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K.J.’s 2023 Year in Books
Take a look at K.J.’s Year in Books. The long, the short—it’s all here.
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K.J. Charles
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in The United Kingdom
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The Magpie Lord (A Charm of Magpies, #1)
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2013
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4 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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4 editions
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Slippery Creatures (The Will Darling Adventures, #1)
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2020
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8 editions
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The Secret Lives of Country Gentlemen (The Doomsday Books, #1)
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2023
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11 editions
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Flight of Magpies (A Charm of Magpies, #3)
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2014
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14 editions
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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7 editions
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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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16 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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Subtle Blood (The Will Darling Adventures, #3)
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2021
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Band Sinister
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2018
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11 editions
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Where Do You Stop? A musing on HEAs
I was soliciting for blog post ideas and azteclady on Bluesky asked:
I wonder how you know whether a story is part of a series/trilogy, and another is a standalone.
I was poised to make a glib answer, as I so often do. Then I started thinking about it. And I realised that the question here is, How do you know how much of a story to tell?
Our story starts before we’re born and may not wind down fo
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Very readable for an academic book (not trying to be snarky, it's very hard to write readably yet academically.) Thorough and balanced. I'm only on the 20th century bit for research but will doubtless return to earlier sections in due course. I am alm ...more |
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Anthology edited by Indrapramit Das, featuring Vajra Chandrasekera and Samit Basu and Cassandra Khaw and Aliette de Bodard. If you look up "one click" in an illustrated dictionary, there is a picture of this book. And it is indeed very good. Opens wi ...more |
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| Not really SF but no idea how to classify it. I'm always wary of Connie Willis, having enjoyed several of her light comedies and then had my heart punched out by The Doomsday Book. This one is safe, nobody will hurt you. It's a very entertaining, per ...more | |
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| I love the vibe of the Kyle Murchison Booth books. Elegantly created and written, though, as with her Katherine Addison books, I want more in the way of plot/narrative drive. However that's a me problem: this is super atmospheric and does exactly wha ...more | |
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| Highly readable and very interesting history (more a set of essays than a continuous account) digging the traces of medieval European women out of accounts mostly written by men. Lots to relish here, well written, and intersectional with some traces ...more | |
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| Second in this outstanding pair of anthologies of post-war queer men in London up to the moment of legalisation of male homosexual behaviour. There's a good balance between the utter hate-spewing awfulness of the Press and the politicians (then as no ...more | |
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| A short sweet queer fantasy romance, very slow burn due to misunderstanding, which isn't my favourite, but they do start to talk. Cosy and autumnal in feel. ...more | |
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| Absolutely glommed these delightful books set among a pack of lawyers. In this one the locus for trouble is the Woosterish Michael Cantrip, handicapped as he is by his educational disadvantages (Cambridge rather than Oxford). Very very silly in an ex ...more | |
“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
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“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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CONGRATS on the huge news today, KJ! So excited for you and proud of you and amazed by it all...
K.J. wrote: "Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered..."You certainly proved that haha ;)!
Leo wrote: "Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D"Thanks! Flowcharts are much more fun than I remembered...
Thanks for accepting my friend request! Enjoyed your flowchart/ Anne Rice post this morning :D
Gina wrote: "Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)"Thank you so much! Really glad you liked them. (Have you read the in-between freebie, Interlude with Tattoos?)
Hi KJ, thanks for accepting my friend invite. I just finished The Magpie Lord and A Case of Possession, they were awesome!!! :)
Thanks for accepting K.J. And thanks ever so much for Stephen & Crane.
Thank you! Freebie Magpie short will be out in Dec as a little Christmas stocking filler... :-)
Hi K.J. Thanks you so much! I'm a incredibly in love with your words and I'm very impatient for January's release of A Case of Possession. Very. Impatient. :D!
Thank you! I'm really enjoying the sensation of being read, having been a secret writer for ages, so I really appreciate the feedback. :-)
Thanks for accepting KJ. I really am a massive fan. Loving your books. :)
Josephine wrote: "Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x"
Will do - I hope... completely new to this site, I need about a week to get used to it...
Hi KJ - good to see you here! Now you need to upgrade yourself to author status :)Jo x
