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Gen's Shelves
Occasional rambles about books I felt strongly enough to review, when I had free time enough to do it.
Currently reading
The Isle of Glass
The Broken Crown
Deep Atlantic: Life, Death and Exploration in the Abyss
L'élégance du hérisson
Religion and the Decline of Magic: Studies in Popular Beliefs in Sixteenth and Seventeenth Century England
A History of Ancient Egypt: From the First Farmers to the Great Pyramid
Tiger, Tiger
Survival
Tomorrow's Magic
Warrior
The Secret Service Girl
Does pretty much what it says on the tin! If you're looking for a '60s thriller containing a dastardly plot to blow up Gibraltar, a family (husband, wife, & her brother) of spies whose intelligence varies somewhat with the needs of the plot, and a climax containing the DIRE THREAT of being torn apart by Barbary apes(?!) -- and if you're willing to overlook an unfortunate amount of Hollywood Racist Caricature Arabs, which I found rather difficult to overlook at some points -- then this is the book for you. If it's not, you're probably not planning to pick up a book called The Secret Service Girl anyway.
