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21% complete! Phil in SF has read 6 of 28 books.
For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now …
Janet thinks we're a panmixia.
— Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson (Mars Trilogy, #1) (13%)
new vocabulary: panmixia
random meeting within a breeding population
Humanity's war is eternal, spread across the galaxy and the ages. Humanity's best hope to …
Military S.F. in the Captive's War universe. Standard unit-bonds-and-drops-to-a-planet with the James S.A. Corey voice.
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When the death of her aunt brings Liz Remolina back to San Ojuela, the prospect …
It is quite surprising to note that the author is still working on their MFA at San Jose State university. The book is super compelling read. The story is about two sisters who have a bad experience as very young children in a home that they come back to after 10 years or so and confront their fears. There are ghosts & monsters.
The author transitioned after writing this book (so they go by M. M. Olivas now and not what this book club instance tells us). Do read as it's written by a Bay area author too!
@divya I fixed the author name here and at OpenLibrary.
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A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments …
Poetic, with a fascinating rhythm that made this book feel like it was made for reading aloud. A short amount of time passes for the astronauts on the international space station but it feels like the book takes place over years and years as you learn about each of them. Loved it.
For centuries, the barren, desolate landscape of the red planet has beckoned to humankind. Now …
There's an extended argument between characters at this point about whether the scientist-colonists of Mars should follow the hierarchy devised by their governments (the US and Russia) or start fresh.
It occurs to me there's a ton of research into organizational structures, and the closest Robinson comes to including it is a reference to having psychologists evaluate people prior to allowing them to join the mission, and include the head psych on the mission. The managers in charge on board, Maya & Frank, aren't organizational experts. As a manager by trade, not having this expertise on board seems like an oversight.
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he …
story about a young man who gets stuck in an ancient wood as it's protector in tree form. if you like faeries and dryads and stories about them, this may be for you. like stories about gods, it's not my thing.
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.
