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Some short reviews of books I read. Also I would like to point out that a lot of these I did read for book club - if it's really low rated I probably read it for book club. Life is too short, I usually ditch stuff I don't like.

City of Bones - Martha Wells
( review - 10/10 )

A College of Magics - Caroline Stevermer
( review - 6/10 )

I read several books about the southwestern deserts - A Natural History of the Sonoran Desert by the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum and the North American Deserts by Edmund C Jaeger. Actually I guess I mostly just browsed the second, but the first was a whole collection of essays on all aspects of the Sonoran desert: the geology, weather, physics, and biological life, flora and fauna (reptiles, insects, fish, mammals, birds). Of course, I read the bird section with greatest interest, but a lot of the essays were very interesting and informative. I read it after I came back from Arizona, in true myself fashion, but that helped make the facts stick better and it was nice to re-visit some of the birds I saw.

Light from Uncommon Stars - Ryda Aoki
( review - 4/10 )

Hickory Dickory Dock - Agatha Christie
( review - 9/10 )

Hench - Natalie Zina Walschots
( review - 7/10 )

OK I didn't get through as many as I wanted, more to come.