Hurrah! Back to the Books. Loved The Moving Toyshop. Absurd yet gripping to the end, and a nice tour of Oxford to boot. Just started Strange Tides – Boadicea’s just finishing off the cone of her 99.
I haven’t read the Dresdens for a few years now, so many of the details in individual books are a bit fuzzy. I just know I really enjoyed them. 🙂
Iain Banks/Iain M. Banks I did not get on with other than The Wasp Factory, which was good though disturbing (as I vaguely recall). In fact I have a carrier bag full of his books that I’ve been trying to donate the the BHF book collection points for c.two years, but around here the three points I can actually reach from the car while lugging a bag full of books were either always full because they rarely got emptied, or jammed shut due to vandalism – and then Covid came along and they were shut down officially. The bag’s under the stairs – hang on a minute –
Consider Fleabags, Player of Games, The Bridge, Espedair Street, Wasp Factory, Walking on Glass and Canal Dreams (plus a dozen or so other odds and sods that also need rehoming in order to make space for more books). I shall have to check out the collection points again the next time I go to Hayling.
Re. Lost books – the entire Sharpe series, including the prequel Sharpe’s Tiger. They have all done an Army of Cambyses II and marched off into oblivion . . .