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Kat started reading From the Wreck by Jane Rawson
I've read this before, giving it another whirl
Kat finished reading Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Leah is changed. Months earlier, she left for a routine expedition, only this time her …
Re-read and I loved this book even more
Kat finished reading The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
It is the year 1327. Franciscans in an Italian abbey are suspected of heresy, but …
Banger
Kat started reading Condensed Chaos by Phil Hine
Phil Hine: Condensed Chaos
I wonder what the 1990s occultists have to offer
Kat reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring …
Easy, pleasy
4 stars
What the doctor ordered
Kat reviewed Artificial Condition by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #2)
It has a dark past—one in which a number of humans were killed. A past …
Comfy
4 stars
Like the first one this is easy, guilty pleasure sci-fi and frankly just what is needed for me currently!
Kat started reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring …
Let's see if the nerds are right
Let's see if the nerds are right
Kat stopped reading The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
I don't think I'm going to finish this. I'll try again another time.
I don't think I'm going to finish this. I'll try again another time.
Kat started reading The Doomed City by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Kat reviewed The City & the City by China Miéville
Weaches in Breaches
4 stars
Well that was very satisfying! I really enjoy the worlds that Miéville conjures, and I've already started making Besźel/Ul Qoma jokes in my everyday. The setting reminded me very much of Disco Elysium. The conspiracy rang true but I didn't guess in advance, which was nice. I can see myself reading this again knowing what I know now!
Well that was very satisfying! I really enjoy the worlds that Miéville conjures, and I've already started making Besźel/Ul Qoma jokes in my everyday. The setting reminded me very much of Disco Elysium. The conspiracy rang true but I didn't guess in advance, which was nice. I can see myself reading this again knowing what I know now!
Kat reviewed Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Amanda and Clay head out to a remote corner of Long Island expecting a vacation: …
Travel Scrabble, Death?
2 stars
I think we're at the point where US writers are just having a lacklustre wank and idly fantasising about the end of the world. Leave The World Behind sets itself up for some interpersonal drama mixed with race and class politics but then doesn't do much with it. It's mundane, what appears to be a deliberate choice, and with the barest of efforts concludes that society is a myth and having faith in institutions is naïve. So you better go fend for yourselves, kiddies.
I suppose in this sense this book is very much of its time, at least if you're from the US. So bored with being "the leader of the free world" or whatever nonsense and can't be stuffed trying anymore. May as well participate in (and let's be real, cause) an apocalyptic war?
Time to avoid US authors and eschatological themes for a while I …
I think we're at the point where US writers are just having a lacklustre wank and idly fantasising about the end of the world. Leave The World Behind sets itself up for some interpersonal drama mixed with race and class politics but then doesn't do much with it. It's mundane, what appears to be a deliberate choice, and with the barest of efforts concludes that society is a myth and having faith in institutions is naïve. So you better go fend for yourselves, kiddies.
I suppose in this sense this book is very much of its time, at least if you're from the US. So bored with being "the leader of the free world" or whatever nonsense and can't be stuffed trying anymore. May as well participate in (and let's be real, cause) an apocalyptic war?
Time to avoid US authors and eschatological themes for a while I reckon!
Kat reviewed Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads …
Nothing but pointy teeth
4 stars
It's a fun, slightly trashy vampyre novel set in Mexico. I enjoyed it.
It's a fun, slightly trashy vampyre novel set in Mexico. I enjoyed it.
Kat started reading Certain Dark Things by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
"Certain Dark Things combines elements of Latin American mythology with a literary voice that leads …
Time for something light-hearted
Kat reviewed The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
"The Bram Stoker Award-winning author of A Head Full of Ghosts gives a new twist …
Goodbye cruel world
5 stars
Paul Tremblay writes emotional horror. Cabin is eschatological, excruciating, terrifying and hard to predict. As usual Tremblay is sincere and fearless in his writing. Violent, upsetting, but ultimately kind of beautiful.