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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
Goodreads Author
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in The United Kingdom
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June 2013
URL
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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24 editions
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A Case of Possession (A Charm of Magpies, #2)
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2014
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18 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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16 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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Think of England (England World, #2)
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2014
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18 editions
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The Sugared Game (The Will Darling Adventures, #2)
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2020
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The Gentle Art of Fortune Hunting (The 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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A Fashionable Indulgence (Society of Gentlemen, #1)
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2015
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10 editions
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What Are You Reading?
One of my favourite things to do when I’m writing is work out what my characters are reading.
This is one of those areas where you can do a lot in a small way: set scenes, hint at moods, illuminate character. And from my perspective as a historical novelist, knowing what old-timey classic was once the most up-to-date bestseller is one more brick in the edifice of historical vibes.
I’m going to pick
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K.J.’s Recent Updates
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| Very sweet sapphic neurodivergent romance between ADHD chaos bunny artist and autistic flower-grower. The conflict is really very much in their respective heads: Opal struggles with impulse control, emotional lability, and self esteem, while Pepper i ...more | |
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| A new Jonathan L Howard is always a pleasure. I've never played the game this is a tie in to, but you know, Lovecraft. It's a romp through foggy Victorian Britain, with a slightly HG Wells quality along with HP Lovecraft. Fake mediums, Mancunian copp ...more | |
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| Marley and Nikhil had a high school fling. Now she's a personal shopper and he's about to star in the latest superhero movie although he hates the publicity. So far so standard, but Marley is about to have a preventive double mastectomy. AKA this is ...more | |
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Lesbian Jewish screwball heist romcom in space. You don't get many of those to the pound. This is a bit of oddball in some ways. It's very much a screwball heist comedy caper in the spirit of old movies, down to bursts of dialogue you could imagine J ...more |
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| One of those anthology-ish books where you get a couple of pages on each colour / stone / insect / whatever. As such it's interesting to dip into and useful for browsing for ideas. ...more | |
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How have I never heard of this book or author before? Why hasn't this been filmed? Craps all over Mad Max. So this is brilliant. In a post climate collapse America, a variety of hardscrabble losers are hanging on by their fingernails and more or less ...more |
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God this is the greatest book in the world. I've read this probably thirty times in all the translations I can get my hands on. This is one of my favourites: not as smooth as the Glenny but a lot more accurate, and balances the fantasy, satirical, an ...more |
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Lagos-set murder mystery with a forensic psychologist detective, investigating the disappearance of the wife of a megachurch's evangelical bishop. It's a great premise and there's a lot to like in this series but there's a kind of cumulative attitude ...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
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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
