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The language is that of a young woman writing in her journal. The chapters are short, as is the book. Yet it manages to remind the reader of climate change, of class unfairness, of where the revenge motive leads. It starts with a girl on a bridge who sees nothing before her, and ends with that girl earning her future.
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When a former classmate begs Pleiti for help on behalf of her cousin—who’s up for …
I wonder sometimes if too high expectations make me more likely to be disappointed in a book. I feel like the Mossa and Pleiti series should be my jam: it's lesbian scifi detective fiction set on an Oxford-esque Jupiter space habitats. This one was pretty good, but the first book is still my favorite.
The details of the mystery in this book are the most solid of the trilogy, and (in some ways) I like Pleiti getting a chance to try to do some investigating on her own. Unfortunately, the romance angle suffers from acute "please just talk to each other" syndrome where they each worry on their own about what the other is thinking and feeling.
This is also maybe a minor and petty opinion, but it felt like this book over-did loan words from other languages; arguably, in universe this could be part of the academic study of …
I wonder sometimes if too high expectations make me more likely to be disappointed in a book. I feel like the Mossa and Pleiti series should be my jam: it's lesbian scifi detective fiction set on an Oxford-esque Jupiter space habitats. This one was pretty good, but the first book is still my favorite.
The details of the mystery in this book are the most solid of the trilogy, and (in some ways) I like Pleiti getting a chance to try to do some investigating on her own. Unfortunately, the romance angle suffers from acute "please just talk to each other" syndrome where they each worry on their own about what the other is thinking and feeling.
This is also maybe a minor and petty opinion, but it felt like this book over-did loan words from other languages; arguably, in universe this could be part of the academic study of past earth so I can give it a little bit of a pass. However, it feels like a :chart_with_upwards_trend: from the first book which had none (to my poor memory), to the second book with a few, and this third book where it was so frequent as to almost become jarring. I could believe in the adoption of words like chisme or pues or klopt, but ... chiacchierare? chismoseando?
For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships. …
Second science fiction audiobook in a row with an alien named "Rocky".
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at …
Ah, Pouilly-Fumé, just my choice for turbot with hollandaise sauce!
— Billy Boyle by James R. Benn (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery, #1) (17%)
new vocabulary: turbot
a European flatfish of inshore waters, which has large bony tubercles on the body and is prized as food.
Phil in SF
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the first 100 pages set the foundation for the language of thinking about how repeating patterns (triangles, squares, -agons etc) work, and then you start getting into brainbending tesselations. Not a lot of fluff, its just straight into: ok if you reflect then rotate, then reflect again, all around a center point, you get a pattern that looks like this: and a couple, very clean, example images.
Great for designers, artists, tile-layers, and those into #MCEscher & #OpticalIllusions & #fractals but with a logic/systems/mathematics bent.
Phil in SF
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Anna does boring things for terrible people because even criminals need office help and she …
I was not prepared for how much of this book is about spreadsheets.
To be clear, i flipping love spreadsheets
What’s a twenty-two-year-old Irish American cop who’s never been out of Massachusetts before doing at …
Another book from deep in the TBR pile. I'm quite enjoying the beginning.
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In the bestselling tradition of Why Nations Fail and The Revenge of Geography, an award-winning …
Interesting and a fast read, but it could be better organized in each chapter and would benefit from trading off some breadth for more depth in places. Tends to jump to conclusions, and overall leans vaguely right wing though it clearly tries to be neutral, at least from the Western lens.
For centuries, men and women have manned lighthouses to ensure the safe passage of ships.
It is a lonely job …
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative …
humans colonize a planet with tentacle & beak having aliens that have a low level of intelligence. one of them talks their human liaison into genetically altering them to live longer. they're playing the long game. it's very talky
In Alafair Burke's electrifying thriller, Dead Connection, a rookie detective goes undercover on the Internet …
Starts with a lot of setup written "as you know, Bob" but it settles into a fast paced and pretty well constructed police procedural.
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative short story by New York …
An inquisitive life-form finds there’s more to existence than they ever dreamed in an imaginative short story by New York …
In Alafair Burke's electrifying thriller, Dead Connection, a rookie detective goes undercover on the Internet dating scene to draw out …
@pootriarch Reviews, comments and quotes are federated nicely. Even lists mostly are. But federating the book database itself is hard. When is an author the same author? When is a book the same book? When is it okay to override what someone entered for a book with what someone else put on another server?
