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Much of my "reading" these days is actually audiobooks while walking.
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Content warning Spoiler about "Jackal"
@Tak@reading.taks.garden The blurb reminds me a bit of
book.dansmonorage.blue/book/90243/s/jackal
Although that's not as clear from the beginning. And Jackal is more obviously about anti-black racism.
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled from polite society following an …
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun
In …
The Mesoamerican (?) world is interesting, and the explicit use of timestamps on each chapter (including foreshadowing, jumping back and forth) is somewhat unique, but the book definitely leaves the reader with that "Ooops I started a trilogy" feeling.
A god will return When the earth and sky converge Under the black sun
In the holy city of Tova, …
“The Lathe of Heaven” ; 1971 ( Ursula Le Guin received the 1973 Locus Award for this story) George Orr …
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary …
On sale for CAD3.00 DRM Free various places (including ebooks.com and amazon)
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, …
On sale for CAD3.00 DRM Free various places (including ebooks.com and amazon)
@mouse@bookwyrm.social I think T. Kingfisher has a bit of thing for nuns as central characters.
Lamat Paed understands paradoxes. She's a great mountain climber who's never summited, the author of a tell-all that didn't really …
Glued to a crocodile, swallowing fossils, or shoes melted by lava... Scientists working on all continents share their best stories, …
@whami@bookwyrm.social I wonder if I should give these another try. Somehow I didn't click with this the first time read it.
Ester's family was torn apart when a manticore killed her mother and baby brother, leaving her with nothing but her …
@ansate@bookwyrm.social I remember that annoyance with the first book. I stopped there, but maybe I will eventually give it another chance.
From New York Times bestselling and critically acclaimed author Daniel Abraham, co-author of The Expanse …
This book shares with many fantasy novels a roughly early modern European setting and main characters who are poor, somewhat principled criminals living on the margins of that setting (the latter also reminds me a bit of the author's portrayal of the economically marginalized in the Expanse as well) . There is an aspect of systematic racism in the world, where the poor people just happen to be be one ethnic minority and live on one side of the river. By magical realism I mean that while magical elements are important, the plot is mainly about more mundane things that might get nudged one way or the other by magic (or by luck). All of this is well and good (if not especially unusual in contemporary fantasy), but what made the book a bit more interesting for me was the way it played with the ideas of hero/antihero/main-character/supporting-character in interesting …
This book shares with many fantasy novels a roughly early modern European setting and main characters who are poor, somewhat principled criminals living on the margins of that setting (the latter also reminds me a bit of the author's portrayal of the economically marginalized in the Expanse as well) . There is an aspect of systematic racism in the world, where the poor people just happen to be be one ethnic minority and live on one side of the river. By magical realism I mean that while magical elements are important, the plot is mainly about more mundane things that might get nudged one way or the other by magic (or by luck). All of this is well and good (if not especially unusual in contemporary fantasy), but what made the book a bit more interesting for me was the way it played with the ideas of hero/antihero/main-character/supporting-character in interesting ways.
