Mostly reading sci-fi, fantasy, and comics/graphic novels, but occasionally some other stuff too.
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77% complete! Barbarius has read 31 of 40 books.
They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One …
You surprise me, Hastings. Do you not know that all celebrated detectives have brothers who would be even more celebrated than they are were it not for constitutional indolence?
— The Big Four by Agatha Christie (Page 128)
"Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream …
"Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream …
"Our destiny is the stars, and I will lead us there." Twenty years after this promise, billionaire Langford Skaargard's dream …
When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to a fantasy world and …
That was enjoyable. But it feels like the author has a huge world with an incredible history and lore developed and we only get a teeny tiny sneak peak at it. Apparently it only went for another six issues after this?
When she was just a girl, Abbie discovered a portal to a fantasy world and has since had great adventures …
The Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was created in a surge of revolutionary self-determination that rejected both the free-market-Capitalism of …
They are a vicious international quartet of criminals known as "The Big Four". Number One was a brilliant Chinese, the …
Two children. Two locations. One climate crisis.
In the Arctic wilderness, Yuki and her dog …
Very good. Not at good as Illegal, IMO, but still excellent.
Two children. Two locations. One climate crisis.
In the Arctic wilderness, Yuki and her dog are being stalked by a …
This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to …
Oh goodness... Where are my kids, I need to hold them forever 😭
This is a powerful and timely story about one boy's epic journey across Africa to Europe, a graphic novel for …
@Tak@reading.taks.garden that's an interesting sounding blurb. I'll be interested to hear what you think once you're done.
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender …
Look, this book is good. I'll say that from the outset. Is it as good as the other ten Ender/Shadow books before it? On balance, I'd say probably not (with the exception of Xenocide maybe), but what it does hit me with most of all is nostalgia. After the first book in each of the Ender and Shadow series the story arcs completely diverge. This book reconnects them in a completely legitimate way, and brings all the characters back together for the first time in twenty years (for us, not them) for a final story. So it definitely felt nice to have all these characters from different stories in the same book. But one thing that's different, and a little bit weird for me at least, in this story is that both Ender and Bean – the two main characters of the two series – are absent. It's fine, and …
Look, this book is good. I'll say that from the outset. Is it as good as the other ten Ender/Shadow books before it? On balance, I'd say probably not (with the exception of Xenocide maybe), but what it does hit me with most of all is nostalgia. After the first book in each of the Ender and Shadow series the story arcs completely diverge. This book reconnects them in a completely legitimate way, and brings all the characters back together for the first time in twenty years (for us, not them) for a final story. So it definitely felt nice to have all these characters from different stories in the same book. But one thing that's different, and a little bit weird for me at least, in this story is that both Ender and Bean – the two main characters of the two series – are absent. It's fine, and there's no issue with it, but I was keenly aware of the hole they both left.
The only other thing that I felt let down by was the complete absence of the revelation (regarding the Formics) that occured at the end of Shadows in Flight. It was pretty significant, and basically made no impact at all.
But still: good book. Go read it. (after you've read the other ten first)
Orson Scott Card's The Last Shadow is the long-awaited conclusion to both the original Ender …
ALL finished...
