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A Storm of Swords: Part 2 Blood and Gold
If you are a big reader you may well read A Storm of Swords as one book. However, if you are like me, reading a book longer than Anna Karenina is no small undertaking. To make it easier I read Part 1...
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A Feast For Crows (Part One)
When reading A Song of Ice and Fire you soon get into the George R. R. Martin routine. Nothing happens for ages and then loads of people die. The first book of A Feast for Crows follows a similar vein...
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A Feast For Crows (Part Two)
As I mentioned in my post about part one most A Song of Ice and Fire novels follow a predictable format of not a lot happening then a bunch of people dying. Again in part two though, there were not...
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A Dance with Dragons (Part One)
A Dance with Dragons is the 5th novel in George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire series. I am in two minds about it. Some of it, especially at the start is just confusing. Sam is back at The Wall...
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The Shepherd’s Crown
So this is it then, the final Pratchett novel. Worse, it’s a Tiffany Aching novel. Pratchett comes out swinging for his final work. Perhaps it was his last chance to do something big, or perhaps he was...
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The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul is a novel by Douglas Adams. It is the second book in his Dirk Gently series. I tried reading the novel a few decades ago and never got very far, so it was nice to...
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A Dance with Dragons (Part Two)
The second half of A Dance with Dragons from George R. R. Martin’s A Song of Ice and Fire has been a long time coming. I use Audible for a lot of my function, including this, and to say Audible had...
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Tour de France 2018
It’s not been a strong start to the season for me. Sure, I knocked out my first metric tonne at the Flat n Fast 100, but at grand tour level, my performance has been lacking. My fantasy Giro team put...
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La Vuelta 2018
Vuelta a España is one of the four “grand tours” of cycling (three if you don’t count Tour de Yorkshire). It takes place each year in August/September and winds its way primarily through the...
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Blood of Elves
Blood of Elves is a fantasy fiction book by Andrzej Sapkowski. It is the first in the Witcher series and having a bunch of Audible credits I took a punt and bought the first three. I did not pay off...
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