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William's Book Blog

Mostly book reviews.  Very rarely I'll allow William Campbell Powell (author) to write a blog entry on publishing activity, but he's under orders to keep that stuff over on his Facebook page and on http://williamcampbellpowell.com

Currently reading

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Fonda Lee
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Fonda Lee
Anansi Boys
Neil Gaiman
Zombie Elementary: The Real Story
Howard Whitehouse
Progress: 99 %
The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2)
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Progress: 6/504 pages
The Longest Week: What Really Happened During Jesus' Final Days
Nick Page
Progress: 43/310 pages
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February
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Fonda Lee
Fonda Lee
Neil Gaiman
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Howard Whitehouse
currently reading
Carlos Ruiz Zafón
May 2016
07
url: Return of the Link Tax?
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January 2016
19
liked:
This book is not terrible but it could have been a lot better. The English is poor (the author is Italian, I think - certainl...
December 2015
13
read and rated
December 2015
10
finished reading:
December 2015
06
text: Two DNFs to report
Having re-listened to Neil Gaiman's Stardust on audiobook, and the author's postscript, in which he extolled the pleasure of ...
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain, Guy Cardwell, John Seelye The Wasp Factory - Iain Banks
November 2015
27
reviewed: Quantum predictability
I so enjoyed the first book in the series. This was a real let-down. None of the twists and turns of the first novel. The ...
A Quantum Murder  - Peter F. Hamilton
read
November 2015
26
finished reading:
November 2015
24
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November 2015
17
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November 2015
16
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November 2015
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November 2015
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November 2015
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November 2015
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November 2015
01
reviewed: Etiolated, Ineluctable, Pugnacious
No, not the book itself, but arguably the three adjectives Miéville overused most, to the point where I could see the next on...
Perdido Street Station  - Jonathan Oliver, China Miéville
read and rated
October 2015
30
finished reading:
October 2015
22
text: Just one warning, so far...
I see a lot of praise directed at China Miéville's works, so I decided to check out whether it was deserved or just hype. I ...
Perdido Street Station  - Jonathan Oliver, China Miéville
October 2015
14
reviewed: Jakob's Colours: the last brush strokes
This was a hard one to get into - a spur-of-the-moment audiobook which starts following a young Romany boy Jakob as he avoids...
Jakob's Colours - Lindsay Hawdon
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October 2015
13
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