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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Thanks Desley. That's 28 read to date :-)


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Started a Ramsey Campbell - .


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!"


Cheers, Desley. I'm making up for the time when work-life balance meant I hardly read anything.


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Started a Ramsey Campbell - The Hungry Moon."

I like Ramsey Campbell. 14 books a month is amazing!"

Cheers, Desley. I'm making up for the time when work-..."


Don't blame you - I haven't read 14 books this year!


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Finished Ramsey Campbell's Hungry Moon and posted a review - /review/show/1925761435.
Hungry Moon by Ramsey Campbell


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Read Marion Zimmer Bradley's The Shattered Chain and posted a review /review/show/1932490280.
The Shattered Chain by Marion Zimmer Bradley

Also started the sequel,


message 59: by Pam (last edited Mar 07, 2017 01:31PM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Read the follow-up to The Shattered Chain, Thendara House, and posted a review /review/show/1934827050.
Thendara House (Darkover, #13) by Marion Zimmer Bradley


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Read Thomas Burnett Swann's The Not-World and posted a review - /review/show/1934898666.
The Not-World by Thomas Burnett Swann


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments A quick read - John Gordon's The Midwinter Watch - /review/show/1936857372.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Bit behind posting my reviews. Here's a couple of Marion Zimmer Bradley collections: The Other Side of the Mirror which I reviewed here - /review/show/1946598558 and Renunciates of Darkover - sorry Å·±¦ÓéÀÖ is refusing to add the book link - review here - /review/show/1946605761.
The Other Side of the Mirror (Darkover Series) by Marion Zimmer Bradley Renunciates of Darkover (Darkover Series) by Marion Zimmer Bradley


message 63: by Pam (last edited Mar 27, 2017 04:38PM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Another catch-up and another couple of MZB, novels this time: The Spell Sword - review:
/review/show/1954206844 and The Forbidden Tower - review: /review/show/1954215831.
The Spell Sword by Marion Zimmer Bradley
The Forbidden Circle (Darkover Omnibus, #4) by Marion Zimmer Bradley


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Started a re-read of a book I loved years ago - .

Just found out he wrote a sequel also.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Had to push this book to the top of my 'stack' having worked out how to borrow ebooks from the library, as they only give 14 days to read each one!

Wool Omnibus
Review - /review/show/1961942775.
Wool Omnibus Edition (Silo, #1; Wool, #1-5) by Hugh Howey


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments A re-read of an old favourite first read as a teen - Witch World - by Andre Norton - reviewed - /review/show/1367359966
Witch World (Witch World Series 1 Estcarp Cycle, #1) by Andre Norton


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Actually I've finished one that I meant to start last October and finally got round to picking up the last couple of weeks and enjoyed; haven't yet done the review.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Started book 2 of the first/main Witch World series by Andre Norton - .


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is fantastic. Unfortunately I've been really bad at getting more books this year


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is fantastic..."


Thanks Desley. Never mind, if you are 3 ahead that's a real achievement.


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Pam wrote: "Just seen that I'm up to date with my challenge - 40 books so far."

Congratulations - I didn't even read that many last year! I'm 3 ahead so far, which is..."


I'm pleased - hopefully I can continue


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Finished book 2 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Web of the Witch World - and reviewed it - /review/show/1954248792.
Web of the Witch World (Tandem science fantasy) by Andre Norton


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Read The Spyglass File by Nathan Duncan Goodwin and reviewed it - /review/show/1765215455


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Read A Cotswold Casebook by Rebecca Tope and reviewed it - /review/show/1967530739.
A Cotswold Casebook by Rebecca Tope


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Just finished a re-read of Ariel by Steven Boyett, which this time around was rather a disappointment - /review/show/1954253265.
Ariel by Steven R. Boyett


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Forgot to mention I'm reading a crime novel set in the Victorian era, part of a series by Anne Perry -


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Alicia Ehrhardt (aliciabutcherehrhardt) | 4782 comments You are really reading a lot there, Pam. Impressive.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Alicia wrote: "You are really reading a lot there, Pam. Impressive."

Thanks Alicia. Mind you, some people in a FB group I just joined have read a lot more than me - puts my progress in the shade!


message 80: by Pam (last edited Apr 15, 2017 08:50AM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Finished the crime story by Anne Perry set in Victorian times; good evocation of setting, but ultimately the lack of conviction in the plot derails it - Resurrection Row - review: /review/show/1840405217
Resurrection Row (Charlotte & Thomas Pitt, #4) by Anne Perry


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Forgot to say I started book 3 in the Witch World series by Andre Norton, .


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Was just thinking it had been a while since an update :)


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments He he! Like it ;-)


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Whoops! For the first time this year, GReads has just told me I'm a book behind on my challenge. Trying not to feel massive pressure ;-); I'm enjoying 'Warlock of the Witch World' by Andre Norton at the moment.


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing"

Yes I know really, thanks Desley - that was a bit tongue in cheek! Have finished my current book so will review that shortly, which might put me back on target.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments As a break from fantasy and the Witch World, I'm reading a police procedural by W J Burley, part of his Wycliffe series, .


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Forgot to add, here is my review for book 4 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Warlock of the Witch World - /review/show/1954249088. Four and a half stars.
Warlock of the Witch World (Witch World Series 1 Estcarp Cycle, #4) by Andre Norton


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Pam wrote: "Desley (Cat fosterer) wrote: "Wow! As long as you are enjoying what you are reading, that's the most important thing"

Yes I know really, thanks Desley - that was a bit tongue in cheek! Have finish..."


:)


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Finished a police procedural Wycliffe and the Guilt Edged Alibi and reviewed it - /review/show/1946614275.


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Now reading a more recent fantasy novel, by Peter Brett - .


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Not too keen on The Painted Man by Peter Brett sadly - here's my review: /review/show/1987806516.
The Painted Man (Demon Cycle, #1) by Peter V. Brett


message 94: by Pam (last edited May 07, 2017 09:12AM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Better luck with Mixed Magics, a collection by Diana Wynne Jones. Reviewed it - /review/show/1993431949.
Mixed Magics (Chrestomanci, #7) by Diana Wynne Jones


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Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments How annoying is that - just added my latest book on GR and there are two massive spoilers in the description which my eyes happened to fall on. I've read about 100 pages and hadn't got to either of those big reveals yet!

Anyway, this is it - by Mary Gentle.


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Oh no, that's annoying. Hope you enjoy the book anyway


message 97: by Pam (last edited May 29, 2017 11:48AM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Thanks Desley. I'm quite enjoying it apart from the occasional pages and pages of sexual proclivities which aren't such a problem now but were near the start of the book and came across as a) rather unbelievable, b) ridiculous c) annoying when you wanted the story to get on with it. But anyway it's quite a weird alternative history (her other huge tome Ash was similar in that respect) involving an assassination plot against James I/VI.


Desley (Cat fosterer) (booktigger) | 12477 comments Sounds interesting


message 99: by Pam (last edited May 29, 2017 11:50AM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments Well, I finally finished the very long alternative history novel 1610: A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle and reviewed it - /review/show/1993500431. Had to give it 2 stars in view of the issues especially about the basic premise, and I wasn't a fan of the sadomasocism.
1610 A Sundial In A Grave by Mary Gentle


message 100: by Pam (last edited May 29, 2017 11:50AM) (new)

Pam Baddeley | 3328 comments For light relief after that, read a novella by Nathan Dylan Goodwin, part of a series - The Missing Man: A Morton Farrier Novella and reviewed it - /review/show/2013458491

Not as good as the previous book in this series which I really enjoyed - this had a big believability problem, rather like the Mary Gentle tome, but as I enjoyed it as a read till near the end I gave it 3 stars.
The Missing Man A Morton Farrier novella by Nathan Dylan Goodwin


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