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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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To Read (View all 328)

Pat Murphy: The Adventures of Mary Darling (Paperback, Tachyon Publications LLC)
Kevin Hearne: Candle and Crow (2024, Little, Brown Book Group Limited)
Austin Grossman: Fight Me (2024, Penguin Books, Limited)

Currently Reading

Lev Grossman: The magician king (2011, Viking)

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K.J. Parker: The Two of Swords: Volume One (Orbit)
Kate Heartfield: The Embroidered Book (AudiobookFormat, 2022, HarperCollins UK and Blackstone Publishing)
Steven Brust: Lyorn (EBook, 2024, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

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reviewed The Sisters Brothers by Patrick deWitt

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Patrick deWitt: The Sisters Brothers (2011)

The Sisters Brothers is a 2011 Western novel by Canadian-born author Patrick deWitt. The darkly …

Review of 'The Sisters Brothers' on 'Storygraph'

Some time in the past, I put this book on my "want to read" list, but I don't remember why.

This week, it was available, and I wanted something to read, so I borrowed the ebook.

As soon as I started it, I wondered why. There's no talking cats, no robots, no spaceships. It's a couple of hired guns on their way to California to kill somebody during the gold rush.

Absolutely compelling. Reminded me in a good way of a [a:Guy Vanderhaeghe|98125|Guy Vanderhaeghe|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1253558267p2/98125.jpg] western story or the TV series Deadwood.

I looked it up on Wikipedia and it turns out to be a hugely award-winning Canadian novel. It is also supposed to be "darkly comic". So comic that it won the 2012 Stephen Leacock medal.

This has taught me that I'm not up at all on Canadian literature and maybe I don't have the great sense of humour that …