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Finished Different Class by Joanne Harris, which was just as good as - if not better than - Gentlemen & Players. Highly recommended, especially in audiobook format, where the additional voice provided by Ewan Goddard adds a perfect, shudderingly creepy note to Steven Pacey's reliably excellent narration.

 

Currently reading Into The Woods: How Stories Work and Why We Tell Them by John Yorke, and You're Never Weird on the Internet (Almost) by the fabulous Felicia Day.

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The 'strange and sometimes worrying' Curvology by David Bainbridge.

 

“Curvology”, a new book by David Bainbridge, focuses on the part played by evolution in men’s—and women’s—understanding and appreciation of the undulations of the female form. Men’s and women’s bodies differ more than is necessary simply to gestate, bear and nourish children. Why?

 

http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21645120-why-and-wherefore-womens-curves-shape-shifting

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Redshirts by John Scalzi. Junior ensigns on the starship Intrepid suffer an unusually high death rate on away missions, whereas the captain, chief science officer and chief engineer all return unscathed. Sound familiar?

 

Very amusing but getting darker half way through, and cleverly done.

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The Hand That First Held Mine by Maggie O'Farrell. The synopsis sounds like chick-lit (family secret, two women whose lives collide fifty years after the death of one of them) but the exquisite beauty of the writing elevates it to a whole new level. Just breathtaking. 10/10

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