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• The Mote in God's Eye

  by Larry Niven, Jerry Pournelle

  Finished 2016-09-20

• A Torch Against the Night

  by Sabaa Tahir

  Finished 2016-09-08

• Fear the Sky

  by Stephen Moss

  Finished 2016-09-04

• The Forgotten Room

  by Lincoln Child

  Finished 2016-08-26

• Pretty Girls

  by Karin Slaughter

  Finished 2016-08-22

• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-08-17

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-08-09

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-08-09

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Cursed Child The Official Playscript of the Original West End Production

  by Jack Thorne, J.K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-08-01

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

  Original Review

  I'd be curious to see this live. The medium did it no favors - the writing style is so far from Rowling's that it read more like fanfic than the "real thing."

  The story itself is fun and interesting. The pacing is more like a play than a novel so I’ll grant it some leeway there.

  The dialogue is often quite bad and feels like it was written by someone unfamiliar with the characters he’s writing.

  Happy to have gotten a little more time in the Potterverse; kind of bummed/underwhelmed in what I ended up getting. Beggars can’t be choosers I suppose.

• Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-07-21

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban

  by J.K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-07-15

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-07-11

  Note: please see my 2025 Note Re: Rowling

• Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  by J. K. Rowling

  Finished 2016-07-07

  Note: please see my 2025 blog post re: Rowling

• Stranger in a Strange Land

  by Robert A. Heinlein

  Finished 2016-07-01

• Infomocracy

  by Malka Ann Older

  Finished 2016-06-27

  Kind of fun. Felt a lot like Snowcrash early on, but went much more toward politics than tech and action. The characters weren’t very fully developed and the whole thing felt kind of light. But I appreciated that so much of the world was insinuated rather than spelled out. If there were a sequel (the plot was fully realized but I could see more here), I’d probably pick it up.