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#26621 Macros

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 08:13 AM

Started The Silk Road

Non fiction

2012
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#26622 QuickTidal

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 12:08 PM

BATTLE GROUND delivered to my kindle this AM, so I'll be pausing SHIPS OF MERIOR to read PEACE TALKS and BATTLE GROUND back to back.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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#26623 TheRetiredBridgeburner

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 12:29 PM

Mine turned up today! However I bought it as a holiday read (we go on Saturday) so I need to resist, because if I start reading it now I'll finish it before we go. Raargh.

- Wyrd bið ful aræd -

#26624 Tsundoku

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 12:30 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 September 2020 - 12:29 PM, said:

Mine turned up today! However I bought it as a holiday read (we go on Saturday) so I need to resist, because if I start reading it now I'll finish it before we go. Raargh.

Remember, delayed gratification makes it all the sweeter.

Goes for books too, or so I've heard.

"Fortune favors the bold, though statistics favor the cautious." - Indomitable Courteous (Icy) Fist, The Palace Job - Patrick Weekes

"Well well well ... if it ain't The Invisible C**t." - Billy Butcher, The Boys

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#26625 QuickTidal

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 12:35 PM

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 September 2020 - 12:29 PM, said:

Mine turned up today! However I bought it as a holiday read (we go on Saturday) so I need to resist, because if I start reading it now I'll finish it before we go. Raargh.

Ooof, that would be tough! Hope you make it!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

“Someone will always try to sell you despair, just so they don't feel alone.” ~Ursula Vernon

#26626 Abyss

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 01:34 PM

QuickTidal, on 29 September 2020 - 12:08 PM, said:

BATTLE GROUND delivered to my kindle this AM, so I'll be pausing SHIPS OF MERIOR to read PEACE TALKS and BATTLE GROUND back to back.

Tsundoku, on 29 September 2020 - 12:30 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 September 2020 - 12:29 PM, said:

Mine turned up today! However I bought it as a holiday read (we go on Saturday) so I need to resist, because if I start reading it now I'll finish it before we go. Raargh.

Remember, delayed gratification makes it all the sweeter.

Goes for books too, or so I've heard.

QuickTidal, on 29 September 2020 - 12:35 PM, said:

TheRetiredBridgeburner, on 29 September 2020 - 12:29 PM, said:

Mine turned up today! However I bought it as a holiday read (we go on Saturday) so I need to resist, because if I start reading it now I'll finish it before we go. Raargh.

Ooof, that would be tough! Hope you make it!

Earbook and massively discounted ebook loaded and rolling. Horus will have to wait.

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#26627 Tiste Simeon

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Posted 29 September 2020 - 11:13 PM

Finished Ghost Story! Onto Cold Days!

A Haunting Poem
I Scream
You Scream
We all Scream
For I Scream.

#26628 polishgenius

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Posted 30 September 2020 - 04:50 PM

Just finished Battle Ground that was pretty good.

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#26629 QuickTidal

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Posted 02 October 2020 - 12:05 PM

Apropos of nothing, and because I came across it while cleaning and realized I'd never finished more than the initial story, I'm reading Susannah Clarke's THE LADIES OF GRACE ADIEU, and it's wonderfully scratching my current itch. It's like little clever snippets of the world of STRANGE & NORRELL.

sidebar: It also prompted me to buy a copy of her newest work PIRANESI.

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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#26630 Imperial Historian

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Posted 02 October 2020 - 04:27 PM

Battleground was fun, typical dresden, but by no means the strongest of the series.

A deadly education by naomi novacs was very fun, if a little on the YA side. If you want Harry Potter where a) hogwarts is actively trying to kill you and

it's narrated by hermione who is sick and tired of harry being a heroic moron, you will like this book. Would recommend.

#26631 QuickTidal

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Posted 02 October 2020 - 05:44 PM

Imperial Historian, on 02 October 2020 - 04:27 PM, said:

A deadly education by naomi novacs was very fun, if a little on the YA side. If you want Harry Potter where a) hogwarts is actively trying to kill you and

it's narrated by hermione who is sick and tired of harry being a heroic moron, you will like this book. Would recommend.

So glad to hear this is good, as it sounds so interesting and I loved Novic's Temeraire series!

"When the last tree has fallen, and the rivers are poisoned, you cannot eat money, oh no." ~Aurora

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#26632 T77

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Posted 03 October 2020 - 12:46 PM

Finished Battle Ground, thought it was good. Less action would have made it better IMO.

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Posted 03 October 2020 - 02:48 PM

T77, on 03 October 2020 - 12:46 PM, said:

Finished Battle Ground, thought it was good. Less action would have made it better IMO.

Yeah whatever, Fomor.

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#26634 Tsundoku

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Posted 05 October 2020 - 09:53 AM

Just finished Son of a Liche - The Dark Profit Saga 2, by J Zachary Pike.

Book 1 was "Orconomics: A Satire".

Dear God, so much fun. Takes the piss out of the GFC, standard fantasy tropes, politics, marketing, racism, etc etc etc. Some hilarious pop culture nods to Lassie, Vader and Luke, Trump and the list goes on.

Underneath it all is also a very entertaining read. It's fast paced and doesn't any more time than necessary on introspection but it's still in there, as is character development and a very engaging plot.

Thoroughly recommended. The third book "Dragonfired" isn't out yet

but here's a tracker:

https://www.jzachary...ks/Dragonfired/

Eight introspective zombies out of nine.

#26635 Salt-Man Z

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Posted 05 October 2020 - 04:50 PM

Once again, I haven't read much this year besides comics (lots of comics) but a late night chat about books with my almost-15-year-old son a month or so ago got me to pick up my Kindle again. (He's now three chapters into GotM, by the way!)

First up was Premee Mohamad's Before the Rising a "teens race to save the world from Lovecraftian monsters" story whose success hinges entirely on the well-written relationship between the two protagonists. Grab this one when you see it.

Next was Aliette de Bodard's In the Palace of the Vanishers, a novella-length science-fantasy with Vietnamese flavor. The setting is really interesting, though not really the focus of the story. There's a romantic subplot that did something less than nothing for me, but on the whole this one was pretty decent.

Currently reading Harrow the Ninth. I finished Act One last night, and I have no idea what's going on (though I do have a theory.) It's gripping reading at this point, at least.

"Here is light. You will say that it is not a living entity, but you miss the point that it is more, not less. Without occupying space, it fills the universe. It nourishes everything, yet itself feeds upon destruction. We claim to control it, but does it not perhaps cultivate us as a source of food? May it not be that all wood grows so that it can be set ablaze, and that men and women are born to kindle fires?"
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Posted 06 October 2020 - 04:17 PM

Morgoth, on 22 September 2020 - 06:29 AM, said:

Abyss, on 21 September 2020 - 04:16 AM, said:

THIS IS HOW YOU LOSE THE TIME WAR
So far so good. I really like the narrative style.

Fantastic book! I loved every page of it. ...

 <div><br></div><div>I owe this book a Just Finished post... </div><div> It's brilliant. Much thanks to Wert whose positive review prompted me to get on w it.

Everything about this is what i read sf for... great engaging exceptional characters, original storytelling, clever twists on tropes, the authors just nailed my literary tastezone again and again.

The core, that the book is a series of letters exchanged between two opposing soldiers in a time/space/reality war, is SO well executed and used that i kept rereading (listening) to parts to grasp or re-appreciate how they did it.

Five alternate realities out of fish. Highly recommended. The earbook narrator is frikkin amazing and gives both POVs their own voice so damn well.

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#26637 JPK

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Posted 06 October 2020 - 08:13 PM

Stross' The Nightmare Stacks.

This is fantastic. I'm loving the split POV involving the dating.

Dinner with the parents. So. Good.

"Son, get me another drink. This one's broken."

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