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Title: | Mistress of the Art of Death |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Ariana Franklin |
ISBN: | 978-0-14-314188-4 |
CDs: | 11 |
Format: | audiobook on CD |
Started: | 2013-04 |
Finished: | 2013-05 |
A mystery set in medieval Cambridge, involving a serial murderer of children, and the hunt to find him by a Jewish detective, a woman forensic doctor (I kid you not!), and her Moorish eunuch guardian. All in all, it makes for some entertaining listening, somewhat fantastic, but entertaining.
Title: | Loop |
Rating: | 3 |
Author: | Koji Suzuki |
ISBN: | 978-1-93-223425-1 |
Pages: | 283 |
Format: | paperback |
Started: | 2013-04 |
Finished: | 2013-04 |
It's the third of a trilogy, but it is a good read by itself, the previous two are not needed for it to make sense. I enjoyed the “story within a story” aspect of it, but the ending was somewhat flat.
Title: | Shades of Grey |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Jasper Fforde |
ISBN: | 978-0-14-314326-0 |
CDs: | |
Format: | audiobook on CD |
Started: | 2013-04 |
Finished: | 2013-04 |
An very entertaining post-apocalyptic tale, it takes place well after “the Thing that Happened”. Set in a world where colour-perception determines social status, it follows one young man's journey as he learns what his society is really about.
Title: | Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers |
Rating: | 4 |
Author: | Mary Roach |
ISBN: | 978-0-393-32482-2 |
Pages: | 303 |
Format: | paperback |
Started: | 2013-04 |
Finished: | 2013-04 |
An unusual and sometimes humourous look at how cadavers have been used currently and throughout history. If you've ever wondered about what happens if you donate your body to science after you die, this is the book to read.
Title: | Daemon |
Rating: | 5 |
Author: | Daniel Suarez |
ISBN: | 978-0-14-314444-1 |
CDs: 13 | |
Format: | audiobook on CD |
Started: | 2013-03 |
Finished: | 2013-03 |
A fantastic read! The most realistic “Computer” science-fiction that I have ever read (listened to, actually, it was an audio book). I highly recommend it to anyone into both computers and sci-fi!