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Nov 13Liked by John Birmingham

Mr King put out a few books as collections of short stories. They’re the easy to pick up & put down variety. Tight writing and story lines - not the type where the horror was the amount of bloat to be waded through.

Those books have survived a few rounds of culls from moving house.

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Dammit, adds another novel to the already precipitous to_be_read tower. If no one sees any posts from me for a couple of days please send a crew to excavate beneath the huge pile of books in my room.

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Same ... I have made a bee-line for the library and have a selection of fiction - literary and crime and non-fiction. Somehow I feel assured with a book under my wing. I ripped through Michael Brissenden's Smoke - which was good, but oddly located in California while feeling like Australia, but maybe that was my assumptions coming to bear. But you are wise in your counsel. Less of the "not news" is healthy. And on My Brilliant Friend, I found it a struggle and didn't finish it. The characters annoyed me.

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