Finished Mad Dogs and Englishmen recently and loved it… Year of the Intelligent Tigers arrived today but I haven’t started it yet. Proper in love with 8th Doctor, Fitz and Anji as a Tardis trio atm!
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Welcome to forum Zig.
Reading loads (I have a boring job) but sort of flipping between lots of doctor who ranges. Just finished Alien Bodies and Deceit, but currently stuck reading all of the old Doctor Who annuals, since I decided to try and go chronologically.
i hadn’t even considered the thematic/aesthetic parallels omg… that’s definitely going to be coloring my read-through now !!
Finished Combat Magicks! Probably liked it a bit less than Molten Heart overall just because it was a bit more complicated and sometimes struggled to explain things in a way that felt satisfying, but really enjoyed finally getting a novel that let the Doctor and Yaz stick together through the whole thing and there were a couple great little Thasmin moments. Gonna have to revisit this one at some point with the audiobook since Mandip actually narrates this one
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At this point, I’m reading very little, but that’s actually just a trend of the last few years. When I was growing up, I was kinda notorious for always reading, and generally having a different book every day.
These days… too many other interests, I guess. If I do start reading something, I’m still likely to finish it within the day, and I go and reread Lois McMaster Bujold’s Vorkasigan Saga every so often, as it’s a great sci-fi series.
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I adore Intelligent Tigers. The world building is so pitch perfect to me. And after i finished it the final scene had me needing to sit quietly for a while lol. Kate Orman’s character relationships are always so compelling
I just started reading Timewyrm: Genesis. And well…The feeling is completely different, especially with certain descriptions…It feels like I’m reading a fanfiction of mine.
Yeaaaah, I’m on the last timewyrm book rn and some of these are… Different…
ikr? Never thought I’d read the word “slut” in a DW novel.
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We are reading that soon for the Book Club so remember your thoughts on it to re-use there 
Oh dear, was that s-word banned? Whoops, my bad.
It’s been over 30 years since I read Genesys but I do still remember the vibe it had. It was Doctor Who being written by people who wanted the show to ‘grow up’ with them as it was no longer on TV and they were teenagers becoming young adults and, generally, were new to writing published novels (with obvious exceptions). There is a lot of ‘adult’ content in many of the early NAs, including violence and swearing.
It took a little while for them to find their feet and ‘mature’ rather than ‘be adult’. It reminds me of how Torchwood tried to stamp it’s identity on its first series. There are some excellent stories in those early days though like Exodus and Love and War.
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It’s okay - I’ve restored it. You were just quoting the book after all!
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Oh yes, I can definitely see that. I’m reading it right now and…I’m starting to get a tiny uncomfortable with certain descriptions. What in the world am I reading?
I imagine, at 15, it’s not what you’re used to from Doctor Who! The later books, generally, calm down a bit but Genesys got a bit of press attention at the time for some of it’s more salacious aspects.
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Yeah, I read genysys just a couple years ago and its still my least favorite of the VNAs (I’ve currently read 28 of them, I’m on the 29th, Strange England). In trying to be “adult” it comes off as really creepy and gross, and basically every female character is overly sexualized. The Doctor also feels weirdly out of character and I sort of got the sense that John Peel didn’t even want to be writing for Seven and Ace (the way 3&4 are constantly referenced + Ace, when listing some of her past adventures with the Doctor, talking about Paradise Towers??? which she wasn’t even in???). It’s a very bad start to the VNAs and I know people who tapped out of trying to read them after that book, but it does end up getting a lot better, I swear.
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The Paradise Towers bit was a genuine mistake on Peel’s part that no one picked up on until it was too late. There was some fudge about the TARDIS giving her the wrong memories back after the memory wipe or something.
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I just finished my reread of Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban and plan on starting Goblet of Fire soon. Today, I’ll begin reading Doctor Who: The Clockwise Man for the book club, and I’ll get to Timewyrm: Genesis as well in a few days’ time. I’m also planning on rereading The Hobbit and The Lord of the Rings (it’s been years since I last read them, and I suddenly got an itch to read them again, haha).
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