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Amanda Sexton
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Scot in exile, tea-drinker and baker of cakes. Reading, cycling and running occasionally keep me functioning in between. She/her pronouns. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
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Book 65 of 2025: continuing my Murderbot journey with Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells.
Book cover shows two silhouetted people on a metal gantry overhanging what appears to be large machinery with an unknown purpose. This takes place inside a giant glass dome.
June 3, 2025 at 8:35 PM
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Book 64 of 2025: audiobook time with Artificial Condition by Martha Wells.
A humanoid robot stands on top of a space shuttle while another space ship flies overhead, with a smoke-filled amber sky as the backdrop.
June 3, 2025 at 8:32 PM
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Book 63 of 2025: the satisfying conclusion to the Newsflesh trilogy, Blackout by Mira Grant.
Book cover is a prison-style breezeblock pale grey wall. Title is in black stencil letters at the top with the author's name at the bottom in the same style. The central image is a red warning triangle with a jagged arrow pointing down, and the tagine 'when will you rise?' In red under the triangle.
June 3, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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Book 62 of 2025: continuing the Newsflesh trilogy by Mira Grant with Deadline.
A pale blue book cover with the title central on tne page in red, smeary letters to mimic handwriting drawn in blood. Blood splatter and a red heartbeat line above the title, the tagline 'The truth won't rest. Neither will the dead' underneath and then the author's name.
May 29, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Book 61 of 2025: I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman. A compelling read.
A black book cover with a 1 centimeter white border. The image inset is a woman's head and shoulders in a twilight blue, with a yellow circle over her left eye.
May 25, 2025 at 5:50 PM
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Book 60 of 2025: a re-read of a beloved old friend, Feed by Mira Grant.
A pale grey cover with the book title centred drawn in red smears to mimic blood, and bloody splodges dotted here and there. Above the title is a dripping red dot with 2 quarter arc lines drawn above it, and a box drawn around it. Tag line underneath reads The good news: we survived. The bad news: so did thry.
May 25, 2025 at 5:47 PM
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Book 59 of 2025: Displeasure Island by Alice Bell.
A small brown island in the middle of a Cerulean blue book cover, with a grey stone fort in the middle, surrounded by dark blue crashing waves.
May 22, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Book 58 of 2025: Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix. Gripping, chilling, couldn't put it down.
A black book cover with a giant red full moon looming behind the silhouette of a 3-storey mansion. Each house window is back-lit with the red moonlight, and the red continues dripping down from the bottom of the house down the bottom half of the page. The book title is in large white print across the red dripping, and the author name in black above the house.
May 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Book 57 of 2025: The Only One Left by Riley Sager. An OK read, twisty but unsurprising.
A mansion house atop a steep, sheer cliff with a red sky above. Book author in dark blue across the top of the cover, and the book title in large white letters across the mansion and cliff.
May 14, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Book 56 of 2025: the audiobook of She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
A vibrant reddish-orange book cover with a golden Chinese dragon snaking down the page. Book title superimposed in black across the dragon
May 14, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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Book 55 of 2024: Vera Wong's Guide to Snooping (On a Dead Man) by Jessie Sutanto. Cosy crime with a side order of humour. Recommended.
A bright yellow book cover with a white and blue teapot with steam pouring outi
May 13, 2025 at 9:50 PM
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Book 54 of 2025: Headhunters by Jo Nesbo. A re-read for my book group, didn't remember enjoying this the first time around, and nothing changed. Full of dislikeable characters and far-fetched storylines. I was not a fan!
Image of a silhouetted man at the end of a long wooden platform looking out over mist-covered hills. Author name at the top of the page in bright white and the book title near the bottom in red.
May 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
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I'm re-reading Headhunters by Jo Nesbo for a book group, and listening to She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
May 5, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Book 53 of 2025: cosy crime with The Garden Club Murders by Jonathan Whitelaw
A purple book cover with a large red garden fork and spade crossed over each other with the book title superimposed in white on top of the image.
May 2, 2025 at 5:42 PM
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Book 52 of 2025: The Only Light Left Burning by Erik J Brown.
Book cover had a stormy purple and pink sky with a huge lightning bolt striking down between two decaying buildings. The building to the left has a large light-up sign with the book title displayed, and a much smaller building to the right has a silhouetted male couple sat next to each other watching the storm drawing closer.
April 27, 2025 at 9:30 PM
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Book 51 of 2025: Dark Eden by Chris Beckett. A re-read for my sci-fi book group next week. I read this over 10 years ago, and I don't remember enjoying this. However, I think I saw a lot more this time around, and I'm looking forward to discussing this.
A black landscape with shades of dark grey and navy blue used to depict a planet with no light beyond special trees and animals that create light. Above the landscape is a star-filled sky.
April 26, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Book 50 of 2025: All That's Left in the World by Erik J Brown. A re-read so I can read book 2. I really enjoyed this book.
Book cover shows a silhouetted male couple holding hands sitting on the roof of an abandoned red car with a deer grazing behind them. Trees line the road either side of the car, and a roadside diner-style light-up sign is above the car displaying the book title. The author's name is the car number plate.
April 26, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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Book 49 of 2025: The Restaurant of Lost Recipes by Hisashi Kashiwai
Book cover shows a Japanese restaurant with purple and blue roof tiles and orange lanterns along the top of a large yellow window. A largs blue cat lies atop the roof. Through the window can be seen the silhouette of a man stirring a steaming pot.
April 22, 2025 at 9:05 PM
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Book 48 of 2025: Day One by Abigail Dean.
A black book cover with the image of half a blond woman's face behind rippled glass so it's blurry. Book title is displayed on a yellow banner running across the woman's mouth like a gaflg.
April 20, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Book 47 of 2025: Wonderland by Jennifer Hillier
A vibrantly coloured book cover, with patches of pink,orange, blue and green sky over a fairground ferris wheel and roller coaster, situated above a bluey-purple sea and beach.
April 19, 2025 at 10:30 PM
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Book 46 of 2025: The Lost Passenger by Frances Quinn. An excellent read.
A dark blue front cover with green foliage and red roses around the edges. An oval insert with a drawing of the Titanic, with images in red to either side of the oval. On the left is an upper class man and woman in red silhouetted against a green lamppost. To therefore is an image of an ordinary woman and child in red silhouetted against a New York skyline with the Statue of Liberty.
April 19, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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Book 45 of 2025: The Clues in the Fjord by Satu Ramo
A mostly white front cover with the book title in large dark print with mid-blue wavy lines running across the lettering. The bottom of the cover shows a road running between a steep mountain slopes and a brown plain.
April 18, 2025 at 4:22 PM