"They didn’t deserve to inherit the empire their ancestors had built."

Does anyone?

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Also, read, enjoyed and seemingly forgotten! 5 more books to so total stands at 14.

i - The Ex Hex (Ex Hex #1) by Erin Sterling

ii- The Kiss Curse
(Ex Hex #2) by Erin Sterling

iii - Castle Waiting, Vol. 2 by
Linda Medley

iv - The Worrier's Guide to Life by Gemma Correll

v- The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After #3) by Drew Williams

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2023 Book round-up

9 - The End of All Things: J Scalzi
8 - Monstress: Book 1 (inc issues 1-18 of ongoing comic)
7 - Living With The Dead by Kelly Armstrong
6 - The Human Division: J Scalzi
5 - Saga graphic Novel Vol 11 (issues 55 -60)
4 - The Secret Chapter: Genevieve Cogman
3- 'The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means'. (sequel) Audiobook; J Scalzi
2- 'The Dispatcher' Audiobook; John Scalzi
1- "The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V & Filipe Andrade

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Also, read, enjoyed and seemingly forgotten! 5 more books to so total stands at 14.

i - The Ex Hex (Ex Hex #1) by Erin Sterling

ii- The Kiss Curse
(Ex Hex #2) by Erin Sterling

iii - Castle Waiting, Vol. 2 by
Linda Medley

iv - The Worrier's Guide to Life by Gemma Correll

v- The Firmament of Flame (The Universe After #3) by Drew Williams

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2023 Book round-up

9 - The End of All Things: J Scalzi
8 - Monstress: Book 1 (inc issues 1-18 of ongoing comic)
7 - Living With The Dead by Kelly Armstrong
6 - The Human Division: J Scalzi
5 - Saga graphic Novel Vol 11 (issues 55 -60)
4 - The Secret Chapter: Genevieve Cogman
3- 'The Dispatcher: Murder By Other Means'. (sequel) Audiobook; J Scalzi
2- 'The Dispatcher' Audiobook; John Scalzi
1- "The Many Deaths of Laila Starr by Ram V & Filipe Andrade

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Book 8 of 2023: Monstress: Book One (includes issues 1-18 of ongoing comic)

Book 9 of 2023: The End Of All Things, the last book in the main book series of Old Man's War by John Scalzi

Monstress was brain meltingly good but sometimes hard to read (visually maximalist)

The End of All Things was a beautifully crafted ending to a massively scoped series

Would recommend both, warning that both have violent content

Glad I got over my prev (nasty) 'book hangover'

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Just finished The End Of All Things, the last book in the main book series: Old Man's War by John Scalzi.

So good.

So very brilliant.

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This going after potential rivals, even if they're children, up to and including simply murdering them is giving me "A Song of Ice and Fire" vibes. With Kurash being like Ser Davos, drawing a hard line there: "we do not murder children".

We'll see if infanticide has dire consequences here as well. Or descending to assassinating rivals, period.

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"There is a reason, brash youth, that we in the Coalition rule by threes. The ancient one brings wisdom to the table of governance. The Matrone offers stability and sustenance. The Magava provides the fresh ideas and vigor of youth. Because youth is not meant to rule alone."

Ah, that kind of triumvirate. Feels a bit like the "Foundation" one...

Interesting: today, we're mostly ruled by old age, not youth. Even middle age's an exception.

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"From the galley, Petty Officer Thea James Alhonolulu gestures toward a cooling rack of ginger buns, sweet fried sesame buns, and compsognathus-tail buns. The smell is divine."

I don't eat meat, but... real dinosaur buns? 😋

(Will we actually get to see the dinosaurs?)

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"In Chaonia the high command met at an oval strategos table, a nod to the republic’s principle of equality of citizens."

Um. Of citizens, as opposed to the royal and governing houses, or what? It's so weird that the so-called republic feels in no way egalitarian, while the so-called empire came from trade unions and syndicates. I'm really not sure what to make of that. Is it just hypocrisy or what?

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So there are shipyards at Gdansk, eh?

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"Her, not it. The baby had been announced as a girl child, which seems premature to him, but they hold different customs here."

Awwww 💙

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"Feast this evening. Tomorrow, we launch.” I also see what you did /there/. It sure is a classic sentiment, although I'm never sure it is wise to indulge too much before a big fight...

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As a sincere fan of physical and ebooks -

*I want to spend money on your book.*

Don't make me jump through unnecessary hoops to see a sample of your book (with non fiction, just a contents page is often enough) or to BUY YOUR BOOK.

Have your own website.

Don't expect me to trawl Facebook/Twitter or (FFS) Instagram/TicTok to get info about your book

I want to buy your book

Make it hard for me to see or buy your book and I will simply NOT BUY YOUR BOOK

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There, a character wonders if the privileged newbie might finally confide in the grizzled crew. And maybe that is a way: being open and making yourself vulnerable, talking about your background and your difficulties, acknowledgeding that you need to learn a lot, and only after some time come up with things you might add to the crew's abilities.

Having been bullied, I cynically think "they'd just use that against you". But I like that it works in the book.

(3/n, n=3)

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I've always asked myself what a good way to deal with these situations might be, if you find yourself in one (and even if I'm no longer young, I'm autistic and educated, so I'm read as arrogant and coldly distant a lot; it's not just a hypothetical for me!).

They do feel like there's no good way: try bring friendly and you're sucking up, try keeping to yourself and you're haughty. Lose-lose hopelessness!

"Furious Heaven" actually gave me a new idea for that.

(2/n)

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Because "Furious Heaven" has a bit with it, I'm thinking of the "privileged inexperienced kid gets sent to work amongst underclass old hands, doesn't fit in and is mercilessly mocked and pranked" trope.

Sometimes it's played such that we as readers root for the crew, sometimes for the youngster, but it's clear that it's not a great situation for everyone, even though everyone's reactions are somewhat understandabke if not particularly grown-up.

(1/n)

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Book 7 (?) August 10th 2023

Finished another book - deeply unsatisfying

Living With The Dead by Kelly Armstrong

Part of Otherworld Women series (Urban Modern Fantasy). Have read all prev books in (13 14?) series, this was the first one that I actively disliked.

Partly it was large ensemble of main characters each chapter is a diff char viewpoint - there's a total of seven (?) characters. To many! Also intense icky adult themes with no advanced warning.

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"I enter the shop past a meter-tall gilded statue of She Who Repairs the Sky holding a wrench and an Antikythera mechanism"

💙

What a great image.

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