Dr Ms Kat finished reading Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
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.
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Dr Ms Kat started reading Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
Mammoths at the Gates by Nghi Vo (The Singing Hills Cycle, #4)
The wandering Cleric Chih returns home to the Singing Hills Abbey for the first time in almost three years, to …
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.
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.
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.
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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 …
Finally one of these Hugos nominations redeems itself! This was great, I loved it.
Dr Ms Kat started reading Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Rose/House by Arkady Martine
Basit Deniau’s houses were haunted to begin with.
A house embedded with an artificial intelligence is a common thing: …
Dr Ms Kat finished reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
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.
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 (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
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.
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 started reading The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
The Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
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 started reading Witch King by Martha Wells
Witch King by Martha Wells
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always been Kai-Enna!
After being …
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.