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There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he …
What were those trigger-happy fools in the coppice doing?
— Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (Greenhollow Duology, #1) (15%)
new vocabulary: coppice
an area of woodland in which the trees or shrubs are periodically cut back to ground level to stimulate growth and provide firewood or timber
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he …
He'd found the trail a few days ago up on the hills, among the twisted gorse.
— Silver in the Wood by Emily Tesh (Greenhollow Duology, #1) (8%)
new vocabulary: gorse
a yellow-flowered shrub of the pea family, the leaves of which are modified to foreign spines, native to Western Europe and North Africa
Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to end the endless slaughter is …
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
78 books finished.
Dark Lord Davi rules the kingdom, but she must now break the time loop that …
Have set Libby to notify me when the library has copies.
Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young …
The premise is that Davi wakes up naked in a small pond in a magical world, where she is proclaimed to be the messiah of prophecy. Only after doing this 237 times and the hordes of the Dark Lord overrun the Kingdom every time, she gives up. She decides she's going to become the Dark Lord instead. There's a bit of Groundhog Day in this, but thankfully Wexler only takes us through those motions for the first chapters.
Davi is the kind of character I usually find annoying. Way too quick with quips and never serious, like every damn character in a Scalzi book. Thankfully there's an actual character arc where Davi comes to realize other characters aren't just NPCs in her personal video game, and she becomes less self-obsessed over the course of the book.
This is one of the few books lately where I became more interested in …
The premise is that Davi wakes up naked in a small pond in a magical world, where she is proclaimed to be the messiah of prophecy. Only after doing this 237 times and the hordes of the Dark Lord overrun the Kingdom every time, she gives up. She decides she's going to become the Dark Lord instead. There's a bit of Groundhog Day in this, but thankfully Wexler only takes us through those motions for the first chapters.
Davi is the kind of character I usually find annoying. Way too quick with quips and never serious, like every damn character in a Scalzi book. Thankfully there's an actual character arc where Davi comes to realize other characters aren't just NPCs in her personal video game, and she becomes less self-obsessed over the course of the book.
This is one of the few books lately where I became more interested in the story as it got further along.
Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young woman who, tired of defending …
@mrawdon I've been meaning to read this
Groundhog Day meets Deadpool in Django Wexler’s raunchy, hilarious, blood-splattered fantasy tale about a young …
Dozens of spindly legs on all sides bite into the bricks of the floor, walls, and ceiling, driving it forward in peristaltic waves, shockingly fast.
— How to Become the Dark Lord and Die Trying by Django Wexler (Dark Lord Davi, #1) (89%)
new vocabulary: peristalsis
The involuntary constriction and relaxation of the muscles of the intestine or another canal, creating wave-like movements that push the contents of the canal forward.
Phil in SF
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It's a very tough read/listen in places because unfortunately, Elliot Page had to deal with a lot of emotional abuse as a kid/teen and queerphobia later on. It was truly shocking to me to hear about the attitudes in Hollywood not that long ago. The book conveys the struggles and the difficult journey of trans persons really well, in an almost tangible way. In the end, I found myself cheering along when Elliot finally gets his top surgery. On a sidenote, I also learned a lot about Canada and Canadian history.
Phil in SF
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This was a fascinating read! I was immediately piqued by the subject matter. I had only ever gotten American and European histories in school; it wasn’t until I saw this book that I realized I had no idea about any of the history of the Pacific Islands, Asia, or Africa.
There is so much amazing history packed into this book. The settlement of the Pacific Ocean is something that leaves me in awe at the capabilities of humans.
Two “paleonerds” embark on a roadtrip across the West in search of fossils.
The new …
Paleobotanist Kirk Johnson and artists Ray Troll take an epic road trip through fossil beds & museums of Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Utah and New Mexico, describing & drawing the flora, fauna & geology of the lands that were buried under the Great Plains and then uplifted back into surface proximity by the Rocky Mountains. Troll's artwork steals the show. If you've seen his shirts you now the distinctive style. Sadly, either I got a bit inured or the book just tails off a bit toward the end, where it feels more like a mad dash to get back to Denver on time than the more thoughtful gee-whiz exploration that it starts off as. This is the recently published second edition, and a lot of the narrative has been updated to reflect happenings since the original publication in 2007.
Two “paleonerds” embark on a roadtrip across the West in search of fossils.
The new edition has been updated throughout, …
