joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Wrath by John Gwynne
Events are coming to a climax in the Banished Lands, as the war reaches new …
Worthwhile conclusion to an okay Fantasy tale
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joachim@lire.boitam.eu commented on Ruin by John Gwynne
The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered …
Trying to get back into it after a couple of months
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated Fireheart Tiger: 3 stars
Fireheart Tiger by Aliette de Bodard
Fire burns bright and has a long memory….
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading The High Crusade by Poul Anderson
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an …
Very entertaining read. What if alien invasion, but in the times of the crusades? What if longbows and war horses against atomic bombs? What if English feudal barbarism against extraterrestrial empire civilizations?
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated A Prayer for the Crown-Shy: 5 stars
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
A short, great read. I long for that kinda life.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is …
Short and sweet, despite the poisons and the corpseless heads.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu commented on Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is …
Viewing this book on Goodreads I saw a list for well written comfort books where people are nice to each other, and I gotta say, this book is exactly that. So I made a list on here with books I read/I'm reading soon. It's an open group, so please feel free to contribute with your faves from Science Fiction & Fantasy. Basically, the closest it makes you feel to a book from Becky Chambers, the best it'll fit in this list.
lire.boitam.eu/list/61/s/books-where-people-are-nice-to-each-other
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed The Quantum Magician by Derek Künsken
Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of …
Good, efficient SF.
4 stars
Interesting concepts, well-made story, many characters have multiple dimensions, it can be read quickly.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Two Wheels Good by Jody Rosen
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world
“The …
An history of how we've been thinking about bicycles
4 stars
Loads of things to learn in this book. The author is clearly big on bikes, and many of his reportages show it.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Foundryside by Robert Jackson Bennett
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a …
Really interesting magical system!
4 stars
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Eyes of the Void by Adrian Tchaikovsky
After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty …
Both action- and concept-packed
5 stars
joachim@lire.boitam.eu wants to read Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
Miyamoto Musashi …
I found this absolute brick of a book in a "give one take one" box, so I couldn't pass it up.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated Station Eleven: 5 stars
Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …