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Sunday 7th February 2016

1985

Pandaemonium

1660-1886: Coming of the Machine as Seen by Contemporary Observers

unlisted author

Rated by Roger, on 07 Feb 2016




Friday 18th December 2015

Summary :
A proxy contest between two eternal magicians in the arena of a Circus which is operated by magic ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 18 Dec 2015

Review of "The Night Circus"

Entertaining read which creates its own world (where physical magic can be practiced) set in turn of 19/20th Century. A slightly annoying and unnecessary jumping around in chronology as if the chapters had been shuffled and then re-ordered by someone who hadn't read them, but apart from that very good.



Saturday 5th December 2015

0000

The Timeless Way of Building

unlisted author

Rated by Roger, on 05 Dec 2015




Tuesday 1st December 2015

Summary :
A small bookshop in San Fransisco is one gateway to an organisation (The Unbroken Spine) of ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 01 Dec 2015

Review of "Mr Penumbra's 24 Hour Bookstore"

Enjoyable, although it gets a bit single track towards the end



Saturday 10th October 2015

Summary :
Story of Biarfan war 1967-1970 seen through eyes of middle class biafran family, twin sisters, ...

Reviewed by Roger, on 10 Oct 2015

Review of "Half of a Yellow Sun"

Excellent read. Characters good and intertwining stories well told from various points of view