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.
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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.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the …
This was good fun, a story about a woman pirate on the Indian Ocean before Western domination.
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Ok this was great. Read the whole thing over the course of 24 hours. Don't want to spoil anything but 5 stars, read it.
Dr Ms Kat commented on Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
5 chapters in and I'm already finding this delightful and a breath of fresh air after trudging through my last book.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Starter Villain by John Scalzi
Inheriting your mysterious uncle's supervillain business is more complicated than you might imagine.
Sure, there …
Starting in on the Hugo nominations
Dr Ms Kat finished reading Halo. by William C. Dietz
This turned out to be a bit of a slog. While the first book was a good narrative, this just felt like someone was describing a blow by blow walkthrough the game.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Halo: The Fall of Reach by Eric S. Nylund
Here we go
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Graveyard Shift by Maria Lewis
When a horror-loving radio show becomes the stage of a gruesome murder, its host Tinsel …
This was absolute trash. A good story hiding in there but it was in need of a good edit and a good editor (seriously, "poring" and "pouring" are not the same word). Felt like I was reading fanfic half the time.