Finished Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Finished Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Finished Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Amazing book. Incredibly written, inventive, funny and well plotted. It tries its best to annoy the reader(2nd person unreliable narrator, wonky timeline, massive contradictions to the first book, no explanations for anything ever), but enjoyed every minute of it.

Finished Brightfall by Jamie Lee Moyer

It is a beautiful novel about hardship, loss, hope, the forest (specifically Sherwood) and Robin Hood.

Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir

Very unique novel with a main character who is always the least informed person in the room. I really enjoyed the prose, characters and story, despite my usual dislike for skeletons.

Finished Troy by Stephen Fry

A very pleasant retelling of the story of Troy with great footnotes.

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.