Ninth
BOOK 2: Harrow the Ninth
BOOK 3: Nona the Ninth
BOOK 4: Alecto the Ninth]]> 556 Tamsyn Muir 125031321X Hattie 4 4.38 2020 Harrow the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #2)
author: Tamsyn Muir
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/25
date added: 2022/02/25
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Boy do I still have a lot of questions! I was very confused for like 2 thirds of it but it all came together at the end, well most of it came together at least. I’m still invested and want to know where this is all going at least
]]> The Vorrh 24903234 512 Brian Catling 1473606616 Hattie 0 to-read 3.67 2012 The Vorrh
author: Brian Catling
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.67
book published: 2012
rating: 0
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]]> <![CDATA[Gather the Fortunes (Crescent City Book 2)]]> 46031299 The exciting sequel to the stunning debut, The City of Lost Fortunes by Bryan Camp.

Renaissance Raines has found her place among the psychopomps � the guides who lead the souls of the recently departed through the Seven Gates of the Underworld � and done her best to avoid the notice of gods and mortals alike. But when a young boy named Ramses St. Cyr manages to escape his foretold death, Renaissance finds herself at the center of a deity-thick plot unfolding in New Orleans. Someone helped Ramses slip free of his destined end � someone willing to risk everything to steal a little slice of power for themselves.

Is it one of the storm gods that’s descended on the city? The death god who’s locked the Gates of the Underworld? Or the manipulative sorcerer who also cheated Death? When she finds the schemer, there’s gonna be all kinds of hell to pay, because there are scarier things than death in the Crescent City. Renaissance Raines is one of them.

]]> 599 Bryan Camp 1789091225 Hattie 0 to-read 4.18 2019 Gather the Fortunes (Crescent City Book 2)
author: Bryan Camp
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> Jacky Daydream 25122305


Jacqueline takes a look back at her own childhood and teenage years in this captivating story of friendships, loneliness, books, family life and much more. She explores her past with the same warmth and lightness of touch that make her novels so special. Best of all, she reveals how she was always determined to be a writer; from the very first story she wrote, it was clear that this little girl had a very vivid imagination! But who would've guessed that she would grow up to be the mega-bestselling, award-winning Jacqueline Wilson?]]> 0 Jacqueline Wilson 1486247857 Hattie 3 The audio read by the author is always especially good for a biography, and I’m glad to say she sang the songs where appropriate
So interesting read all round but I would like to know more]]> 3.00 2007 Jacky Daydream
author: Jacqueline Wilson
name: Hattie
average rating: 3.00
book published: 2007
rating: 3
read at: 2022/02/18
date added: 2022/02/18
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So it’s on me for not realising this was aimed at her usual age group, but I wanna know what happened the rest of her life! Got a Lottie bored of the ridiculous detail she goes into on little things from her childhood, tho impressed that she remembers so well!
The audio read by the author is always especially good for a biography, and I’m glad to say she sang the songs where appropriate
So interesting read all round but I would like to know more
]]> <![CDATA[A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future]]> 53916142 See the world. Then make it better.

I am 94. I've had an extraordinary life. It's only now that I appreciate how extraordinary.

As a young man, I felt I was out there in the wild, experiencing the untouched natural world - but it was an illusion. The tragedy of our time has been happening all around us, barely noticeable from day to day - the loss of our planet's wild places, its biodiversity.

I have been witness to this decline. A Life on Our Planet is my witness statement, and my vision for the future. It is the story of how we came to make this, our greatest mistake - and how, if we act now, we can yet put it right.

We have one final chance to create the perfect home for ourselves and restore the wonderful world we inherited.

All we need is the will to do so.]]> 272 David Attenborough 1538719983 Hattie 4 4.51 2020 A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future
author: David Attenborough
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.51
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/02/08
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]]> <![CDATA[The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)]]> 54727327
At the Five-Hop One-Stop, long-haul spacers can stretch their legs (if they have legs, that is), and get fuel, transit permits, and assorted supplies. The Five-Hop is run by an enterprising alien and her sometimes helpful child, who work hard to provide a little piece of home to everyone passing through.

When a freak technological failure halts all traffic to and from Gora, three strangers—all different species with different aims—are thrown together at the Five-Hop. Grounded, with nothing to do but wait, the trio—an exiled artist with an appointment to keep, a cargo runner at a personal crossroads, and a mysterious individual doing her best to help those on the fringes—are compelled to confront where they’ve been, where they might go, and what they are, or could be, to each other.]]> 325 Becky Chambers 1473647665 Hattie 5 I love Speaker, she’s the best. ]]> 4.42 2021 The Galaxy, and the Ground Within (Wayfarers, #4)
author: Becky Chambers
name: Hattie
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2022/02/06
date added: 2022/02/06
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Absolutely stellar book, lots of interesting world building, not as slow as book 3, some nice stuff about some of the races we’ve not heard much about. And some gentle mocking of the humans.
I love Speaker, she’s the best.
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