Moggie finished reading Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
It was a fun book but not particularly compelling.
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I have discovered a new thing about myself. I no longer read printed books. If they aren't ebooks I just let them sit there unread.
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Moggie commented on Trail of Lightning by Rebecca Roanhorse (The Sixth World, #1)
While most of the world has drowned beneath the sudden rising waters of a climate …
Really liked this book, but it is not easy to read. The action is brutal and gory; there's a lot of killing and the details are not spared.
Moggie commented on Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might …
It's never explained why only one person can see all these ghosts. And it's never explained why one ghost can do things no other ghost can do. The lack of any logical framework is infuriating.
Moggie finished reading Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might …
Was not thrilled with this one. I don't like books where much of the content consists of the main character's internal dialogue. Makes me want to yell, "Stop agonizing and just do something!"
Moggie commented on Swordcrossed by Freya Marske
This is November's choice for the Queer Romance Club read on Mastodon.
Moggie finished reading Witchmark by C. L. Polk
In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, …
Reading books like this, set in worlds where magic or supernatural forces are normal, always makes me feel like there's some western/christian cultural mythos that is familiar enough to other people to be just background knowledge, and is something I never learned.
In spite of that, I really enjoyed the story.
Moggie stopped reading Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson
Well, that was frustrating. Good story, but it ends with a cliffhanger. And I don't think there's a sequel.
Moggie commented on Rules for Ghosting by Shelly Jay Shore
Ezra Friedman sees ghosts, which made growing up in a funeral home complicated. It might …
This is October's choice for the Queer Romance Club read on Mastodon.
Moggie commented on Witchmark by C. L. Polk
In an original world reminiscent of Edwardian England in the shadow of a World War, …
This seems like it would be fun to read!
Moggie finished reading Lady Eve's Last Con by Rebecca Fraimow
Ruth Johnson and her sister Jules have been small-time hustlers on the interstellar cruise lines …
Didn't care for this book at all. Not only were none of the characters really likeable, but it's supposed to be a romance and it didn't really seem believable that they liked each other. Besides, the setting never felt plausible either. It's a future society that somehow retains social structures from the last century.
Moggie finished reading Along the Silk Roads in Mongol Eurasia by Michal Biran
During the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries, Chinggis Khan and his heirs established the largest contiguous …
I didn't so much read this one, as use it for research for a story I was writing, but it was very interesting anyhow.
Moggie commented on The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman (The Thursday Murder Club, #1)
Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet …
My turn to read the library book finally came up. I enjoyed the book but didn't find anything especially compelling about it. And some of the motives for the murders seemed pretty flimsy.
Moggie commented on Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time by James Suzman
I discovered this book through a video where the author talks about its subject matter: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dk0sJP9C9-I The video itself is pretty interesting.
Moggie finished reading The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the …
Interesting book, but I didn't like it as much as Red Team Blues.
Moggie finished reading Even Though I Knew The End by C. L. Polk
A magical detective dives into the affairs of Chicago's divine monsters to secure a future …
This thing is billed as a romance but it's more of a supernatural mystery. Yeah, the plot depends on people being willing to sacrifice their lives for love, but there's never a clear sense of why they'd care for each other that much.
The plot might be more understandable if you grew up with Christian iconography, but I didn't. There are a lot of demons and angels running around, behaving in ways that don't make much sense to me.