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The Grace Year
The New Voices of Science Fiction
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Engineering Animals: How Life Works
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125/314pages
The Rise of Yeast: How the Sugar Fungus Shaped Civilization
Conservation of Shadows
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22%
Le premier jour
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180/496pages
Moby-Dick: or, The Whale (Penguin Classics)
Manifold: Time
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The Long War
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The Snake, the Crocodile and the Dog by Elizabeth Peters
Series: Amelia Peabody #7
As I stated in my previous update, it may have been a mistake to jump to the seventh book directly after the first. It’s possible that I would have been more invested in the characters and more lenient with some of the narrative twists and turns that presented themselves. But then again, maybe not.
The shenanigans in this book included an amnesia subplot and a lot of running around Egypt being attacked by a mysterious enemy. The ending was rather ridiculous. I’m not sure if I’ll be wanting to revisit Peabody’s world or not in the future. The master criminal angle was a bit much.
The cat, Anubis, was the highlight of the book.
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