What are you currently reading?

Ah, right. Sorry, missed that bit.

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You should know my MO by now :sunglasses:

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Finished the Target Storybook, and have now started Glamour Chase and am still progressing through Summer Falls.

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Today, I read the first story in Storybook 2008, and an article/chapter in The Doctor Who File.

Wanted to make sure I got a little reading in on Doctor Who Day.

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Read the Doctor Who Annual 1978 over the last few days!

My experience with the Annuals is that they’re mostly the paint-by-numbers stories that you might expect, with pretty sparse plotting and characterisation – but every so often, out of nowhere, there’s a story that blindsides you with its creativity, style and strangeness.

That was what The Sea of Faces from 1978 did for me. It was a fantastic, creepy, bizarre bit of sci-fi with a touch of philosophy about it, too. I love finding hidden gems from the past like this!

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I found this second draft of the first chapter of Vampire Science in the charity anthology Perfect Timing 1. I wonder what the book would be like if they had Grace all along. 1/5 in and it’s great fun

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Read Summer Falls and The Angel’s Kiss.

Summer Falls is sweet, but strange, and The Angel’s Kiss is… well…

Yeah.

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I tried to read Transit for about a week but never felt that I got properly into it. And because I have too much stuff I want to experience and not enough time, I finally decided to drop the book this weekend. Perhaps I’ll give it another go at some point.

I decided to begin reading Eden Rebellion instead and then move onto the next NSA for the Book Club!

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Finished Summer Falls and Other Stories wth ‘The Devil in the Smoke’.

Overall, an alright collection, if you ignore the middle entry.

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I have started this and like it. But I am in a tiered period in life and don’t have that much energy to read.

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Did you not like The Angel’s Kiss?

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It was a good story, but I was put off by the unnecessary sexualisation of every female character…

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I’m feeling the same while reading Love and War - was a sex scene with Ace really necessary!?

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I went back to my review and I realised I didn’t like it much at all!

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The NAs were still being written and read by horny single Doctor Who fans who rarely saw a lady let alone got to touch one…

It was the only place we had to get it…

:wink:

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Hey! It was the horny, grungy, violent 90s! I’ve heard it was such a wonderful decade to devour serious media!

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Slowly working my way through Mission: Impractical but I think the curse of David A McIntee is hitting again. I’ve struggled to get engaged in his prose before now and I think this is going to be another one. I wouldn’t be able to pinpoint what it is about his writing I find difficult but I know I’ve felt the same about his other books with only a few exceptions.

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I must admit I’m struggling with Love and War so far. It’s nice to meet Benny but I’m almost 40% in now and very little has happened.

(Apart from Ace getting some, that is…)

It doesn’t help that I keep getting distracted with this forum too…

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Benny is wonderful but nowadays I can’t separate book Benny from Lisa Bowerman Benny. You really need more Lisa Bowerman in your life to properly appreciate her :slight_smile: .

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We know @Tian Tian wants to “do” more Jackie Tyler!

But he really needs to “do” a lot of Benny so he will learn to like her!

Let’s all “do” Benny together!

:wink::laughing:

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