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See You in the Cosmos
Jack Cheng
Exploring Space: From Galileo to the Mars Rover and Beyond
Stephen Biesty, Martin Jenkins
The Terranauts: A Novel
T.C. Boyle
A Quiet Kind of Thunder
Sara Barnard
Gumnut Babies
May Gibbs
Progress: 42/264 pages
Highly Illogical Behaviour
John Corey Whaley
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Revenger
Alastair Reynolds
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See What I Have Done
Sarah Schmidt
The Dog, Ray
Linda Coggin
Forgetting Foster
Dianne Touchell

Reading progress update: I've read 86 out of 123 pages.

Odd and the Frost Giants - Neil Gaiman, Chris Riddell

'I'm here to drive the Frost Giants from Asgard,' explained Odd. Then he smiled at the Giant, a big, happy, irritating smile.

It was the smile that did it. If Odd had not smiled, the Giant would simply have picked him up and crushed the life from him, or squashed him against the boulder, or bitten his head off and kept him to snack on later. But that smile, a smile that said that Odd knew more than he was saying...