Finished The Hidden Palace by Helene Wecker

It is a great novel with great characters. Most characters could have been in novels that stand on their own. I thought historic events in the background, like the Titanic and the World War, were handled very well.

Finished Das Ministerium für die Zukunft (orig: The Ministry for the Future) by Kim Stanley Robinson

Finished Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Great book. Many interesting sci-fi ideas. Maybe even too many for one book.

Finished Die Farben der Magie (orig: The Colour of Magic) by Terry Pratchett

Finished The Fated Sky by Mary Robinette Kowal

Finished The Kaiju Preservation Society by @scalzi@mastodon.social

This is a silly, fun and sometimes overindulgent book, but it knows exactly what it is and what its audience is. I liked it very much. I would love when more great writers would take a break and write a popcorn flick like this.

It is also the first book clearly influenced by the pandemic I have read that is mostly fun and optimistic instead of depressing or bittersweet.

Finished Der Oberst hat niemand, der ihm schreibt (orig: El coronel no tiene quien le escriba) by Gabriel García Márquez

I liked it and to me (without knowing Spanish or the original) the translation by Curt Meyer-Clason seems very good.

Finished A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers

Finished Light From Uncommon Stars by Ryka Aoki

Interesting novel about bargaining of souls, space aliens, gender, donut shops and violin repairs. Sometimes it's as weird as Douglas Adams fiction and sometimes it's more bildungsroman. Very experimental book overall.

Cleaning up a dried date that got into a robot vacuum is much more unpleasant then I would have expected.

Finished Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher

Very good world building and many creative ideas. I liked the pacing, the characters and how the ending resolved it all. The horror aspects were not for me, but it was ok.

finished Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree

I don't care much for coffee, but this was a fast fun read.

Unsure if I really like SAX-style xml parsing or not. At least it is a pretense to build a state machine.

Finished Flüchtiges Begehren (orig: Transient Desires) by Donna Leon

Strange one. Much more thriller-like than the older novels in the series. Otherwise as gripping as expected.

Finished Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Finished The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler

Finished Spear by Nicola Griffith

I disliked the first twenty page, but after that it is brilliant. Great story and great writing.

Finished Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Good and very long book. Language takes some getting used to for a non-native speaker who hasn't read the English classics yet.

The small 7B LLaMa model seams very well suited to write dialoge for bad stoner-comedies. I accidently got it to have an incoherent discussion with itself about the existance of god and the fairies it met. (My input had no reference to religion or mythology at all)

Finished Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

Interesting book and some variety in style between the chapters/parts. I feel like I would get even more from it with a soonish reread. Will think about the story, the structure and it's relation to pop culture for some time.