joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
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.
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joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #1)
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 (The Saint of Steel, #1)
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 (The Quantum Evolution, #1)
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 (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
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 (The Final Architecture, #2)
The Arthur C. Clarke award-winning author of Children of Time brings us the second novel …
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 …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated She Who Became the Sun: 4 stars
She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
Mulan meets The Song of Achilles in …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu started reading She Who Became the Sun by Shelley Parker-Chan
To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything
Mulan meets …
This book I wanted to read for some time, and it'll be a welcome change from what I'm reading right now
joachim@lire.boitam.eu started reading Ruin by John Gwynne (The Faithful and the Fallen, #3)
The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered …
This kind of fantasy is really good when ill.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Red Seas Under Red Skies by Scott Lynch (Gentleman Bastard, #2)
After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke Lamora and his …
Good adventure novel, clever and entertaining
4 stars
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time …