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Meanderer-ing through 2018

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1meanderer
Bewerkt: dec 31, 2018, 1:13 pm

Books read in 2018:

1. Ghostly Tales: An Audible Christmas Gift. Audiobook.
2. Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook. Audiobook.
3. A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St Mary's Book 3 by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook.
4. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Audiobook.
5. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook.
6. No Middle Name by Lee Child. Audiobook.
7. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak. Audiobook and Kindle.
8. The Dead Shall be Raised by George Bellairs.
9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Audiobook.
10. Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble by MC Beaton. Audiobook.
11. Death of a Charming Man by MC Beaton.
12. Too Good to be True by Ann Cleeves.
13. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook.
14. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. Audiobook.
15. Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky.
16. Marius' Mules 1: The Invasion of Gaul by SJA Turney.
17. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. Audiobook.
18. South Pole by Christine Dell'Amore.
19. Offshore by Ann Cleeves.
20. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook.
21. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Audiobook.
22. E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories by EF Benson. Audiobook.
23. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer. Audiobook.
24. Death of a Nag by MC Beaton.
25. Salvage Trouble by JS Morin. Audiobook.
26. The North Water by Ian McGuire. Audiobook
27. A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2 by JS Morin. Audiobook.
28. Whisky from Small Glasses by Denzil Mayrick. Audiobook and Kindle.
29. Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Audiobook.
30. Mountain Man Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore. Audiobook.
31. My Life as an Explorer by Roald Amundsen.
32. Poets and Piracy: Mission 3 by JS Morin. Audiobook.
33. To Err is Azrin: Mission 4 by JS Morin. Audiobook.
34. State of Emergency: The Way We Were by Dominic Sandbrook. Audiobook.
35. Matter by Iain M Banks. Audiobook.
36. Lost on the Appalachian Trail by Kyle Rohrig.
37. No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook.
38. Just Passin' Thru by Winton Porter. Audiobook.
39. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. Audiobook.
40. Alien Racer: Mission 5 by JS Morin. Audiobook.
41. Retro Version by JS Morin. Audiobook.
42. Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton. Audiobook.
43. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz. Audiobook.
44. Fortress Britain by Glynn James. Audiobook.
45. Siege of Mortania by JS Morin. Audiobook.
46. Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon. Audiobook.
47. A Robot Named Clunk by Simon Haynes
48. Moon of Odysseus by JS Morin. Audiobook.
49. Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves. Audiobook.
50. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Audiobook.
51. Restricted Fantasies by Kevin Kneuper.
52. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie by Harold Schechter.
53. Secret Santa Cherringham by Matthew Costello. Audiobook.
54. NIV Audio Bible in One Year Audiobook.

2drneutron
dec 26, 2017, 11:22 am

Welcome back!

3meanderer
dec 27, 2017, 5:35 am

Thanks

4neverstopreading
dec 27, 2017, 10:02 am

I love the minimalism of your initial post. I definitely want to see what you read now. :-)

5thornton37814
dec 28, 2017, 2:03 pm

Happy 2018 reading!

6FAMeulstee
dec 31, 2017, 9:51 am

Happy reading in 2018, Tony!

7The_Hibernator
dec 31, 2017, 12:48 pm



Happy New Year! I wish you to read many good books in 2018.

8PaulCranswick
jan 1, 2018, 4:08 am



Happy New Year
Happy New Group here
This place is full of friends
I hope it never ends
It brew of erudition and good cheer.

9meanderer
jan 1, 2018, 11:52 am

10meanderer
Bewerkt: sep 9, 2018, 5:19 pm

I will record here the books that I start in 2018. This will help me to keep a track of the books I have on the go (usually more that one each of an audiobook, paper book and ebook).

1. NIV Audio Bible in One Year. Audiobook. As the name suggests this one will take all year. I am not a religious person, but the Bible is an important part of Western culture and I think it is important to have some familiarity with it. I chose this version because it covers both Old and New Testaments and the recording is divided into daily readings.

2. A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St Mary's Book 3 by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. Finished.

3. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Audiobook. Finished.

4. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook. Finished.

5. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak. Audiobook and Kindle Finished.

6. Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Not Visited and Never Will by Judith Schalansky. Finished.

7. Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson. Audiobook. I couldn't get into this one. I may retry it later on.

8. The Golden Ass by Apuleius.

9. Death of a Charming Man by M C Beaton. Finished.

10. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Audiobook. Finished.

11. Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble by M C Beaton. Audiobook. Finished

12. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer. Audiobook. Finished.

13. The Draining Lake by Arnaldur Indriđason.

14. Too Good to be True by Ann Cleeves. Finished

15. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. Finished.

16. South Pole by Christine Dell'Amore. Finished.

17. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. Audiobook. Finished.

18. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. Audiobook. Finished.

19. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook. Finished.

20. Other Minds: The Octopus and the Evolution of Intelligent Life by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Audiobook. Finished.

21. La planète des singes by Pierre Boulle

22. Offshore by Ann Cleeves. Finished.

23. Death of a Nag by MC Beaton. Finished.

24. The North Water by Ian McGuire. Audiobook. Finished.

25. A Million Years in a Day by Greg Jenner

26. E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories by EF Benson. Audiobook. Finished

27. State of Emergency: The Way We Were by Dominic Sandbrook. Audiobook.

28. Inca Gold by Clive Cussler.

29. Lost on the Appalachian Trail by Kyle Rohrig. Finished.

30. A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2 by JS Morin. Audiobook. Finished.

31. Whisky from Small Glasses by Denzil Mayrick. Audiobook and Kindle. Finished

32. Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Audiobook. Finished

33. Mountain Man Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore. Audiobook. Finished.

34. Poets and Piracy: Mission 3 by JS Morin. Audiobook. Finished.

35. No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. Finished.

36. Arctic Dreams by Barry Lopez

37. Just Passin' Thru by Winton Porter. Audiobook. Finished

11alcottacre
jan 1, 2018, 6:07 pm

Happy New Year, Tony! I hope you have a great reading year - and a great year all around!

12meanderer
jan 2, 2018, 4:30 am

>11 alcottacre: Thank you, Stasia. Happy New Year.

13meanderer
jan 2, 2018, 4:34 am

1. Ghostly Tales: An Audible Christmas Gift. Audiobook. Four ghostly tales, one by Charles Dickens, linked together by dialogue between the reader and his producer. Spooky.

14neverstopreading
jan 2, 2018, 12:14 pm

>13 meanderer: Which stories did it have on there?

15meanderer
jan 2, 2018, 3:56 pm

>14 neverstopreading: Between the Lights by E F Benson, A Strange Christmas Game by J H Riddell, Was it an Illusion by Emelia B Edwards and The Signalman by Charles Dickens. All short stories.

16meanderer
jan 3, 2018, 12:10 pm

2. Seasons in the Sun: The Battle for Britain, 1974-1979 by Dominic Sandbrook. Audiobook. This book details the events surrounding the Wilson and Callaghan governments in the second half of the 1970s. Interspersed with the politics are details of the social and cultural developments such as the rise of Punk. The events in this period, in particular the Winter of Discontent of 1978/79, led to the rise of Margaret Thatcher who, whether you think it was for good or ill, changed the UK dramatically. I was in my mid-teens at the time and remember some of the events, although I was mostly concentrating on passing exams. Interestingly Tony Benn, who became a respected figure if not a "National Treasure" towards the end of his political career, is shown as a devisive and disloyal character when in the Wilson and Callaghan goverments. The audio version is marvellously read by David Thorpe who brings the characters to live with his accurate impersonations.

17meanderer
jan 5, 2018, 4:20 pm

2. A Second Chance: The Chronicles of St Mary's Book 3 by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. Started and finished in 2018. This was a quick listen. As I am coming to expect with these books there is a mixture of silliness, humour, danger, romance (or sex), happiness and sadness. And a small amount of confusion. This one visits Isaac Newton, Ancient Troy, Agincourt and the Gloucester cheese rolling.

18meanderer
jan 14, 2018, 1:54 pm

4. Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman. Audiobook. A lively retelling of the Norse myths. I love the "humanity" of these gods; they are vain, irritable, sly, jealous, petulant, mean and some are even honorable and kind. A good introduction.

19neverstopreading
jan 14, 2018, 5:35 pm

>18 meanderer:. Have you read much else by Gaiman? I've never read any of his books, and I'm wonder which would be best to start with.

20meanderer
jan 17, 2018, 2:47 pm

>19 neverstopreading: Norse Mythology is the only book I have by Neil Gaiman.

21meanderer
jan 22, 2018, 1:11 pm

5. Rendezvous with Rama by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook. A sci-fi classic. In recent years I have reread or listened to several books which I first read in my teenage years. Sometimes, the books are not as good as my memory led me to believe. However, Rendezvous with Rama is just as good as I remember. It has excitement, danger and mystery.

22meanderer
Bewerkt: jan 28, 2018, 10:34 am

6. No Middle Name by Lee Child. Audiobook. The Jack Reacher short stories collected together. The stories cover all periods of Reacher's life from child to adult and are of varying lengths (some are very short). As usual, some suspension of reality is required to accept all that Reacher achieves, but there is one storywhere a sixteen year old Reacher in NYC for the first time manages to put away a major gangland leader and provide the key to the arrest of a notorious serial killer all in the space of a couple of days, which stretches even my credulity to the limit.

23meanderer
Bewerkt: jan 30, 2018, 2:35 pm

7. 24 Hours in Ancient Rome by Philip Matyszak. Audiobook and Kindle. I love books that look at the daily lives of ordinary people from the past. This book takes 24 hours from a day in the Roman empire and focuses on a different character in each one. The characters' names are taken from works by Roman authors or from graffiti or inscriptions which serve as a starting point for the fictional events in the book.

24meanderer
jan 30, 2018, 2:35 pm

8. The Dead Shall be Raised by George Bellairs. I had not heard of George Bellairs before reading this novel featuring DI Littlejohn. It turns out that there is a whole series of books featuring Littlejohn which were written from the 1940s to the 1970s. This story was published in 1942 and takes place in the Pennine hills of northern England during the Second World War. I enjoyed the story although some of the language used and the attitudes are definitely of their time.

25meanderer
jan 31, 2018, 6:27 pm

9. The Art of War by Sun Tzu. Audiobook. A short and interesting listen.

26meanderer
feb 3, 2018, 3:07 pm

10. Agatha Raisin and the Christmas Crumble by MC Beaton. Audiobook. A short story. If this had been my introduction to Agatha Raisin, I might not have bothered with anymore. However, I have seen the series made by Sky TV which was based on some of the books and I have read a few of the Hamish Macbeth books and enjoyed both, so I will give the Agatha Raisin novels a go.

27meanderer
Bewerkt: feb 12, 2018, 5:55 pm

11. Death of a Charming Man by MC Beaton. I always enjoy a trip to Lochdubh in the company of Hamish Macbeth, but he ending seemed to be a bit rushed in this one.

28meanderer
Bewerkt: feb 18, 2018, 12:28 pm

12. Too Good to be True by Ann Cleeves. a quick read featuring the Shetland detective Jimmy Perez. In this story Jimmy travels to the Borders to solve a mystery involving his sister and her husband. Not the best I have read from Ann Cleeves, but it kept me entertained.

29thornton37814
feb 20, 2018, 9:50 pm

>28 meanderer: I read that one recently. It was a nice "filler" until the next "fix" came out.

30meanderer
feb 24, 2018, 5:00 pm

13. A Trail Through Time by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. Another fun outing with the time travelling crew from St Mary's.

31meanderer
Bewerkt: mrt 6, 2018, 5:27 pm

14. A Man Lay Dead by Ngaio Marsh. Audiobook. This is the first Inspector Alleyn book and the first book by Ngaio Marsh I have read. It is set in an English country house where one of a small group of people attending a weekend party is murdered. To me, the characters seemed a little shallow and there was a subplot that really had nothing to do with the main story. This was written in 1934 and the attitudes of the characters reflect that, in particular with reference to the "lower orders". Still, overall I enjoyed the book and will listen to more of this series.

32meanderer
mrt 6, 2018, 5:27 pm

15. Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky. A beautifully produced book about 50 remote islands from around the world. Each island is depicted by a hand-drawn map and a short text about a part of the island's history. It took my quite a while to read this book because I used it as a starting point to learn more about each of the islands and finding each one on Google Earth. I have only visited one of these islands, St Kilda.

33meanderer
mrt 18, 2018, 12:52 pm

16. Marius' Mules 1: The Invasion of Gaul by SJA Turney. Roman military fiction following Caesar's campaign in Gaul in 58 BC. Plenty of battles and banter.

34meanderer
mrt 30, 2018, 4:02 pm

17. Company of Liars by Karen Maitland. Audiobook. Set in 14th century England at a time when the plague is ravaging the country the book follows a group of travellers who have banded together for safety and each of whom is hiding a secret. The sense of paranoia, the superstition and desperation of the period are well drawn. An interesting story.

35meanderer
apr 2, 2018, 4:36 am

18. South Pole by Christine Dell'Amore. This is mainly a collection of photographs taken by Henry Ponting during Captain Scott's expedition to the South Pole. There is also a brief account of the expedition itself. Fascinating.

36neverstopreading
apr 2, 2018, 3:01 pm

>32 meanderer: how many of those islands are believed to be in danger of sea level rise?

37meanderer
Bewerkt: apr 5, 2018, 4:28 pm

>36 neverstopreading: Some most definitely, especially the atolls in the Pacific. Many of the other islands are protected by high sea cliffs and so will probably be safer, although climate change will no doubt have some effect on them.

38meanderer
apr 10, 2018, 3:48 am

19. Offshore by Ann Cleeves. A collection of short stories, most involving detectives from Cleeves' other books (though sometimes only fleetingly).

39meanderer
Bewerkt: apr 14, 2018, 9:50 am

20. 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C Clarke. Audiobook. I first read this many years ago and have seen the film a few times. I am still not sure that I understand the ending.

40meanderer
Bewerkt: apr 14, 2018, 10:08 am

21. Other Minds by Peter Godfrey-Smith. Audiobook. A look at the intelligence of octopusses and how it may have evolved.

41meanderer
apr 15, 2018, 11:30 am

22. E.F. Benson's Ghost Stories by EF Benson. Audiobook. A collection of spooky tales from EF Benson. Some of the tales were slightly spooky, others were quite scary.

42meanderer
Bewerkt: apr 22, 2018, 11:43 am

23. The Time Traveller's Guide to Restoration Britain by Ian Mortimer. Audiobook. As with Ian Mortimer's other books, I finished this one with a feeling that I knew the period almost as well as if I had actually lived there.

43meanderer
apr 24, 2018, 3:27 pm

24. Death of a Nag by MC Beaton. Another entertaining episode from the life of Hamish Macbeth who is removed from his usual patch in Lochdubh to the charmingly named seaside town of Skag.

44meanderer
apr 28, 2018, 4:40 pm

25. Salvage Trouble by JS Morin. Audiobook. A mixture of sci-fi and fantasy. This book follows the adventures of Carl, the captain of the spaceship Mobius, and his crew. There are 16 books and six short stories in the series and I was able to get them all for 1 Audible credit. I did wonder whether I would like the books after reading some mixed reviews but for the equivalent of about £4.50 (for 85+ hours of listening) and with the guarantee that I could return the books if I didn't like them, I thought it was worth a punt. Happily, I did like the first in the series and will probably enjoy the others.

45meanderer
apr 28, 2018, 6:58 pm

Just started reading Inca Gold by Clive Cussler and the beginning seemed quite familiar as if I had read the book before. One thing I found irritating within a few pages was the author putting measurements in metric units followed by imperial units in brackets. So I checked the book's entry and found that I had mentioned the book on my 2013 thread. I looked back and found this comment:

"I've just started Inca Gold by Clive Cussler and there is one thing that is really, really irritating me. He gives measurements in metric, which is fine I'm used to metric but then he gives the imperial measure as well. Describing a condor in flight, " Its long, broad wings measuring 3 metres (10 feet) in length ......." In non-fiction I could understand, but in fiction it just spoils the flow of the story."

I must have given up on the book because I don't mention it again (until today that is), perhaps because of the metric/imperial thing. Anyway, I shall give it another go.

46PaulCranswick
mei 6, 2018, 8:08 am

>45 meanderer: Talk about deja vu, Tony.

Have a great Sunday.

47meanderer
mei 20, 2018, 10:09 am

26. The North Water by Ian McGuire. Audiobook. Gritty is a good word to describe this book. I found none of the characters particularly likeable, even the "goodies", and the misery of their lives is pretty unrelenting. Still, it was a good listen but now I need something light and fluffy as a contrast.

48meanderer
jun 3, 2018, 3:54 pm

27. A Smuggler's Conscience: Mission 2 by JS Morin. Audiobook. This was the something light and fluffy that I needed after The North Water. A fun adventure in the company of Carl and his crew.

49meanderer
jun 4, 2018, 3:33 pm

28. Whisky from Small Glasses by Denzil Mayrick. Audiobook and Kindle. I had this on both Kindle and audiobook but in the end I mostly used the audio version because I found the spelling of the Scottish accents a little difficult to read and the narrator made such a good job of bringing the accents to life. I found this story gripping and finished the book in less than a week, although it did suffered from some of the typical detective novel clichés. It is part of a series that I shall return to in the future.

50meanderer
jun 11, 2018, 1:25 pm

29. Making Money by Terry Pratchett. Audiobook. Another wonderful adventure on Discworld.

51meanderer
jun 14, 2018, 3:22 pm

30. Mountain Man Prequel by Keith C. Blackmore. Audiobook. I was so pleased when I saw this appear on Audible and I was not disappointed. It was wonderful to find out how the Mountain Man became the Mountain Man and how he survived the first few days of the zombie apocalypse.

52meanderer
Bewerkt: jun 21, 2018, 2:55 pm

31. My Life as an Explorer by Roald Amundsen. I started this book sometime last year and have finally managed to finish it. There are some details of Amundsen's early life and expeditions. As for the exploits for which he is most famous, these are briefly mentioned and the reader is directed to other books which Amundsen wrote about them. A large part of the book is taken up by his crossing from Europe to North America over the Arctic in the airship Norge. Although this is not taken up with the journey itself which is covered in a few lines "The Norge took to the air on her epoch making journey from Spitzbergen at 10 o'clock in the morning on May 11 1926. Forty-two hours later, we sighted point Barrow on the north coast of Alaska", but with refuting claims and comments made by the leader of the Italian crew, Umberto Nobile. For serious students of Arctic Expeditions this may be of some interest, but I found it tedious after a while and began skimming large chunks of the text. I did not bother with the appendix which refuted more of Nobile's claims, according to the title. A disappointment.

53meanderer
jun 22, 2018, 4:39 pm

32. Poets and Piracy: Mission 3 by JS Morin. Audiobook. Excellent fun.

54meanderer
jul 1, 2018, 2:30 pm

33. To Err is Azrin: Mission 4 by JS Morin. Audiobook. More excellent fun.

55meanderer
Bewerkt: jul 22, 2018, 4:54 pm

34. State of Emergency: The Way We Were by Dominic Sandbrook. Audiobook. Another detailed history of the UK from Dominic Sandbrook wonderfully read by David Thorpe. Some parts of this make for difficult listening, especially the chapters about the atrocities in Northern Ireland.

56meanderer
Bewerkt: jul 22, 2018, 5:11 pm

35. Matter by Iain M Banks. Audiobook. As ever with the Culture novels, this story takes place in a richly detailed universe and contains some truly imaginative ideas. A fantastic listen.

57meanderer
aug 8, 2018, 2:48 pm

36. Lost on the Appalachian Trail by Kyle Rohrig. I have read yet another book on the AT! It took a short while to get into this one, but I soon began to enjoy following the adventures of The Mayor and Katana.

58meanderer
aug 10, 2018, 12:01 pm

37. No Time Like the Past by Jodi Taylor. Audiobook. I am beginning to think that I need to give this series a rest for a while. I found myself becoming ever more frustrated by the wilful stupity, carelessness and lack of respect for their own rules that ended up with each mission into the past ending in some sort of problem or disaster. It was the St Paul's mission that was the final straw for me.

59meanderer
aug 13, 2018, 7:49 am

38. Just Passin' Thru by Winton Porter. Audiobook. You may be starting to think that I have an obsession with the AT and long distance walking and you would probably be right. I had no intention of reading another book about long distance walking in the near future, but this one was on a list of recommendations from Amazon and it looked so good that I could not resist. This is somewhat different from the other books I have read, because it is from the perspective of the owner of a store on the AT who writes about the hikers who come through his store. This was a fascinating listen and was over far too soon.

60meanderer
aug 14, 2018, 12:53 pm

39. Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell. Audiobook. Fact, fiction or a mix of both? It was an interesting listen, though of its time with a streak of antisemitism running through. I found the Paris section the most interesting.

61meanderer
aug 15, 2018, 3:28 pm

40. Alien Racer: Mission 5 by JS Morin. Audiobook. Even more excellent fun.

62meanderer
Bewerkt: okt 5, 2018, 4:48 pm

41. Retro Version by JS Morin. Audiobook. I was going to take a short break from this excellent series, but I had a long journey to make and I wanted to find out what happened next. There are 10 more missions and a few short stories left so there's still plenty more fun to be had.

63meanderer
sep 9, 2018, 5:34 pm

42. Great North Road by Peter F Hamilton. Audiobook. 36 hours 35 minutes of listening. Peter F Hamilton writes long books as I saw from the shelves of my local Waterstones. This is a standalone novel set mainly in Newcastle, a city in the north east of England, and St Libra, one of several planets colonised by humans. There are several plot lines which all come together as the story unfolds to reach a satisfying conclusion.

64meanderer
sep 14, 2018, 5:41 pm

43. Point Blanc by Anthony Horowitz. Audiobook. Definitely a children's book but I've a lot about the Alex Rider books and thought I would give this a go since it was one of Audible's daily deals. I would have loved this as a boy and as an adult I thought it was an OK listen.

65meanderer
sep 20, 2018, 5:10 pm

44. Fortress Britain by Glynn James and Michael Fuchs. Audiobook. And so I embark on another zombie apocalypse fest. The first in a long series, Fortress Britain does a fair bit of scene setting for the future novels. It did feel a bit like the authors had written a longer novel and then split it into two; this one and Mogadishu of the Dead.

66meanderer
okt 5, 2018, 4:47 pm

45. Siege of Mortania by JS Morin. Audiobook. Whenever I need a fun listen, I turn to Black Ocean.

67meanderer
okt 11, 2018, 3:49 pm

46. Jupiter's Travels by Ted Simon. Audiobook. Classic travel writing. Ted Simon does not try to give an account of his entire journey but instead he picks out some key events. A good listen.

68meanderer
Bewerkt: dec 6, 2018, 5:14 pm

47. A Robot Named Clunk by Simon Haynes

An amusing read where robots are the heroes.

48. Moon of Odysseus by JS Morin. Audiobook.

Another installment in the Black Ocean series. A great listen.

49. Wild Fire by Ann Cleeves. Audiobook.

The final Shetland novel. Maybe not the best in the series, but a satisfying listen.

69meanderer
Bewerkt: dec 6, 2018, 5:16 pm

50. Dark Matter by Blake Crouch. Audiobook.

An enjoyable sci-fi read.

70meanderer
Bewerkt: dec 9, 2018, 4:36 am

51. Restricted Fantasies by Kevin Kneuper. A collection of short stories all based on the theme of virtual reality. Some of the stories are more thought-provoking than others, but a good read overall.
52. Little Slaughterhouse on the Prairie by Harold Schechter. A short account of the killings by the Bender family in Kansas in the 1870s. OK, but didn't really add anything to information available on the internet.

71meanderer
dec 24, 2018, 4:14 pm

53. Secret Santa Cherringham by Matthew Costello. Audiobook. Story 25 from a long running series of shortish "cosy crime" stories. I had not heard of the series before getting the special offer from Audible. I thought that the ending was a little unsatisfying but I am willing to give the series another chance and will start at the beginning.

72PaulCranswick
dec 25, 2018, 4:24 am



Happy holidays, Tony

73thornton37814
dec 31, 2018, 1:01 pm

74meanderer
Bewerkt: dec 31, 2018, 1:10 pm

>72 PaulCranswick: Thank you and I hope that you have a wonderful 2019.

75meanderer
dec 31, 2018, 1:10 pm

>73 thornton37814: Thank you. Happy New Year.

76meanderer
dec 31, 2018, 1:25 pm

54. NIV Audio Bible in One Year Audiobook. My first and last book of 2018. I am not a religion person, but I thought that it was important to read (or listen) to the Bible at least once since it is such a key work. Some parts I already knew; the selections that are taught in school or are read out in church. Some parts were hard going and, if I had been reading rather that listening, I may well have skipped those parts (mainly from the Old Testament when outlining the different types of sin and corresponding offerings or the instructions for building the tabernacle or making the priests' robes).

77neverstopreading
jan 1, 2019, 7:32 pm

>54 meanderer: Many people I think skim through major portions of Leviticus and 1 Chronicles (with the genealogies).

Happy new year!