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Reading roundup, Farscape, Hugos homework, and recs

hamsterwoman Feb 16, 2019 13:57

4. Steven Brust, Good Guys -- this is an urban fantasy standalone, and it's pretty good? But like everything by Brust that I read which is not Dragaera, it makes me realize that while I pretty much always end up respecting and appreciating the way Brust writes things -- the negative-space storytelling, the dialogue-heavy prose, characters who are ( Read more... )

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Reading roundup and Terra Ignota icons

hamsterwoman Jan 24, 2019 00:26

I lied about going back to RL posts next :P

1. Lois McMaster Bujold, The Flowers of Vashnoi -- The butterbug novella I've been wanting to read for years, ordered as soon as it was available, and then proceeded not to read for months. But a week or so into the new year I was in a reading slump, in the middle of five books without making progress ( Read more... )

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Reading roundup with Lies Sleeping

hamsterwoman Nov 18, 2018 01:09

Ugh, why is cross-posting not working on this...

70. Ellen Klages, White Sands, Red Menace -- the second book in the Gordon Family saga of historical kidlit books, set shortly after The Green Glass Sea. ( I enjoyed this one, too (spoilers) )

a: rainbow rowell, gn, a: tim federle, #tributes, rivers of london, a: frances hardinge, a: ben aaronovitch, reading, #5, a: ellen klages

Reading roundup, including Harry Potter and the Cursed Child

hamsterwoman Aug 09, 2016 11:09

51. Rainbow Rowell, Landline -- after finishing Carry On and Eleanor and Park, I was reminded by ms_geekette that Rowell had also written some adult titles. Attachments, which I also want to read, actually sounded more interesting, but Landline was on sale for like two bucks, so I went with that one. Apparently it was 2014 Goodreads Choice best fiction winner ( Read more... )

a: rainbow rowell, a: andrzej sapkowski, dragaera, link, rivers of london, vlad taltos, harry potter, short stories, a: ben aaronovitch, a: j.k.rowling, a: patricia briggs, reading

Reading roundup

hamsterwoman Aug 01, 2016 00:48

48. N.K.Jemisin, The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) -- So I read Jemisin's debut Hundred Thousand Kingdoms books, the first two, and was underwhelmed. People were praising them to the skies, but to me, the first book was a perfectly ordinary, middle-of-the-road high fantasy story, with the (important, I agree) distinction of a world that did ( Read more... )

a: rainbow rowell, a: n.k.jemisin, a: caitlen rubino-bradway, reading

Reading roundup, vacation edition

hamsterwoman Jul 19, 2016 20:22

44. Jordan L. Hawk, Maelstrom (Whyborne & Griffin #7) -- so, I'm all caught up. I'm a bit ambivalent about this one, though I enjoyed it on the whole. ( Things I liked and things I didn't, with spoilers )

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Reading roundup: WicDiv, Fangirl, more Whyborne and Griffin/SPECTR

hamsterwoman Mar 18, 2016 11:34

19. Kieron Gillen, Jamie McKelvie, Matthew Wilson, The Wicked + The Divine, volume 1 -- this was a book L borrowed from Awesome Friend Allie (or, more likely to say, that Awesome Friend Allie pressed on her in an effort to get L into comics), and L read it and confessed to me she enjoyed it (with a great dose of chagrin, 'cos she knew there would ( Read more... )

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