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Next week, the earliest cookbook by an African American author will be issued in a new edition, drawn from the only known copy, in the collection of the Clements Library at the University of Michigan. www.lib.umich.edu/about-us/news/more-just-recipes #BlackHistoryMonth #Libraries
‘My mother used to say I was born reaching, which is true. She also used …
I've had this one on my to-read list for ages - I'd better start it now if I'm going to finish in time to read Those Beyond the Wall for #SFFBookClub February
Welcome to Alkhalend, Jewel of the Waters, capital of Usmai, greatest of the Successor States, …
Days of Shattered Faith does feel like a proper sequel to House of Open Wounds. It brings back a bunch of interesting characters from earlier installments, but also introduces some fun fresh faces.
This time around, we're dealing with diplomatic imperialism, integration, and free will, again through a lens of magic, gods, and demons.
It's a solid story, and I'd be interested to follow some of the characters a while longer and see what they get up to.
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
This feels like a big departure from the previous book. The first one was kind of a set of slices of life from a weird fantasy city under occupation, and this one follows one of the characters into an army field hospital.
The main theme seems to be exploration of what it would look like to attempt to rules-lawyer a world with magic, gods, and demons.
I enjoyed it, but I didn't get a real sense of continuity from City of Last Chances - they're essentially two distinct novels set in the same world.
ICMYI: I have a book out that's about found family, disaster sapphics, martial arts in space, neurodivergent shenanigans, and SPACE JELLYFISH (there's an entire chapter called "strobilation". If you know, you know)
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250324887/navigationalentanglements/
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(cover art: Sija Hong)
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
The #SFFBookClub pick for February 2025
City-by-city, kingdom-by-kingdom, the Palleseen have sworn to bring Perfection and Correctness to an imperfect world. …
Latrine digger named Pirisytes
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Daughter of Doctor Moreau and Mexican …
This one takes a while to get going - after several chapters, I was convinced that this was going to be a slice-of-life novel about the glory days of the mexican movie industry as seen from the 90s. (Which it is not (I mean, it is, but there's also more))
It reminds me quite a lot of The Skeleton Key(2005), in a good way.
Good characters; fun, creepy, twisty plot; unique setting.
Blade of Dream (2023, Orbit)
Blade of Dream is a very good sequel to Age of Ash. Instead of continuing the events from the previous book, it tells the story of different characters during the same time period. There are only a few points where events overlap, so it doesn't give that "ugh, I'm just reading a different flavor of the same story again" feeling that you can get from this approach.
I found it especially interesting that one of the main characters in Blade of Dream was a very marginal character in Age of Ash that one of the narrative characters had dismissed as a silly girl with no real agency (and thus the reader implicitly seeing her that way as well), and seeing the stark contrast here.
Based on the company it keeps hachyderm.io/@molly0xfff/113766219774899936
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey …
This is eldritch horror without the Cthulhu. It is weird and obscure and extremely obsessed with architectural minutiae. It rambles quite a bit in the middle, but that's honestly consistent with the tone of the world.
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey …
I feel like I don't know enough about architecture to read this book
Investigator Mossa and Scholar Pleiti reunite to solve a brand-new mystery in the follow-up to …
So pleased to see THE IMPOSITION OF UNNECESSARY OBSTACLES on this Esquire list of the best SFF of 2024 💜💙💜 especially for a sequel, it's an amazing honor!
www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/g60078949/best-sci-fi-books-2024/
The boy was raised as one of the Chained, condemned to toil in the bowels …
The Practice, the Horizon, and the Chain is a deeply dark yet eventually hopeful look at the continuation of current societal structures into space.
Yume Kitasei's The Deep Sky is an enthralling sci fi thriller debut about a mission …
A great combination scifi thriller / space whodunit. It's much more Serious than The Stardust Grail, but explores some similar themes, e.g. betrayal and loss.