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An avid sci-fi and fantasy reader who sometimes does historical fiction or even mainstream.
You might notice that most of my reviews are 5 stars. That's because if I start reading a book that doesn't engage me, I stop reading it. Life is too short. I've realized that it's not fair to review a book I haven't read and nobody really needs to hear why I didn't get into a book especially when they might like it.
My goals with reviews are to be brief and give other potential readers an idea of why they might like the book. I leave it to the marketing people and other reviewers to describe the plots.
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David Scrimshaw rated Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell: 5 stars

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time of the Napoleonic Wars. Its …
David Scrimshaw rated Midnight's Children (Picador Books): 5 stars

Salman Rushdie: Midnight's Children (Picador Books) (Paperback, 1982, Picador)
Midnight's Children (Picador Books) by Salman Rushdie
Midnight's Children is a 1981 novel by author Salman Rushdie. It portrays India's transition from British colonial rule to independence …
David Scrimshaw rated Still Life with Woodpecker: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Post Office: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Wizard: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Newton's Wake: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Mind Games: 5 stars

Eric Wallace: Mind Games (2000, Hachette)
Mind Games by Eric Wallace (Mister Terrific, Volume 1)
David Scrimshaw rated Rainbows End: 4 stars

Rainbows End by Vernor Vinge
From the back cover:
World famous poet Robert Gu missed twenty years of progress while he nearly died from …
David Scrimshaw rated Fragile Things: 4 stars

Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman
This is a duplicate. Please update your lists. See openlibrary.org/works/OL679359W.
David Scrimshaw rated Gridlinked: 5 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour: 5 stars

Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour by J. D. Salinger
Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters and Seymour J. D. Salinger Two semi-autobiographical novellas in Salinger’s Glass family series. Both …
David Scrimshaw rated Holy Fire: 4 stars
David Scrimshaw rated Breakfast of champions: 4 stars

Breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut
Breakfast Of Champions is vintage Vonnegut. One of his favorite characters, aging writer Kilgore Trout, finds to his horror that …











