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Barbarius@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 9 months ago

Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.

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Barbarius's books

To Read (View all 38)

Cory Doctorow: The Reverse Centaur's Guide to Life After AI (Hardcover, english language, 2026, MCD)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Children of Time (Paperback, 2018, Orbit)
Silvia Park: Luminous

Currently Reading

Emily Tesh: The Incandescent (Hardcover, Orbit)
Matt Black: American Geography (2021, Thames & Hudson)
Jeff VanderMeer, Ann VanderMeer: The Time Traveller's Almanac: The Ultimate Treasury of Time Travel Fiction - Brought to You from the Future (Paperback, Head of Zeus)

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Nnedi Okorafor: Death of the Author (William Morrow)
T. Kingfisher: What Stalks the Deep (Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)
Pope Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas (The Holy See)

2026 Reading Goal

67% complete! Barbarius has read 35 of 52 books.

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commented on The Incandescent by Emily Tesh

Emily Tesh: The Incandescent (Hardcover, Orbit)

"Look at you, eating magic like you're one of us."

Doctor Walden is the …

I'm thoroughly enjoying this! Though I do wonder how much of my enjoyment is coloured by the fact that I'm a teacher and this is a story written by a teacher. That is to say, it's a realistic representation of teaching, and not an idealised one with no basis in the day-to-day reality of teaching.

finished reading What Stalks the Deep by T. Kingfisher (Sworn Solider, #3)

T. Kingfisher: What Stalks the Deep (Hardcover, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

The next novella in the New York Times bestselling Sworn Soldier series, featuring Alex Easton …

That was enjoyable, and a good length, I reckon. I wonder if the joke to horror ratio is too much. I love it, but I've come to accept that if I think that it might be verging on too joke dense (but not for me!)

quoted Magnifica Humanitas by Pope Leo XIV

Pope Leo XIV: Magnifica Humanitas (The Holy See) No rating

Encyclical letter of his Holiness Pope Leo XIV on safeguarding the human person in the …

The twentieth-century Catholic author J.R.R. Tolkien, in the words of a protagonist in one of his novels, described our responsibility in this way: "It is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till."

— Magnifica Humanitas by  (Page 80)

Of all the unexpected things in this thoroughly interesting and thought-provoking read, the Pope quoting Gandalf has got to be up there...

finished reading The River Has Roots by Amal El-Mohtar

Amal El-Mohtar: The River Has Roots (Hardcover, 2025)

“Oh what is stronger than a death? Two sisters singing with one breath.”

In …

Incredible writing. Specifically the collection of words formed into sentences to convey meaning. The story is also great, to be clear. But the actual writing is very good, IMO.