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Robin Shipton đź“š

robinshipton@bookrastinating.com

Joined 3 years, 5 months ago

Reader and (now) writer of #sciencefiction, #fantasy, and #romance, with a smattering of all kinds of other stuff: #history, #polyamory, #WritingCraft, #philosophy, and #TTRPG books.

Mildly #queer, #TransRights supporter, #parent, and #Canadian. #AntiRacism is a process not a checkbox.

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Robin Shipton đź“š's books

To Read (View all 400)

Ellen Kushner: Swordspoint (2003)
Liu Cixin, Bruno Roubicek: The three-body problem (Hardcover, 2016, Tor)
Helena Greer: Season of Love (2022, Grand Central Publishing)

Currently Reading (View all 23)

Liu Cixin: The Three-Body Problem (Hardcover, 2014, Tor Books)
Howard Waldrop: Dream Factories and Radio Pictures (EBook, 2022)
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John Connelley: From Peoples into Nations (2020, Princeton University Press)

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Mel Taylor: Fast Falls the Eventide (Paperback, 2015, Wordburg Publishing)
Tim Pratt: The Wrong Stars (Paperback, 2017, Angry Robot)
Michael Sands: Monster of the Week (EBook, 2015, Evil Hat Productions)

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commented on Tress of the Emerald Sea by Brandon Sanderson (Secret Projects, #1)

Brandon Sanderson: Tress of the Emerald Sea (EBook, 2023, Dragonsteel Entertainment, LLC)

The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has …

Content warning Very mild spoilers for Huck, seas, and cups. It's only 17% in after all.

commented on The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (The Brothers Sinister, #1)

Courtney Milan: The Duchess War (EBook, 2012, Courtney Milan)

Miss Minerva Lane is a quiet, bespectacled wallflower, and she wants to keep it that …

Very early meet-cute! I like the MCs already, save a few tiny off notes. This is really early Milan, but it’s already quite polished. Tightly paced, almost—but not quite—feeling rushed.

I’m enjoying this. Onward!

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reviewed Spadework for a Palace by László Krasznahorkai (Storybook ND)

László Krasznahorkai, John Batki: Spadework for a Palace (EBook, 2022, New Directions)

Spadework for a Palace bears the subtitle “Entering the Madness of Others” and offers an …

A Glorious Spew

Another great little book from the New Directions Storybook imprint. Written in one long sentence, Spadework for a Palace is a sprawling monograph written by one herman melvill, a self-described gray little librarian with several overwhelming obsessions and an incredible plan. Obsessed with triangulating the lives of Herman Melville (the "real" one), Malcolm Lowry and the architect and writer Lebbeus Woods our narrator expounds upon New York and the nature of the universe, reaching an incredible crescendo right before crashing back down to reality. There's a late-stage cameo by one of lower Manhattan's most unbelievable buildings!

commented on Nona the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #3)

Tamsyn Muir: Nona the Ninth (Hardcover, 2022)

Her city is under siege. The zombies are coming back. And all Nona wants is …

The story is thoroughly engaging even while I still don’t know what the heck is really going on. It’s telling an enjoyable story while feeding the reader enough clues to the mystery to feel like both are making steady progress in tandem.