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catchingshadows

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SF and Fantasy fan. Writer of meta and fic. I occasionally snark about writing. I boost about #autism, #writing, #books and #shinythings

I still haven't come up with a pen name yet.

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Book Review: Redsight by Meridith Mooring Redsight is basically high fantasy disguised as Space Opera. #bookreview #books @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/11/23/book-review-redsight-by-meridith-mooring/

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Book Review: The Bards of Bone Plain by Patricia McKillip In which there is a princess with archaeology for a hobby. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/11/14/book-review-the-bards-of-bone-plain-by-patricia-mckillip/

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How to Socialize Your Aeriat (Fell): Little Wolf Who Cried Girl This is part three of my "Why Fell are not default: evil" series. This one's mostly about Consolation. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/how-to-socialize-your-aeriat-fell-little-wolf-who-cried-girl/

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How to Socialize Your Raksura: Imprinting and Husbandry continuing meta about my favorite bee-dragon people. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/11/11/how-to-socialize-your-aeriat-imprinting-and-husbandry/

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Book Review: Hammerfall by C.J. Cherryh Marak Trin Tain is a man with a mission--evacuate the entire population of a planet to emergency shelters before aliens bombard the surface. @bookstodon @sciencefiction

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/11/06/book-review-hammerfall-by-c-j-cherryh/

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Book Review: Lore of the Wilds by Analeigh Sbrana A fantasy romance with a bit of adventure mixed in. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/01/05/book-review-lore-of-the-wilds-by-analeigh-sbrana/

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Who Fears Death? by Nnedi Okorafor A vividly written post-apocalyptic novel set in the far future. @bookstodon @sciencefiction

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/27/book-review-who-fears-death-by-nnedi-okorafor/

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Book Review: Tsalmoth by Steven Brust In Tsalmoth, all Vlad wants is his 812 gold imperials (plus interest). @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/24/book-review-tsalmoth-by-steven-brust/

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Book Review: Imager by L.E. Modesitt Junior Mr. Modesitt would probably be annoyed about this novel being compared to Fullmetal Alchemist. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/19/book-review-imager-by-l-e-modesitt-jr/

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Book Review: Translation State by Ann Leckie In which we learn more about the Translators. @bookstodon @sciencefiction

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/16/book-review-translation-state-by-anne-leckie/

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Book Review: Fledgling by Octavia Butler Octavia Butler gives a science fiction spin to the vampire mythos. @bookstodon @sciencefiction

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/11/book-review-fledgling-by-octavia-butler/

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Procrastination Book List So I have a bunch of books I haven't read yet or haven't finished yet. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/04/procrastination-reading-list/

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Book Review: System Collapse by Martha Wells This installment takes place not long after the events of Network Effect. @bookstodon @sciencefiction @marthawells
#bookreview #murderbot #sciencefiction #books

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/10/03/book-review-system-collapse-by-martha-wells/

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@amphianna @bookstodon @sciencefiction @marthawells Ack! I'll fix it! >_< Thanks, I did not intend to misgender it.

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@amphianna @bookstodon @sciencefiction @marthawells Also, I feel I don't deserve that level of censure as that was the only "his" in the review. I managed the correct pronoun in most other cases within the article. A head's up on the typo is one thing, out and out scolding is another. :/

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@CuriousMagpie @bookstodon @sciencefiction @marthawells It will be worth the wait!

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Book Review: Dark Moon Shallow Sea by David R. Slayton. One's a sun knight who keeps getting burned, the other is a thief with a shady past: things happen.
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/09/30/book-review-dark-moon-shallow-sea-by-david-r-slayton/

catchingshadows, to fantasy
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How to Socialize Your Aeriate: Ring Species An essay about Martha Well's books of the Raksura. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/09/20/how-to-socialize-your-aeriat-ring-species/

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Book Review: Defiance by CJ Cherryh and Jane S. Fancher --This book takes a worryingly retrospective turn in regards to Ilisidi. @bookstodon @sciencefiction

https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/09/14/book-review-defiance-by-cj-cherryh-and-jane-s-fancher/

catchingshadows, to fantasy
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@bookstodon @fantasy I got a galley copy of the 50th Anniversary edition Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia McKillip!! I am Excite!

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@BertL @bookstodon @fantasy the 50th anniversary addition won't be out til February! Alternately, you can see if the nearest used bookstore has it.

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Tsalmoth is about 15% read. Younger! Vlad is such a "I got mine," dudebro. 🙄 At the same time, the giddy "I'm gonna get married and I have no idea what I'm doing," is pretty funny. Weirdly, in Yendi he doesn't seem this young. @bookstodon @fantasy In other news, I am one of many, many people who have highlighted The First Clue That Cawti/Vlad Will Be A Trainwreck Eventually.

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@bookstodon @fantasy Okay, not the very first clue, but at least the first clue in this book. (Previous hint is actually in Yendi.)

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Book Review: Starter Villain by John Scalzi In which a writer who wants to open a bar finds out he's inherited a Villain's Lair. https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/08/24/book-review-starter-villain-by-john-scalzi/ @bookstodon @sciencefiction

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In which I babble about Moon being the Action Girl of Books of the Raksura
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/08/21/moon-is-a-pretty-princess-no-really/

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Reiterated Thoughts on a Divorce: Cawti and Vlad and their relationship. @bookstodon
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https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/08/15/reiterated-thoughts-on-a-divorce/

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Book Review: War for the Oaks by Emma Bull In which a rock and roller is dragged into a war between the Seelie and Unseelie courts. @bookstodon
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Book Review: The Thread That Binds the Bones by Nina Kiriki Hoffman https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/07/19/book-review-the-thread-that-binds-the-bones-by-nina-kiriki-hoffman/ In The Thread That Binds the Bones, two people are drawn together and end up dealing with an extremely dysfunctional community of magic users. @bookstodon @fantasy

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Book Review: A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik A magical school fantasy featuring a possible future Dark Sorceress who would prefer not to be. @bookstodon @fantasy https://catchingshadows672971735.wordpress.com/2023/01/21/book-review-deadly-education-by-naomi-novik/

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@Frantasaur @bookstodon @fantasy She is so angrily, resentfully, spitefully good. (I need the finish The Last Graduate and read The Golden Enclaves.)

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