Rambling Readers

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Rambling Readers is a friendly community of book lovers. You can track your reading, talk about books, write reviews, and discover what to read next.

We are a UK based instance of BookWyrm. Anyone is welcome to join and no particular genre is favoured. You can follow and interact with users on other BookWyrm instances and on Mastodon.

We are committed for the long term to the Bookwyrm project, to maintaining the Rambling Readers instance, and to ensuring a responsive and reliable user experience.

Where feasible we use independent small companies to provide and support our instance. This includes Mythic Beasts (Cambridge, UK) for server infrastructure, Prolateral Consulting (Luton, UK) for SMTP (email) services and Cronitor (Berkeley, USA) for server monitoring. Mythic Beasts very kindly provide us with a 25% discount on virtual server and storage fees.

If you have any questions email admin@ramblingreaders.org. Follow us on Mastodon for updates.

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Recent Books

Jodi Taylor: And the Rest is History (2017) 5 stars

And the Rest is History

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No one knows quite how, but Max and her baby are safe at last.

No one knows quite how, but Peterson has persuaded Dr Foster to marry him.

No one knows quite how, but Markham’s marital status remains unknown.

Certainly no one knows quite how a twelve-foot-high teapot could mysteriously …

Alex Pavesi: Eight Detectives (2020, Penguin Books, Limited) 5 stars

Eight Detectives

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There are rules for murder mysteries. There must be a victim. A suspect. A detective. The rest is just shuffling the sequence. Expanding the permutations. Grant McAllister, a professor of mathematics, once sat down and worked them all out – calculating the different orders and possibilities of a mystery into …