Crossing Raukawa Moana next week to visit Te Wai Pounamu. Lots of reading time, so loading up on a theme. Cats are evil mass murderers, so @scalzi s Starter Villain & Tom Mead's Murder Wheel are both apt, and the unique ancient fauna of #Aotearoa needs to be saved from them, so KPS also fits.
There's a problem with "Starter Villain" though. How could anyone claim that the idea of cats as macchiavellian murderous managers is FICTION? 🤔 #ebooks#sf#mystery#AmReading@bookstodon
Decided to do a re-read of one of my favorite space opera series. Ryk spins a really fun yarn! Also diving into Greta's 'Climate Book' I expect to be fuming by the time I finish it.
I loved "Skippy dies", but this time I have mixed feelings.
Murray writes very well, making you want to read on and on. The story is told from four perspectives. The characters are only partly aware of the others' story, so as a reader you have to put the pieces together. This works very well.
But I found it all a bit too much: a bit too long, the psychology a bit too heavy, the storylines a bit too far-fetched.
Finished Legends and Lattes this morning. The last 20-30 pages really picked up the pace and boosted the book's overall rating from 3.5 to 4. A very fun and relaxing read, without too much depth or plot. But that can be allright too!
Maybe I'll pick up the new book by the same author too. Anyone started with that already?
I'm reading EX-WIFE (https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2142191.Ex_Wife) by Ursula Parrott. Written in 1929, the language is so 2023 modern despite being written 100 years ago. Name checks Fitzgerald & Hemingway in the book who are Parrott's contemporaries. @internetarchive has it available. A++ Would recommend.
“We can't do anything without each other. But it's the greedy ones, the cruel ones, who hold together and strengthen each other. And those who won't join them stand each alone...Nobody can be free alone. Not even a mage. All of them working their magic in prison cells, to gain nothing. There's no way to use power for good.”
Exactly my thoughts about the Creator and the state of the world
"But there were things to suggest to a thinking man that the Creator of mankind had a very oblique sense of fun indeed, and to breed in his heart a rage to storm the gates of heaven...
...The mugs, for example.
They had legends on them like A Present From the Holy Grotto of Ossory, or To The World’s Greatest Daddy" #SmallGods#terrypratchett#discworld#discworldquotes#reading@bookstodon#books#amreading#literature