Dr Ms Kat started reading Marvellous Light by Freya Marske
The first book in the Last Binding trilogy, A MARVELLOUS LIGHT is a queer historical …
My partner has read this and given a positive review so hoping for good things.
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Dr Ms Kat finished reading Liberty's Daughter by Naomi Kritzer
Beck Garrison lives on a seastead — an archipelago of constructed platforms and old cruise …
I nearly noped out of this one when I thought it was a story about how good US libertarianism is, but it turned out to be the reverse so I'm glad I stuck eith it.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Sleeper Agent: Revenge by John Birmingham
Didn't finish how I thought it would, a good brain off story.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Sleeper Agent: Revenge by John Birmingham
Not even sure if this is released yet, but I have a copy as one of JB's patrons. There was a character named after me in the first book of this series but I don't think she'll make a reapparance.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout by Cal Newport
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a …
This was interesting. I think I already work like this in broad strokes but it was interesting to see it formalised.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Life Does Not Allow Us To Meet by He Xi
I did not enjoy this one. Maybe some of it was stilted translation, but fundamentally the story is a bit 1950-60s western scifi. Sexism, science worship, etc.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time …
This was lovely, another instalment of the Singing Hills books.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Seeds of Mercury by Wang Jinkang
This was fucking weird. Some deeply problematic disableist attitudes but A+ for starting weird, staying weird, and finishing somewhere I didn't expect.
Dr Ms Kat commented on Seeds of Mercury by Wang Jinkang
It's probably a quirk of translation but this book describes Mercury as having "tongue-shaped cliffs" and I just can't visualise what that's meant to look like.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence …
Finally one of these Hugos nominations redeems itself! This was great, I loved it.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
I know a lot of people really liked this but I found it kind of meh. Fundamentally it's a whodunnit but set on another planet (or moon, I guess), and it has queer characters. But one of them is manipulative and coercive and it did not read as a healthy dynamic to me.
Dr Ms Kat started reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
Anyway moving onto the Hugo novella nominations now.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
This wasn't a bad book but I really struggled to care about any of the characters. Felt like I was just trudging through the last third to get to the end.
Our current definition of “productivity” is broken. It pushes us to treat busyness as a …
Reading this one on work time
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
This was a good read. First book in a series of unknown length.