'I was sorry to leave the pre-fab,' he continued stoically, 'but since Mags went, well... didn't need so much space. Got a bedsit, now. You know.'
At the height of the Arthur C. Clarke shortlisting, I rather dropped out of the habit of blogging my reading of the older Doctor Who novels here; I don't have Thoughts about very many of them, but I may revisit one or two in days to come. Anyway, new term, time to start again perhaps with this story uniting the Sixth Doctor and the Brigadier in investigating the true facts of alien involvement in the death of Adolf Hitler. It's generally well-researched, but there is a little bit of a sense of historical box-ticking, and a particularly egregious fridging at the end.
Current Les Misérables, by Victor Hugo Aurora, by Kim Stanley Robinson The Ancient Languages of Europe, by Roger D. Woodard
Last books finished Girls in Love, by Jacqueline Wilson The End of All Things, by John Scalzi (did not finish) The Shadow in the Glass, by Justin Richards and Stephen Cole It's A Good Life, If You Don't Weaken, by Seth The Redbreast, by Jo Nesbø The Wild Reel, by Paul Brandon (did not finish) The Sleep of Reason, by Martin Day Tempest by Christopher Bulis
Next books Americanah, by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie The Unlimited Dream Company, by J. G. Ballard