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Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Fall, part 2

I’m really tired, so I’m just going to get into this. These books are good, but it’s November, and I’m a teacher. November is hell month.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersJoe Abercrombie, A Little Hatred, The Trouble With Peace, The Wisdom of Crowds, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Nona the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring, The Two Towers, Charles Stross, The Laundry Files, Escape From Yokai Land, The Delirium Brief, The Labyrinth INdex, Dead Lies Dreaming, James S.A. Corey, The Expanse, Leviathan Falls, A Lush and Seething Hell, John Horner Jacobs, Hannu Rajaniemi, Jean le Flambeur, The Causal Angel, Izumi Suzuki, Terminal Boredom: Stories, Iain M. Banks, Iain Banks, Consider Phlebas Comment
Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021
Cameron's Book Reviews: Early 2021

I tend to set my reading goal a lot lower than Edgar, for a variety of reasons. One of them is the fact that I think aiming to read a large number of books over the course of a year means that you engage less deeply with them. Or, at least, when I do that, that’s how it works for me. Still, I have read a few extremely good books this year.

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Book reviewsCameron SummersN.K. Jemisin, The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms, American Nations: A History of the Eleven Rival Regional Cultures of North America, Colin Woodard, Non-Places, Marc Augé, Sisyphean, Dempow Torishima, The War on Everyone, Robert Evans, Gideon the Ninth, Harrow the Ninth, Tamsyn Muir, The Locked Tomb trilogy, Postcapitalist Desire, Mark Fisher, Matt Colquhoun, Pet, Akwaeke Emezi, Agency, William Gibson, An Indigenous People's History of the United States, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, The Medieval Vision: Essays in History and Perception, Carolly Erickson, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, The Utopia of Rules, David Graeber, Ninefox Gambit, Yoon Ha LeeComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up: September-October
Edgar's Book Round-Up: September-October

The work continues, and we try to make things better where we can — and when we can’t do that, we distract ourselves!

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. BoylesTamsyn Muir, Gideon the Ninth, The Neverending Story, Michael Ende, The Relic Master, Christopher Buckley, Rosewater, Tade thompson, Rin Chupeco, The Never Tilting World, Cemetery Boys, Aiden Thomas, the Strain, Guillermo del Toro, Chuck Hogan, The Luminous Dead, Caitlin Starling, The Starless Sea, Erin Morgenstern, Phillip Pullman, The Golden Compass, Borderline, Mishell BakerComment
Edgar's Book Round-Up, July-August
Edgar's Book Round-Up, July-August

With few distractions and a lot of unsupervised time, I’ve been burning through stuff pretty fast. We’ll see how well that holds, but so far, I’ve read almost half again as many books as I set out to at the beginning of the year — which is fine with me, but does lead to some lengthy book round-ups. So:

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Book reviews, Written by: EdgarC.-E. Boylesreviews, Books, Carlos Ruiz Zafon, Marina, Toni Morrison, God Help the Child, Roberto Calasso, The Marriage of Cadmus and Harmony, L. L. McKinney, A Blade So Black, Nnedi Okorafor, Akata series, N.K. Jemisin, Broken Earth trilogy, Kester Grant, The Court of Miracles, A Dream So Dark, Alan Herwitz, Aesthetics: Key Concepts in Philosophy, April Genevieve Tucholke, Wink Poppy Midnight, Tamsyn Muir, Gideon the NinthComment