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Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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Originally published in 1968, Ursula K. Le Guin’s A Wizard of Earthsea marks the first of the six now beloved …
As Pierre Poilievre closes in on power, journalist Martin Lukacs reveals the playbook behind his …
"Want" might not be the right word here.
@dylankuhn@bookwyrm.social @SallyStrange@bookwyrm.social One thing that struck me on re-reading was how much of a coming-of-age / young-adult book it is. At some point I realized, oh, this protagonist is an adolescent, for better and for worse.
(Maybe because when I first read it I was not much older than Johanna)
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times …
Most literal Deus ex Machina ending I've read in a while.
Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, space faring creatures known …
Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside …
Is this your first assassination attempt? Ah there is nothing like your first time.
— Symbiosis by Nicky Drayden
A spellbinding, propulsive new novel from the bestselling mystery writer who "is in a class …
Based on a review from sunny.garden/@booktrail
A young ruler must forge a delicate alliance with the untrustworthy yet magnetic God of …
I enjoyed Daughter of the Moon Goddess
@DerekCaelin@bookwyrm.social I thought the book was purely decorative. You mean some people read it?
Nearly a thousand years removed from Earth, the remnants of humanity cling to existence inside giant, space faring creatures known …
Trade disputes are usually understood as conflicts between countries with competing national interests, but as Matthew C. Klein and Michael …
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with a darkly inventive portrait of …
Arthur C. Clarke winner and Sunday Times bestseller Adrian Tchaikovsky's triumphant return to fantasy with …
The setting is reminiscent of the industrialized magic setting of Robert Jackson Bennett's Foundryside. There are quite a few narrative threads but I did not find it overwhelming (as an audiobook, fwiw).
The villains are bureaucratic, venal, and hypocritical. They are also a "foreign occupation", but Tchaikovsky spends as much time poking fun at patriotism and nostalgia as he does explaining the (many) failings of the occupiers.
The would-be heroes are various of combinations pompous, naive, violent, passive, venal (again), opportunistic, and cowardly. It is something of a magic trick of character development that one's sympathies are clear. It isn't even that one identifies with some of the character's cynicism (although there is a bit of that).
As an academic, I endorse books where the main villains are academic organizations. Imagine if not only were University administrators not going to save us, but if they were the ones the whole …
The setting is reminiscent of the industrialized magic setting of Robert Jackson Bennett's Foundryside. There are quite a few narrative threads but I did not find it overwhelming (as an audiobook, fwiw).
The villains are bureaucratic, venal, and hypocritical. They are also a "foreign occupation", but Tchaikovsky spends as much time poking fun at patriotism and nostalgia as he does explaining the (many) failings of the occupiers.
The would-be heroes are various of combinations pompous, naive, violent, passive, venal (again), opportunistic, and cowardly. It is something of a magic trick of character development that one's sympathies are clear. It isn't even that one identifies with some of the character's cynicism (although there is a bit of that).
As an academic, I endorse books where the main villains are academic organizations. Imagine if not only were University administrators not going to save us, but if they were the ones the whole of society needed saving from.
I laughed out loud several times while listening to this. At some points it has an almost Pratchett-like wit (if Pratchett had been doomscrolling for another decade, instead of shuffling off this mortal coil).
"In the nineteenth century, English textile workers responded to the introduction of new technologies on …
Move quietly and break things.
