I have #mecfs so I have a lot of time for reading, mostly #fantasy and #SciFi but I'm happy to dip into nearly anything.
Ratings: 1 star: I didn't like it 2 stars: it was okay 3 stars: I liked it 4 stars: I really liked it 5 stars: it was brilliant
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Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free.
Under the Martial Empire, …
(2 stars = it was okay)
Well done, but lacking in originality. All the YA fantasy tropes are there: training school, underground resistance, trials, dark magic, love triangle, disturbing violence. Sucked me in but left me with nothing.
An intellectually disabled man undergoes a procedure that makes him a genius, but the cost of intelligence and self-knowledge is high. Heart-rending & sensitively done.
Reading time 3 days, 79 pages/day
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Life on a Greek Island during World War 2. Satirises the idiotic incompetence of the warmongers, while celebrating the quirky humanity of the rest.
Time of Contempt (Polish original title: Czas pogardy, early title was translated less literally as …
Much improved on the first book, though still too much banter and an obfuscating flood of names & places.
Reading time 2 days, 166 pages/day
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The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival on a terraformed planet.
Thousands …
By the acclaimed author of Welcome To Nowhere River comes a heart-warming and uplifting story …
What a riot! An underappreciated housewife/mother finds friendship, support & unbridled feminism in a Hobartian women's choir. The wanker men soon get their come-uppances. Not subtle but a rollicking good time.
What if family were not the only place you might hope to feel safe, loved, …
The nuclear family is a patriarchal institution of oppression & capital, and yet remains unquestioned. Thought-provoking & disruptive but short on constructive ideas. Heavy on the lib arts jargon.
Wild Woila
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Florida is slipping away. As devastating weather patterns and rising sea levels gradually wreak havoc …
Stunning, a climate apocalypse grounded in our current reality, that powerfully conveys a violent experience of living through a lifetime's decline in an intensely personal and local story - no boom-post-apocalypse, yet so many sharp inflections of loss and choosing between things you thought wouldn't matter til after you were gone away. It would be bizarre to call this a hopeful novel, but the undercurrent grows towards acceptance and dependence in the face of uncertainty, and it is beautifully done.
Indigenous life on the edge of a deeply racist outback town. Plot is unremarkable but intriguingly entwines with ancestors and Dreaming to a resounding crescendo which ... hangs, leaving much unclear and unresolved.
Five New Yorkers must come together in order to defend their city.
Every city has …
New York comes alive, through six human avatars, but something in the multiverse isn't happy. Explosively creative & often funny. Shares a deep love for the city & its people. Clever use of identity politics and gentrification.
Easy money lands a fisherman in hot water off the coast of SE Aus. The love of a good woman and a the Indigenous community help him through. I loved the narrative voice: a distinctive gentle and self-aware masculinity.
A road trip novel where the desire for a fresh start gets hijacked by lost boys with wild schemes. Fairly enjoyable. Tragicomic.
Fortune favors the bold. Magic favors the liars.
Ren is a con artist who has come to the sparkling city …
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq.
Then a search of …
