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Deborah Pickett

futzle@outside.ofa.dog

Joined 2 years, 6 months ago

Technical nonfiction and spec fiction. She/her. Melbourne, Australia. Generation X. Admin of Outside of a Dog. BDFL of Hometown (Mastodon) instance Old Mermaid Town (@futzle@old.mermaid.town). Avatar image is of a book that my dog tried to put on their inside.

My rating scale: ★ = I didn't care for it and probably didn't finish it; ★★ = It didn't inspire but I might have finished it anyway; ★★★ = It was fine; ★★★★ = I enjoyed it; ★★★★★ = I couldn't put it down.

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Deborah Pickett finished reading The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

Paul J. McAuley: The Quiet War (2009, Gollancz)

It was fine. I didn't particularly love any of the characters, and I'm struggling to recall much of the plot now. I see it's the first in a series of four, and I can borrow the second, so maybe I will check it out at some point.

Deborah Pickett rated Kraken: 3 stars

Kraken by China Miéville

Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in the UK by Macmillan, and …

Deborah Pickett started reading The Quiet War by Paul J. McAuley

Last read one of Mcauley’s books 25 years ago in “Pasquale’s Angel”. Suspect this’ll be very different.

Deborah Pickett finished reading Kraken by China Miéville

Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …

Slogged through it, finally. I think I have to accept that the default for China Miéville is “it’s fine”, with the occasional rare masterpiece.

Deborah Pickett commented on Kraken by China Miéville

Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …

Oh, this is getting very weird in a kind of horror-adjacent way that I am disliking. Book, you are on notice.

Deborah Pickett started reading Kraken by China Miéville

Kraken is a 2010 fantasy novel by British author China Miéville. It is published in …

Recommended to me on Mastodon when I mentioned I was reading The City and the City.

Deborah Pickett finished reading The City & the City by China Miéville

China Miéville: The City & the City (Paperback, 2011, imusti, Pan Publishing)

Oh yes, so satisfying. The whole crosshatched city premise pervades the whole story and makes for a thrilling read. One of my top five books of all time.

Deborah Pickett started reading The City & the City by China Miéville

Had insomnia, this was the only recently-unread book on my ereader.

Deborah Pickett finished reading The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #3)

N. K. Jemisin: The Stone Sky (Paperback, 2017, Orbit)

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

The Moon will …

It was … fine, I guess? I feel like this was a different story than what I’d started in book 1. Maybe I’ll write a longer review later.

Deborah Pickett commented on The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)

N. K. Jemisin: The Obelisk Gate (EBook, 2016, Orbit)

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …

Content warning Spoilers The Broken Earth trilogy

It’s taken me one and a half books to figure out what the derogatory word “rogga” is supposed to correspond to in our world. I’m slow sometimes.

Deborah Pickett started reading The Stone Sky by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #3)

THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.

The Moon will …

Book three, here we go.

Deborah Pickett finished reading The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …

The difficult second novel. Didn’t excite as much as The Fifth Season but I’ll plough on.

Deborah Pickett started reading The Obelisk Gate by N. K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #2)

The season of endings grows darker as civilization fades into the long cold night. Alabaster …

Straight onto book two.

Deborah Pickett finished reading The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N. K. Jemisin

N. K. Jemisin: The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) (2015)

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across …

Not a perfect story, but very good worldbuilding and well told.

Deborah Pickett started reading The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1) by N. K. Jemisin

A SEASON OF ENDINGS HAS BEGUN.

IT STARTS WITH THE GREAT RED RIFT across …

This feels more like Fantasy than anything I've read for a while, but it's won a shitton of awards, so I'm looking forward to it.