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Got my bingo on my #UnstackMyShelf board! So I treated myself. My buddy read with a friend, an impulse buy, and the next Emily Wilde book! #BookHaul

Finished Saga vols 11 and 12. Still love this series.

And I even managed to fit them on the shelf!

I just started this book yesterday, after it sat on my shelf for more than a year. I'm sorry I didn't pick it up sooner, it's fantastic! As the blurb on the front cover says, "all at once a meditation on motherhood, grief, war, environmental collapse, and the nature of memory and time". Set in the Dominican Republic, a science fiction universe where "pocket worlds" aka small alternate universes have been discovered, lesbian protagonist. So good!

This is a hilarious science fiction story. Do you want to join the army knowing that you could possibly live a younger life?

This Orcadian verse SFF novel with accompanying standard southern English version tells the story of a student returning to a space station from her art studies who forms a relationship with a visitor to the station.

While it was fun matching up the two versions and listening to the audiobook on Everand, there seemed to be a lot missing from the actual story which suddenly just stopped in the middle of the action. A disappointment.

I'm usually a fan of Le Guin, but this just didn't do it for me.I found that the story suffered in the long explanations of the Aka world and philosophy.In retrospect, perhaps other people feel the same way about The Left Hand of Darkness, which I think is a masterpiece and I can't understand why anybody would think it's boring; but I find a world where no genders exist incredibly interesting and this world where there's spirituality but no ⬇️

Sandy book #2

I have made it to the bombs dropping segment and I gotta say, I don't love reading it right now! It kinda makes me feel sick!!

I don't know why I waited so long to read this. It has fantastic worldbuilding and a wonderful multi-layered story. I loved the eclectic cast of characters. The author does a great job making you care for all of them. Even the jerks. I laughed and cried. I will definitely be reading the rest of the series. (The audiobook narrator was perfect.)

This novel, about a prisoner sent to an alien planet, is nominated for the 2025 Hugo Best Novel award. It's another excellent story from the very prolific Adrian Tchaikovsky, who seems to write science fiction and fantasy with equal ease.

#52bookclub25 (Author releases more than one book a year)
#hugoawards