Category: Books
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Literacy 2023: Recap
Another year of failing to hit my target number, but being pretty happy about it nonetheless
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Literacy 2023: Book 18: Shadow of the Sith
An interim Star Wars story in which Luke and Lando try to protect Rey’s family from a sinister Sith plot.
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Literacy 2023: Book 17: The Thursday Murder Club
Richard Osman’s cozy crime story about a group of residents of a retirement community solving a “real” murder
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Literacy 2023: Book 16: The Theory of Everything Else
Dan Schreiber’s collection of fringe science, pseudoscience, and other crackpot ideas
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Literacy 2023: Book 15: The Mysterious Affair at Styles
The first Hercule Poirot mystery is essentially a template for everything we expect from an Agatha Christie murder mystery
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Literacy 2023: Book 14: The Murder of Roger Ackroyd
The Agatha Christie Poirot mystery that’s considered a classic for good reason
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Literacy 2023: Book 13: The Ocean at the End of the Lane
Neil Gaiman’s fairy tale about childhood, magic, memory, and forgetting
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Literacy 2023: Book 12: Lovecraft Country
A brilliant combination of genre fiction, supernatural horror, and real-life horror
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Literacy 2023: Book 11: You Can’t Be Serious
Kal Penn’s memoir about his experiences as an Indian American actor in Hollywood and as a member of the Obama administration
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Literacy 2023: Book 10: The House of Silk
Sherlock Holmes and Dr Watson investigate a widespread conspiracy in a story so scandalous it had to be withheld from publishing for a century
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Literacy 2023: Book 9: The Skeleton Key
Erin Kelly’s mystery/thriller novel inspired by real-life puzzle books and the treasure hunters obsessed with decoding them
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Literacy 2023: Book 8: Eerie Tales from the School of Screams
This new graphic novel is an anthology of five comic horror stories, ostensibly for kids but actually for me