Dr Ms Kat commented on The Deluge by Stephen Markley
72% through what may be the most depressing book I've ever read. It's compelling - I want to finish it - but it cuts a bit too close. And it's very long.
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Dr Ms Kat commented on The Deluge by Stephen Markley
This book is starting to grow on me. Still only a quarter through it but less concerned about whether I'm going to end up finishing it.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are …
I sometimes have trouble with how seriously high fantasy takes itself. This is probably a me problem.
Dr Ms Kat commented on The Deluge by Stephen Markley
I am 10 pages in and I already hate the main character (of this chapter? The whole book? Unsure). Hopefully they have a redemption arc.
Dr Ms Kat started reading The Deluge by Stephen Markley
Someone recommended this to me (I can't remember who - maybe through work?) and it was discounted on the Kobo store so I bought it. Let's see what it's like.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Red Scholar's Wake by Aliette de Bodard
Xich Si: bot maker, data analyst, mother, scavenger. But those days are over now-her ship …
This was lovely but I think I might have had enough of reading this author for a while. Even though I appreciate the gender perspectives and mindship-human romances.
Dr Ms Kat started reading The Great Hunt by Robert Jordan
The Forsaken are loose, the Horn of Valere has been found and the Dead are …
Listening to this as an audiobook, I always forget that counts as reading a book.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
This was great, but also awful. You know those books where something traumatic happens, but there's closure, so you figure you're near the end, but then you realise you still have a third of the book to go? Yeah that.
Dr Ms Kat started reading How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want …
This was a recommendation from @koosli@outside.ofa.dog
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Kaiju Preservation Society by John Scalzi
Jamie’s dream was to hit the big time at a New York tech start-up. Jamie’s …
This was mainly a good fun romp (although some unpleasant things do happen, warning).
Dr Ms Kat finished reading World War 3.1 by John Birmingham
Keen for the next instalment!
Dr Ms Kat started reading World War 3.1 by John Birmingham
Already read a lot of this chapter by chapter through JB's Patreon, but it'll be good to read it as a proper book now.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the …
Super sweet retelling of Sleeping Beauty.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher
There’s a princess trapped in a tower. This isn’t her story.
Meet Toadling. On the …
T Kingfisher never fails to entertain, and usually makes me laugh.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Every Version of You by Grace Chan
In late twenty-first century Australia, Tao-Yi and her partner Navin spend most of their time …
I quite enjoyed this in the end; despite my earlier comment about being parochially set in Melbourne. It's a little depressing, essentially being a tale of slow apocalypse, but weirdly uplifting as well.