Finished Der Tod in Venedig by Thomas Mann

Finished Dead Lions by Mick Herron

Exciting and often funny. The ending of the village plot line was great.

Finished Starling House by Alix E. Harrow

Finished The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera

Very imaginative and well written novel. The description of the camp in the second part was stunning to me.

Finished The End of Everything: (Astrophysically Speaking) by @AstroKatie@mastodon.social

Enjoyed it as someone who took some QFT and GR lectures at uni (but no cosmology) and learned some new things. It is very grounded for a pop science physics book: There are no dubious metaphors to make the physics "easy" nor celebrations of total unproven theories, as it is commonplace in the genre.

I also quite enjoy the current podcast of the author with John Green on cosmology.

Finished A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula Le Guin

Finished Hundert Jahre Einsamkeit (orig: Cien años de soledad) by Gabriel García Márquez

Finished The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz

Finished A Conjuring of Light by V.E. Schwab

Finished The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie

Great book that handled the concept of small gods better than even the so-named book. First time second person narration worked for me. Have to get to some of the short stories based on this in Leckie's recently released collection.

Finished How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe by Charles Yu

Finished Starter Villain by @scalzi@mastodon.social

Well written, funny and enjoyable book. The cats and dolphins I liked most, but is was full of creative ideas in handling its subject matter. Also, it is one of the very few novels, I have read, that is exactly as long as it should be. Great editing.

Finished A Gathering of Shadows by V.E. Schwab

Finished A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking by T. Kingfisher

Clever premise and fun novel.

Finished Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

After some reflection I quite enjoy the linking vaultwarden taking 5 minutes. One has time to make a cup of tea, tidy up ones desk a little and contemplate how helpless one would be if the linker crashed.

Finished Some Desperate Glory by Emily Tesh

Very well constructed and well written story about fascist indoctrination, that at some points feels somewhat like (a very good) Star Trek episode.

Finished The Grief of Stones by Katherine Addison

To me, this books is very much about respectfulness for the main character and the handling of the theme.

Finished Chronik eines angekündigten Todes (orig: Crónica de una muerte anunciada) by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Finished Anathem by Neal Stephenson

Incredible novel. Extremely ambitious and it delivers on that. I think it is in some way, strangely enough for a 900-page book, very focused. Great characters, world building and ideas.

I skipped the glossary and note in the beginning and that worked out well for me.