The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 24

Frankenstein by Mary W. Shelley

Goodreads Blurb: Obsessed with creating life itself, Victor Frankenstein plunders graveyards for the material to fashion a new being, which he shocks into life with electricity. But his botched creature, rejected by Frankenstein and denied human companionship, sets out to destroy his maker and all that he holds dear.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Goodreads Review:Mr. Frankenstein is the worst. I wish I could give you a greater insight into this magnificent work of fiction than that, but to say anything else might betray the story and I have no wish to put a warning label on this review. So I’ll just say again: Victor Frankenstein is the worst.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 23

The Mabinogion Translated by Sioned Davies

Goodreads Blurb: Then they took the flowers of the oak, and the flowers of the broom, and the flowers of the meadowsweet, and from those they conjured up the fairest and most beautiful maiden that anyone had ever seen.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: If I’ve learned anything from reading this book it is that King Arthur needs to keep a better handle on his knights. They keep wandering off and causing all kinds of mischief. Killing people, then marrying their widows, then abandoning those widows to feast for three years. If Arthur would just shut his gates then all this nonsense could have been prevented 🤣

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 22

Love and Let Die: Jame Bond, The Beatles, and the British Psyche by John Higgs

Goodreads Blurb: A deep-dive into the unique connections between the two titans of the British cultural psyche—the Beatles and the Bond films—and what they tell us about class, sexuality, and our aspirations over sixty dramatic years.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Considering it’s subject matter, not nearly enough Ringo in the book.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 21

Paul of Dune by Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson

Goodreads Blurb: Frank Herbert’s Dune ended with Paul Muad’Dib in control of the planet Dune. Herbert’s next Dune book, Dune Messiah, picked up the story several years later after Paul’s armies had conquered the galaxy. But what happened between Dune and Dune Messiah? How did Paul create his empire and become the Messiah? Following in the footsteps of Frank Herbert, New York Times bestselling authors Brian Herbert and Kevin J. Anderson are answering these questions in Paul of Dune.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: *Inhales* This book is better than the first Dune book… *Ducks flying projectile* Yeah, that’s right I said it – come at me! It’s the truth! This book didn’t put me to sleep!

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 20

Dogs of War by Adrian Tchaikovsky

Goodreads Blurb: My name is Rex. I am a good dog. Rex is also seven foot tall at the shoulder, bulletproof, bristling with heavy calibre weaponry and his voice resonates with subsonics especially designed to instil fear.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Rex is a Good Dog. That’s the most, nay the only thing you need to know before going into this book. Rex is a Good Dog. I’m not crying, you’re crying.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 19

The Performance by Ailish Sinclair

Goodreads Blurb: The Performance: sometimes going home for Christmas is just one huge performance…

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: My God that Mother is a bitch. From the diabolical mind that brought you the Dancers Series and Sisters at the Edge of the World, this is a story of a performance in more ways than may seem apparent on first look. Five out of five, but then that’s no surprise with Ailish Sinclair.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 18

The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Goodreads Blurb: This is the extraordinary love story of Clare and Henry, who met when Clare was six and Henry was thirty-six, and were married when Clare was twenty-two and Henry was thirty. Impossible but true, because Henry suffers from a rare condition where his genetic clock periodically resets and he finds himself pulled suddenly into his past or future.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Have you not cried enough today? Then might I recommend this fascinating look into the life of a man who involuntarily time travels, and the woman whose left taking the long road to wait for him.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 17

Changes by Jim Butcher

Goodreads Blurb: Long ago, Susan Rodriguez was Harry Dresden’s lover-until she was attacked by his enemies, leaving her torn between her own humanity and the bloodlust of the vampiric Red Court. Susan then disappeared to South America, where she could fight both her savage gift and those who cursed her with it.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Good book, good character growth – but I’d be lying if I said it was my favourite Dresden Files book.

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The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 16

The Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad

Goodreads Blurb: Heart of Darkness, a novel by Joseph Conrad, was originally a three-part series in Blackwood’s Magazine in 1899. It is a story within a story, following a character named Charlie Marlow, who recounts his adventure to a group of men onboard an anchored ship.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

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Goodreads Review: Reading this book is like having one of those dreams that seem so real you start to doubt your own perception of reality. Strange, unnerving, and something that will always provoke the question ‘did that really happen or did I just dream that’.

The Wee Writing Lassie’s 300 Books in a Year – Book 15

The Land of Painted Caves by Jean M. Auel

Goodreads Blurb: In The land of Painted Caves, Jean M. Auel brings the ice-age epic Earth’s Children series to an extraordinary conclusion. Ayla, one of the most remarkable and beloved heroines in contemporary fiction, continues to explore the world and the people around her with curiosity, insight, and above all, courage.

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Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Goodreads Review: Once again extremely well researched, with technically very well written prose. My only issue is that most of the plot seems to be shoved in right at the end. I think it should have been spread around a little be more – more drama (even if it’s slightly daft drama) and less descriptions of caves 🤣

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