K.J.’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at K.J.’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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K.J. Charles
Goodreads Author
Born
in The United Kingdom
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Twitter
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June 2013
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https://www.goodreads.com/kjcharles
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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21 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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17 editions
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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2023
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12 editions
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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15 editions
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (Gentlemen of Uncertain Fortune, #1)
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2021
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11 editions
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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20 editions
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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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2021
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10 editions
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A Nobleman's Guide to Seducing a Scoundrel (The Doomsday Books, #2)
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2023
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7 editions
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Summer Reading But This Time the Books Exist
In a new low for literacy, the Chicago Sun-Times decided to print a Chat-GPT generated article recommending for ‘Summer Reading’ a whole bunch of books that literally don’t exist. Oh, and also Atonement because Ian McEwan is always a great beach read.
I don’t need to rehearse everything wrong with a newspaper uncritically putting out the regurgitron’s unconsidered slop, or the environmental cost of
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K.J.’s Recent Updates
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I once commented sardonically that the new thing would be cosy horror. T Kingfisher's only gone and done it. This is absolutely delightful. A woman escaping a controlling relationship finds herself in her deceased aunt's tiny desert town, where she i ...more |
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| A solid academic overview of supersition, myth and magic during the First World War. Mostly focused on Christian Europe, though with attention paid to Jewish practices and noting that soldiers tended to take a fairly ecumenical approach. Also it's ni ...more | |
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I mean, if you like the Night Vale podcast vein of what I can only call cosy cosmic horror, you'll like this. If you don't, you won't. If you've never listened to it, I wouldn't start with the book. and remember: if you see something, say nothing, an ...more |
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| Third in the series about unwilling medium Claire, in her 30s, perma-haunted by the ghost of a murdered schoolfriend who is an eternal stroppy teenager, and attempting to solve murders as you do. The intriguing thing about this twist on Randall and H ...more | |
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Literary SF. An Indian scientist has supposedly invented an antigravity device, a UK businessman is trying to buy it from him, and his assistant narrates their trip to India. The best way I can put it is that lots nearly happens. It kept me reading t ...more |
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Fantasy romance set in a magical realm based on Australia, which makes a change. I enjoyed absolutely masses of this. The premise is really fun--a prince studying magic is catapulted into kingship by his parents' murder, and struggles with trying to ...more |
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| Second in the epic fantasy series with a Nero Wolfe/Archie Goodwin duo, where the Watson can remember everything (a lovely conceit that explains the amazing ability of the legwork narrator to repeat vast amounts of detail for the slothful genius). Ni ...more | |
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| Putting both the weird and the wild in the West, this is a fantasy Western with stone cold rotten MCs: the Reverend Rook (hexslinger), his lover Chess (freelance psychopathic murderer with issues) and their companion Morrow (a Pinkerton undercover), ...more | |
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“What the fuck, what the fucking, bloody devil-shit, what in the name of Satan's swollen cock was that?”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
“When I fuck you, Mr. Day, it will not be briefly. It will be long and hard and extremely thorough. I'm going to take pains with you.”
― The Magpie Lord
― The Magpie Lord
Polls
What should our October 2018 pick be?
To Kill a Kingdom - Alexandra Christo (High Fantasy, Sirens)
Maplecroft - Cherie Priest (Historical Fantasy, Lovecraftian Sea Monsters)
The Librarian's Vampire Assistant - Mimi Jean Pamfiloff (Urban Fantasy, Vampires)
Skinwalker - Faith Hunter (Urban Fantasy, Shapeshifters, Vampires)
Unholy Ghosts - Stacia Kane (Urban Fantasy, Ghosts, Witches)
When a Gargoyle Awakens - E.A. Price (Paranormal Romance, Gargoyles)
Blood Oath - Raye Wagner (High Fantasy, Dragons)
The Secret Casebook of Simon Feximal - K.J. Charles (Historical Fantasy, Ghosts)
The Ghost on My Couch by L.A. Gilbert (Paranormal Romance, Ghosts)
132 total votes
“When I was ten, I read fairy tales in secret and would have been ashamed if I had been found doing so. Now that I am fifty, I read them openly. When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.”
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
― On Stories: And Other Essays on Literature
“Lying in bed would be an altogether supreme experience if one only had a colored pencil long enough to draw on the ceiling.”
― Tremendous Trifles
― Tremendous Trifles
“Well, are you not going to give the man a round of applause?" he asked. "I mean, that was fucking amazing, didn't you think? Honestly, if you'd asked me ten minutes ago, hypothetically, if it was possible to cut your own head off, I'd have said unequivocally no. You've really got to hand it to the bloke -- though it's fair to say luck was involved. I mean, there's no way he could do it again.”
― Be My Enemy
― Be My Enemy
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You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
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Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
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11 avr. 2023 06:18
01 juin 2025 07:46