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Tales from the Folly
Tales from the Folly: A Rivers of London Short Story Collection | Ben Aaronovitch
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Return to the world of Rivers of London in this first short story collection from bestselling author, Ben Aaronovitch. Tales from the Folly is a carefully curated collection that gathers together previously published stories and brand new tales in the same place for the first time. Each tale features a new introduction from the author, filled with insight and anecdote offering the reader a deeper into this absorbing fictional world. This is a must read for any Rivers of London fan. Join Peter, Nightingale, Abigail, Agent Reynolds and Tobias Winter for a series of perfectly portioned tales. Discover whats haunting a lonely motorway service station, who still wanders the shelves of a popular London bookshop, and what exactly happened to the River Lugg... With an introduction from internationally bestselling author of the Sookie Stackhouse series, Charlaine Harris. This collection includes: The Home Crowd Advantage The Domestic The Cockpit The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Granny King of The Rats A Rare Book of Cunning Device A Dedicated Follower of Fashion Favourite Uncle Vanessa Sommers Other Christmas List Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby Moments One-Three Praise for the Rivers of London series: Ben Aaronovitch has created a wonderful world full of mystery, magic and fantastic characters. I love being there more than the real London Nick Frost A superlative blend of whimsy and grit...Jim Butcher meets Douglas Adams Publishers Weekly ...my favorite current series... delightful, compulsive and freshwith a love of multicultural London evident on every page, wonderfully diverse characters, magic, mystery, and mayhem. Once you start, you will literally not be able to put them down. Lavie Tidhar in Washington Post ...recounted with deadpan British wit and irony...packed with fascinating historical detail... Lively and amusing and different. Kirkus
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Robotswithpersonality
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Reading in the Rivers of London series universe is always a good time. What follows are primary observation from each short story.
The Home Crowd Advantage: cheeky among the pathos.
The Domestic: Little bit grim, little bit sad, wouldn't be an Rivers of London collection without it.
The Cockpit - haunted (? 😏) bookstore!
[Toby cameos!]
The Loneliness of Long-Distance Grannies: Respect your elders. ☺️ 1/?

Robotswithpersonality 2/? A Rare Book of Cunning Devices: Library!!! Librarian with fantastic/mysterious history; unusual book! 😁
A Dedicated Follower of Fashion: Trippy
Favourite Uncle: More Abigail !
Vanessa Sommer's Other Christmas List: I'm hoping this is a character from one of the novellas I've yet to read, because I'm drawing a blank on any other appearances - pleasant diversion as a story.
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Robotswithpersonality 3/3 Three Rivers, Two Husbands and a Baby: One of my favourites of this collection, and particularly happy to see these characters once again, plus answering a curiousity about a new arrival 😉 [side note Leda and the swan reference 👀?]
The Moments that ended the collection just made me want more!
End note by author promised there will be/are more short stories, for now I will satisfy my craving with those novellas I haven't caught up on.
7mo
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annamatopoetry
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More a "sure, why not?" than an enthused yes, but still a pick, because I would like more rivers of london content right now please. Some thoughts: I don't feel like wossname from the west mercia village felt genuine as a queer character in first person, Abigail's foxes are quickly becoming my favorite characters after Peter, I still don't care about Germany.

BookmarkTavern If you like audiobooks, I cannot recommend them enough for this whole series! They are an absolute delight. 13mo
annamatopoetry @BookmarkTavern so I've been told! Maybe if I take a long road trip, I'm super not an audio book person other than on road trips (I don't mind reading on those either, but it's nice if the driver and passenger can enjoy the same media. ) 13mo
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annamatopoetry
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"It's not easy, being a bookseller" , said Warrick Anderson -- bookseller. "
Caved and bought the short story collection and one of the other novellas, but the novella hasn't made it here yet.

Some days make for less nice photos than others.

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julesG
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Fun!

The #audiobook was good. I especially liked the introductions to the short stories by Ben Aaronovitch himself.

Also, Alex Kingston's take on a German accent was nicer to my ears than Sam Peter Jackson's. I'm not likely to listen to The October Man.

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Tineke
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Enjoyable short stories and a quick read. Lovely cover.
TBR since February 22nd. 2022; 221 pages.

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rwmg
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A collection of short stories set in the Rivers of London universe. Enjoyable but I think I am going to have to read the whole series again to fit them in properly in mind.

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rwmg
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DrexEdit I did the same thing last night! 🙂💜 3y
Reggie You look so comfy! 3y
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BookmarkTavern
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A collection of short stories, all within the greater Rivera of London universe. Some from Peter‘s point of view, & some from side characters in other stories.

It‘s comforting to know other authors keep pieces and moments from their stories. 😂 Fun little bits and pieces of the world.

And as much as I love Peter (and Holdbrook-Smith), my favorites were actually Dominic‘s and Abigail‘s. I love the stories where BA explores other POVs. 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌑

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BookmarkTavern
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Going to make some good progress on this #BookSpinBingo #BingoBoard . I can feel it. 🤞🏻

#BookSpin 11 - Tales from the Folly by Ben Aaronovitch

#DoubleSpin - My Contrary Mary by Brodi Ashton, Cynthia Hans, and Jodi Meadows

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 3y
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rabbitprincess
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A holey #BookSpinBingo card for March 2021. Not my most successful month. April will be better 😊

TheAromaofBooks Yay!! Great progress this month!!! 4y
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rabbitprincess
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I haven‘t been able to finish a book in nearly a week, so thank goodness for Tales from the Folly, which I read over the course of this morning. I love this world and deeply appreciated the Ghostbusters joke in one of the stories 😂

rwmg Wishlisted 4y
rabbitprincess @rwmg Yay! 😊 4y
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Centique
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A set of short stories set in the world of my favourite series?Yes, yes, yes! Just a box of treats for the Rivers of London addicts. I love this world so much - the series is basically magical police procedurals. Imagine Harry Potter crossed with The Bill 😂😂 (except more diversity)
I‘ve thrown in the ghostly bits to go with, the horrified octopus is a favourite of mine done by my son aged about 9.

KathyWheeler My husband wants Harry Dresden to come to London and meet the crew of the Folly. 😊 4y
Centique @KathyWheeler I haven‘t read the Dresden series yet but it‘s on my TBR! Sounds like it would be a good crossover 😊 4y
KathyWheeler @Centique If you like audiobooks, James Marsters narrates the Dresden Files and he is fantastic. 4y
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KathyWheeler
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For all y‘all who like the Rivers of London series— did you know about this? I didn‘t. I was looking for something else on Amazon and saw it. ❤️

Tineke I've heard about it. I am part of a bookspiral of this series on Bookcrossing. Just finished book six, will now have to wait for book seven to arrive from Ireland. 4y
KathyWheeler @Tineke I had not heard anything about it; in fact, before I found it, my husband and I had been saying we wished there were more because we‘d finished what was out. I used to belong to Bookcrossing, but I don‘t think they had anything like your bookspiral back then. Sounds like fun. 4y
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One of my favourite series. I figured I would try this out by audiobook and was so in love with the narration that I bought the entire series a second time as audiobooks.

CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian Yes Kobna Holdbrook-Smith is a dream!! I don't think I'd like this series nearly as much if I hadn't experienced it through his voice acting. 4y
sparrowssavvy @CaseyTheCanadianLesbrarian RIGHT?? He is such an amazing narrator! Narrators really make or break it for me 4y
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BookmarkTavern
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Short and sweet today. 📙

1. Tagged! I love this whole series.
2. She Walks in Shadows, edited by Silvia Moreno-Garcia and Paula R Stiles. Stories about the women in the Lovecraft mythos.
3. Both can be great! ❤️

#sundayfunday Have a fantastic day, and don‘t forget to tag me!

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Verity
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I really enjoyed this. I had read less of them than I thought/expected. Not one to introduce you to the series, but if you are a fan you‘ll enjoy this.

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Verity
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Not gonna lie, this hold came in and I‘ve dropped everything I should be reading to read it.

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