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On this very first day of October the #birthdayfairies are kicking off the celebrations for the month with our wonderful @LoverOfLearning ! We‘re sending along lots of #birthdaylove and best wishes for a simply marvelous day. ☀️

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!

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My October #bookspin - trying my hand at actual titles rather than “categories” this go ‘round with some spooky season selections. 👻 🎃 🦇 💀

This latest novel from Premee Mohamed just won the Aurora award for best Canadian sci-fi/fantasy novel. It's an interesting exploration of war, violence and pacifism, but I found it quite slow going.

#gottacatchemall (Lillipup: beige coloured cover) @PuddleJumper

I got a day with Casey! Hurray!

He‘s currently helping me tackle the last story in this Korean collection about a skyscraper city. Alas, it‘s the sort of ideas-over-people SF I struggle to click with, so I ain‘t as wowed as the folks who recced it to me. There‘s enough meat here that I‘ll finish it, at least, but it won‘t make my list of stellar short fiction recs.

This was an interesting and fresh take on a time travel story, as well as being very focused on themes of rioting, corrupt governments, and revolution. It is on the heavier side in terms of topics, and there is a lot of death in this book. I enjoyed some aspects of it, but I cannot say I “enjoyed“ reading through a literal revolution, and brutality etc.

#junespecials #rockyroad
@eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My #Bookspin choice was a book by K.L. Noone; I intended to start with The Magician but this turned out the be a prequel. It's a short fantasy romance with some lovely writing, and definitely piques interest for the next book.

#JumpStartSummer (this time for sure!) book #1

I wanted to like this book, but I just couldn't get into it.

This is my current listen. I just started it but so far I'm enjoying it.

There was something very claustrophobic about this book. Alefret is stuck in his body, in his prison, with his injuries, with Qhudur, in the political position he finds himself in, with the lies that have been told, with the state of the world, with his loses, with his morals. Alefret isn‘t a passive character but he does feel trapped.