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Sunday 18th June 2023

The Mortal Sickness

Lydmouth #2

Author : Andrew Taylor

Summary :
Everyday village murder mystery
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 18 Jun 2023

Review Summary :
Simple and quite well told but the milieu is unconvincing

A bit Midsommer Murders-ery

Filled with tropes of 1950s English village life (is Lydmouth a large village or a small town - and given its name where is the sea?) and a fairly unconvncing plot. Some of the characters are entertaining (the reporter and the detective) but others are somewhat overdrawn (the mad woman and the laird) or just weak (the vicar and his wife).



Thursday 1st June 2023

1988

The Bean Trees

Author : Barbara Kingsolver

Summary :
Young woman escapes from life in Oklahoma and is given an indian baby on the way - they end up in Arizona
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Reviewed by Roger CO, on 01 Jun 2023

Review Summary :
Social realism of the Southern States

Nice slice of flyover life

Shit happens and you just get on with it. A story of resilience in the face of everyday life



Monday 29th May 2023

Original Language: Polish mins

The Rabbit Factor

Author : Antti Tuomainen

Summary :
Mathematician looses job in insurance and inherits an amusement park
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Rated by Roger CO, on 29 May 2023

Review Summary :
Comedy and gangsters with a bemused statistician


Monday 22nd May 2023

Moving Pictures

Discworld 10

Author : Terry Pratchett

Summary :
Riffing on Holywood and celebrity culture
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Rated by Roger CO, on 22 May 2023



Saturday 29th April 2023

2021

The Dawn of Everything

A new view of the history of humanity

Authors : David Graeber, David Wengrow

Summary :
An interpretation of the latest thinkingin human deep history and archaeology. It is not all an inevitable story of progress from cave to today - different ways were possible and can still be achieved.
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Reviewed by rogerco, on 29 Apr 2023

Review Summary :
1. Freedom to Move 2. Freedom to Refuse an Order 3. Freedom to Create New Forms of Social Reality

Simple Rules Create Complex Social Systems

Societies and Civilisations differ in the ways in which they constrain the three basic human freedoms - freedom of movement (eg away from oppression), freedom of choice (eg choice to refuse to obey any order), and freedom to create any form of new social order that one can imagine.



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