Since I discovered the fediverse I must have written like 10 new bios for profiles. And, as you may know, it's hard to keep telling who you are to people you've never met and you probably never will. Especially when you're not really sure yourself.
This list of books here is wildly incomplete. I was one of those weird kids that spend their time reading. I don't even remember what books I've read. I try to keep track but I get lost, I forget, I lose interest. Also, my attention span is getting funny with age.
Everything is getting funny with age.
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@ghose@bookrastinating.com non está traducido, por desgraza; dame moitísima pena non poder recomendalo, aínda que tampouco o recomendaría a todo o mundo, porque está moi centrado no desenvolvemento das personaxes, e non tanto nas accións e na trama, e iso seica bota a moita xente para atrás.
Kai-Enna is the Witch King, though he hasn’t always been, and he hasn’t even always …
Content warning Mention to certain parts of the plot (not big big spoilers)
As much as I love Martha Wells' work, I didn't fall in love with this book, not just at the beginning, but along it either. There is in this story a love for killing people to solve problems that didn't sit well with me. The main character, Kai (not Kai-Enna, who is only one of the impersonations of him) feels a bit plain, not nuanced. I kept thinking he didn't have a personality. He just... acts. He is not a bad person but he goes around just killing people. The magic also felt kind of inconsistent and random to me. Nothing gets well explained, and things that can and cannot be done are just "there" for no apparent reason. The characters in general are archetypes, not particularly deep or well designed... If you compare these characters to the Raksura ones, there is a world of difference. I don't know, it just felt... shallow.
Following her record-breaking debut trilogy, Ann Leckie, winner of the Hugo, Nebula, Arthur C. Clarke …
I started reading this book because the first chapter was at the end of my digital copy of The Stone Sky by NK Jemisin, and of course because the author was Ann Leckie, and I adore her Ancillary trilogy. I found the beginning, this first chapter, intriguing, so I bought the book.
For now, it's interesting and an easy read.
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon return. Whether this heralds the …
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS... FOR THE LAST TIME.
The Moon will soon …
Second time through the whole trilogy. I enjoyed this third volume more this second time over. I think I got over my misunderstanding of Nassun. And I also think I understood better what happened to Schaffa after Meov.
The same thing can be said about the three books. I loved them the first time, but I loved them more the second. As if, knowing the characters and knowing what to expect, I was able to get more into who they really are.
This trilogy is so good, so complex, so nuanced. And I am completely convinced I only have the tools, experiences and knowledge to really grasp a small part of all that Jemisin put in it.
Everyone needs to love and be loved -- even men. But to know love, men …
I started reading this book the other day, and I'm finding it utterly revelatory, intelligent, interesting and so well written and clear. Totally understood why Bell Hooks is such a beloved author.
Maskelle is the voice of the adversary, but the adversary appears to have abandoned her …
Perhaps it was a lack of ability to focus on my part, but for me, this time, this book was hard to read. I could not empathize with the characters or really understand the world depicted and its magic (that never happens to me with Martha Wells). The rhythm was also complicated. I didn't really enjoy it (and it means a lot that I even finished it).
Maskelle is the voice of the adversary, but the adversary appears to have abandoned her many years ago after sending …
I loved the pace, the descriptions of character and landscape and the atmosphere. I also love the love for her characters the author displays. Great read. It was my second Le Guin book (first Tehanu, after a couple of truncated tries with other more famous books).
There were some things I didn't like about this book, like a main character who I found difficult to love, or some deliberate cruelty from the writer towards the characters (sometimes). It was hard for me to identify with the characters.
But I liked the fact that they are all well depicted women, the themes, the chronology, and living in New York for a while.
It's a first novel, so there is room for improvement. I wish I could write a first novel! Well done, Julie. Keep it up!
