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Calvin Cutter, film maker extraordinaire, returns to St Mary’s to make a new series of Tempora the Time Travelling Tourist, and Max is tasked with babysitting Astrid Gustafssen, the series star. What could possibly go wrong? Well, for starters Adrian, one of the teapot time travelling siblings, takes Astrid to Troy, and loses her. Unfortunately most of St Mary’s staff were in Troy at that time, so since you can’t go back to a time you’ve already visited, only Max, Markham, Adrian and Evans can form a search party and both Max and Markham will die at midnight if they don’t get out of Troy before their younger selves arrive. No pressure then. And while they’re at it they encounter Odysseus and Diomedes on a secret mission to steal the Palladium which ultimately leads to the fall of Troy. Once again, history hangs in the balance. I love Jodi Taylor's St Mary's books.
Dec. 28th, 2024
Booklog 2024: The Whole Thing
Dec. 28th, 2024 08:39 pmThe Christmas Day round of cooking, eating, unwrapping, snoozing, and watching Dr Who on TV is over for another year and I have enough pre-prepped food in the fridge to make kitchen duties fairly easy between Christmas and New Year. So there are a few spare hours on my horizon, and I managed to settle down with Jodi Taylor’s new Christmas short story, Lights! Camera! Mayhem!, on my Kindle.
I still have the audiobook version of Adrian Tchaikovsky’s City of last Chances unfinished, and I might well finish it before New Year’s Eve, but realistically, if I do, it will be my last read of 2024.
Counting the last one, as yet unfinished, I will have read 116 books this year, (including a couple of DNFs – did not finish – after giving them a fair try). Many of them I’ve consumed in Audiobook format, which is convenient and enables me to keep up with my reading when doodling around the house, in the kitchen, or in bed at night when any kind of light (even Kindle-light) disturbs my husband’s sleep. In the past I’ve mostly listened to audiobooks as re-reads, but this year I’ve consumed a fair few as first time reads. I’ve written a bit about some of my favourites on the Milford blog, and blogged all of them here. This is my full reading list for 2024. Roll on 2025. As before I will be trying some new-to-me authors as well as reading favourite authors.
Booklog 2024
- Jodi Taylor: Christmas Pie – St Mary’s 14.5 – Audiobook
- Sarah Hawkswood: Too Good to Hang – Bradecote & Catchpoll – Audiobook
- Sophie Keetch: Morgan is my Name – Morgan Le Fay #1 – Audiobook
- Cherryh, C.J.: Pride of Chanur – Chanur #1 – Audiobook
- T. Kingfisher: Paladin’s Faith – Saint of Steel #4 – Audiobook
- Sarah Hawkswood: Blood Runs Thicker – Bradecote & Catchpoll #8 – Audiobook
- C.S. Forester: A Ship of the Line – Hornblower #7 – Audiobook
- C.S. Forester: Flying Colours – Hornblower #9 – Audiobook
- Kevin Hearne: Trapped – Iron Druid #5– Audiobook
- Ben Aaronovitch and others: Blake’s 7: A Rebellion Reborn – Audiobook
- Sebastien de Castell: Crucible of Chaos – Greatcoats #5
- Dennis E. Taylor: All These Worlds – Bobiverse #3 – Audiobook
- Travis Baldree: Legends and Lattes – Legends and Lattes #1 – Audiobook
- Martha Wells: Fugitive Telemetry – Murderbot #6
- James Lovegrove: Firefly: magnificent Nine – Firefly #2 – Audiobook
- Kim Newman: Secrets of the Drearcliff Grange School (DNF)
- Lois McMaster Bujold: Demon Daughter – Penric and Desdemona – Audiobook
- Martha Wells: Network Effect – Murderbot #5 – Audiobook
- Neil Gaiman: Fragile Things – Audiobook
- James Logan: The Silverblood Promise – The Last Legacy #1
- Jim Butcher: Summer Knight – Harry Dresden #4
- Stan Lee’s Alliances – A Trick of the Light – Audiobook (DNF)
- Dennis E. Taylor: Outland – Quantum Earth #1 – Audiobook
- Dennis E. Taylor: Earthside – Quantum Earth #2 – Audiobook
- S.J. Bennett: Murder Most Royal – Her Majesty the “Queen Investigates #3 – Audiobook
- Dennis E. Taylor: Roadkill – Audiobook
- Dennis E. Taylor: Singularity Trap – Audiobook
- Sebastien de Castell: Play of Shadows – Greatcoats
- Joshua Dalzelle: Warship – Black Fleet Trilogy #1– Audiobook
- Dennis E Taylor: Heaven’s River – Bobiverse #4 – Audiobook
- Dennis E Taylor: A Change of Plans, Audiobook
- Amber Benson and Chris Golden: Slayers – Buffyverse – Audiobook
- Tamsin Muir: Gideon the Ninth; Locked Tomb Trilogy #1 – Audiobook
- Terry Pratchett: Monstrous Regiment – Discworld #31 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Night Raven- Crow investigations #1 – Audiobook
- K.J. Parker: Saevus Corax Deals with the Dead – Saevus Corax #1
- Sarah Painter: The Silver Mark – Crow Investigations #2 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Fox’s Curse – Crow Investigations #3 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Pearl King – Crow Investigations #4 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Copper Heart – Crow Investigations #5 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Shadow Wing– Crow Investigations #6 – Audiobook
- R.S. Ford: A Demon in Silver – War of the Archons #1 – Audiobook
- C.S. Forester: The Happy Return – Hornblower – Audiobook
- K.J. Parker: Saevus Corax Captures the Castle – Saevus Corax #2
- Lindsey Davis: A Body in the Bath House – Marcus Didius Falco #13 – Audiobook
- K.J. Parker: Saevus Corax Gets away with Murder – Saevus Corax #3
- Lindsey Davis: The Jupiter Myth – Marcus Didius Falco #14 – Audiobook
- Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife #1 Beguilement – Audiobook
- Lois McMaster Bujold: The Sharing Knife #2 Legacy – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: Shadows in Bronze – Marcus Didius Falco #2 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: Venus in Copper – Marcus Didius falco #3 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: Poseidon’s Gold – Marcus Didius Falco #5 – Audiobook
- Jodi Taylor: The Something Girl: Frogmorton Farm #2 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: A Dying Light in Corduba – Marcus Didius Falco #8 – Audiobook
- Mercedes Lackey: Beyond – The Founding of Valdemar – Valdemar #1 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Broken Cage – Crow Investigations #7 – Audiobook
- Sarah Painter: The Magpie Key – Crow Investigations #8 – Audiobook
- Jodi Taylor: Killing Time – Time Police #5
- Anthony Hope: The Prisoner of Zenda – Audiobook
- Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric’s Demon – Penric #1 – Audiobook
- Juliet E. McKenna: Green Man’s Heir – Green Man #1 – Audiobook
- Lois McMaster Bujold: The Hallowed Hunt – Five Gods #3 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: The Iron Hand of Mars – Falco #2 – Audiobook
- Alexander Kent: Richard Bolitho, Midshipman – Bolitho #1 – Audiobook
- Alexander Kent: Midshipman Bolitho and the Avenger – Bolitho #1 – Audiobook
- Josephine Tey: The Daughter of Time – Alan Grant #5 – Audiobook
- Charles de Lint: Jack the Giant Killer – Jack of Kinrowan #1 DNF
- Jennifer Roberson: Sword Dancer – Tiger and Del #1 – Audiobook
- Genevieve Cogman: Scarlet – The Scarlett Revolution ‘#1
- Beverley Watts: Grace – Shackleford Sisters #1
- Robin McKinley: Dragonhaven – Audiobook
- Jodi Taylor: Storm Christopher – Frogmorton Farm #4
- A.C.Riddle: Lost in Time – Eddie LaCrosse #1 – Audiobook
- Alex Bledsoe: The Sword-Edged Blonde – Audiobook
- C.J.Archer: Honour Bound – Witch Born #1 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davis: Last Act in Palmyra – Marcus Didius Falco #6 – Audiobook
- C.S. Forester: Hornblower and the Atropos – Hornblower #5 – Audiobook
- C.J. Sansome: Dark Fire – Shardlake #2 – Audiobook
- Sarah Hawkswood: Wolf at the Door – Bradecote & Catchpoll #9 – Audiobook
- Sarah Hawkswood: A Taste for Killing – Bradecote & Catchpoll #10 – Audiobook
- Guy Gavriel Kay, Ysabel – Audiobook
- David D. Levine: The Kuiper Belt Job – Cannibal Club #1
- Lois McMaster Bujold: Penric and the Bandit – Penric and Desdemona #13
- Hazel Cushion: Reading Companion and History Briefings for Just One Damned Thing After Another
- Naomi Novik: Throne of Jade – Temeraire #2 – Audiobook
- Adrian Tchaikovsky: Service Model – Audiobook
- T. Kingfisher: A Sorceress Comes to Call – Audiobook
- Martha Wells: System Collapse – Murderbot Diaries #7
- C.L.Polk: The Midnight Bargain – Audiobook
- Andre Norton: Moon of Three Rings – Moon Magic #1 – Audiobook
- T Kingfisher: Bryony and Roses – Audiobook
- Adrian Tchaikovsky: Alien Clay – Audiobook
- Marshall Ryan Maresca: The Imposters of Aventil –
- Jodi Taylor: The Ballad of Smallhope and Pennyroyal – Chronicles of St Mary’s
- A.G. Riddle: The Extinction Trials – Audiobook
- Dana Chamblee Carpenter: Bohemian Gospel – Bohemian Gospel #1 Audiobook
- Dennis E Taylor: Not Till We Are Lost – Bobiverse #5 – Audiobook
- Elizabeth Bear: Dust – Jacob’s Ladder #1 – Audiobook
- Lindsey Davies: Two for the Lions – Marcus Didius Falco #10 – Audiobook
- Benedict Jacka: An Inheritance of Magic – Inheritance of Magic # – Audiobook
- Benedict Jacka: An Instruction in Shadow – Inheritance of Magic # – Audiobook
- C.S. Forester: Hornblower and the Crisis – Hornblower #4 – Audiobook
- Juliet E McKenna: The Green Man’s War – Green Man #6
- Kesia Lupo: We are Blood and Thunder.
- Alexandra Walsh: The Wind Chime – Audiobook
- Anne McCaffrey: Dragonsong – Harper Hall (Pern) #1 – Audiobook
- James Felton: 52 Times Britain was a Bellend – Audiobook
- Robin McKinley: Rose Daughter – Audiobook
- The Infinite Monkey Cage – Series 1 – 5 – Audiobook
- The Infinite Monkey Cage – Series 6 – 9 – Audiobook
- Rebecca Fraimow: Lady Eve’s Last Con
- Joe Haldeman: The Forever War – Forever War #1 – Audiobook
- Elizabeth Chadwick: The Greatest Knight – William Marshal #2 – Audiobook
- James Lovegrove: Sherlock Holmes and the Christmas Demon – Audiobook
- Jodi Taylor: Lights! Camera! Mayhem! # A Chronicles of St Mary short story
- Adrian Tchaikovsky: City of Last Chances – Tyrant Philosopher #1 – Audiobook