Kevin's Watch

Ha. Oxymoron, no?

I'm sayin'!

Fist and Faith wrote:

aliantha wrote:Khe is a native alien...

She's a native alien?

Oh, fine. She's a member of the native population on a planet that's not Earth. Okay?

(grumbles)

::mrgreen:

Finished listening to Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms. I quite enjoyed that. I think I'll keep the Audible subscription and listen to one of his a month on the free credit - the subscription's the exact same price as the paperbacks, and it'll let me fit them in at times I wouldn't usually be reading.

I also found out recently I can get half price membership of Audbile for three months, but it looks like I'd need to create a separate account to get the offer.

Edit: Hmm. Thinking perhaps the best deal for me is to have two separate 12 month accounts. There's a 2-books-per-month account that costs £15, but having two annual accounts gives you 12 books a year each for £5.83 per book.

SoulBiter wrote:Just started "The Shadow of what was lost" by James Islington

It has been twenty years since the end of the war. The dictatorial Augurs - once thought of almost as gods - were overthrown and wiped out during the conflict, their much-feared powers mysteriously failing them. Those who had ruled under them, men and women with a lesser ability known as the Gift, avoided the Augurs' fate only by submitting themselves to the rebellion's Four Tenets. A representation of these laws is now written into the flesh of any who use the Gift, forcing those so marked into absolute obedience.

Honestly I bought this on Kindle just because I liked the name and the picture on the book. Time will tell if this book is any good.

Update - I'm about 50% complete with this book and I would highly recommend it. Well edited, good character development and and intriguing plot.

Just finished a reread of Seeds of Earth by Michael Cobley. An enjoyable read with interesting aliens and good concepts. Maybe a bit too space-operaishy for my taste at times, but it stood up well to the reread.

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Stonewielder

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Taking a break from ASoIaF after A Storm of Swords and rereading the Mercy Thompson-verse. Started with Moon Called, then read about half of the short stories in Shifting Shadows. Am now on Cry Wolf and will go to Blood Bound next. Then back to Shifting Shadows for my favorite in that book, Roses in Winter. And back and forth between Mercy, short stories, and the Alpha and Omega novels.

I have two from the library I have not read yet, a short story in a holiday collection that came out this past year, and the newest Alpha and Omega. Will finish up with those and then return to ASoIaF.

Orb, Sceptre, Throne

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Yesterday I finished listening to Soul Music by Terry Pratchett. I didn't think it was as good as Men At Arms, but it got a couple of good laughs out of me.

Today I finished Cixin Liu's The Three-Body Problem. I... am not joining the hype. I enjoyed it, it's very interesting and inventive, but I just found it to be pretty dry. It's very much a hard sci fi novel, and put a lot of time into explaining the science around everything. In fact, the end of the novel was largely a detailed explanation of how things from earlier in the novel were done.

Ancillary Sword remains my top pick for the Hugo. I haven't read the Anderson or Butcher yet.

Dust of Dreams.

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The Crippled God.

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Bird Box. Post apocalyptic fiction where you can't open your eyes, or you go blind.

Slow to start off, but the last hundred pages were great.

I'm currently reading A Darker Shade of Magic by V E Schwab.

Rigel wrote:Bird Box. Post apocalyptic fiction where you can't open your eyes, or you go blind.

Slow to start off, but the last hundred pages were great.

If you can't open your eyes, does it matter if you're blind? For that matter, if you don't open your eyes, how do you know you're not blind?

Finished Down Below Station. Really loved it, but it's almost completely lacking in humor (or I missed it). Moving on to read more of CJ Cherryh's Alliance Space novels soon.

I just finished Half a King by Joe Abercrombie. It's a fast read. Not particularly deep but nice beach reading if that makes any sense.

I've started The Girl in the Road by Monica Byrne. It's a little odd. The main character has trouble talking to people, thinks there's a conspiracy out to get her, goes through strange moods. There's a suggestion she suffers from manic depression or something similar. The book jumps straight into things, too, and hasn't quite explained what set it off yet. Very interesting.

I've started Memories of Ice. (Frosty gave me a spare copy she had, when she was visiting Ireland last week.)

It's going okay so far, finding out more of the bigger backstory (which helps) and slowly coming to accept the almost endless magic that soaks the whole story (even if it still doesn't suit my palate that well ).

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