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Andy

andy_m@bookrastinating.com

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

I like science fiction, science fact, situated feminisms, and speculative fabulations.

They/them. You can also find me at @andy@dice.camp.

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reviewed Fires of Azeroth by C.J. Cherryh (The Morgaine Cycle, #3)

C.J. Cherryh: Fires of Azeroth (Paperback, 1979, DAW)

Fires of Azeroth

Another banger from CJ.

I'm actually reading this and the fourth out of the collected edition but I want the credit for reading two books!!

Andre Norton: Three Against the Witch World: Beyond the Mind Barrier (Witch World, No. 4) (Paperback, Ace Books)

Three Against the Witch World

The only thing I didn't like about this book was that Norton wrote the relationship between two of the triplets in the same way she wrote their parents. I was convinced they were gonna smash by the end of this. I guess there's still time bc I'll probably read the next book lmaooo

Maciej Dunajski: Geometry (2022, Oxford University Press)

Geometry: A Very Short Introduction

First half was a good re-intro to geometry. The second half won't make sense if you haven't taken geometry in a while.

I guess the first half counts as "a very short introduction" lol.

reviewed Castle in the Air by Diana Wynne Jones (/Howl's Moving Castle)

Diana Wynne Jones: Castle in the Air (Paperback, 2001, Eos)

Having long indulged himself in daydreams more exciting than his mundane life as a carpet …

Review of 'Castle in the Air' on 'Goodreads'

This should be a 4-star. I liked the characters, I liked the adventure, I liked the writing. But it was just so awkwardly Orientalist. White British lady writing this was...

Review of 'Cave Girl Illustrated' on 'Goodreads'

"Don't shoot; I'm a white man."

I hate that ERB is fairly successful at writing (bad) adventure novels because his racism ruins it every time! Like, this could have just been a story about a guy finding an island lost in time, but no it is evident that ERB seriously thought Polynesians were savages jfc!!!

So it's like 1.5 stars but no this book is not "okay."