Robert Goddard? I’d never heard of him until this month, when suddenly several book bloggers mentioned him as a good read. So I got hold of the three novels he wrote about Henry Barnett and I’m loving them. The character is sympathetic, the locations interesting, the ‘what exactly, how and why?’ sufficiently intriguing. I’m reminded of Helen MacInnes, although it’s so long since I read a book of hers that I’m not sure how valid the comparison is. Next up, I'm venturing for the first time into Ian Rankin territory.
Reading for distraction
Robert Goddard? I’d never heard of him until this month, when suddenly several book bloggers mentioned him as a good read. So I got hold of the three novels he wrote about Henry Barnett and I’m loving them. The character is sympathetic, the locations interesting, the ‘what exactly, how and why?’ sufficiently intriguing. I’m reminded of Helen MacInnes, although it’s so long since I read a book of hers that I’m not sure how valid the comparison is. Next up, I'm venturing for the first time into Ian Rankin territory.
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Book stats 2020
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Some Christmas reading
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Our youthful reading?
This link is to part of an email I had from Crime Classics: Albert Camus’ The Plague. When you were young (apologies if you still are), did you…
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