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m'ughes rated The Ministry of Time: 5 stars

Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster)

The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what …

m'ughes finished reading The Ministry of Time by Kaliane Bradley

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

Delightful debut, which my partner and I took turns reading to one another. An imaginaive exercise about time travel as a metaphor for immigration, finding oneself having tried to colonise the minds of people with whom you thought you were in love, and climate change anxiety. Sometimes comes across as slightly formulaic in overuse of metaphors at the beginnings of sections, but honestly the prose is a delight throughtout.

m'ughes finished reading Snuff by Terry Pratchett

Snuff is the 39th novel in the Discworld series, written by Terry Pratchett. It was …

A fascinating exploration of the psychology of a cop who is in some ways trapped in a battle with the cop in his head. Lots of blink-and-you'll-miss-it nightmare imagery. I did not find it as lighthearted as I expected to, although perhaps that's more a function of the Zeitgeist.

m'ughes finished reading Rare Flavours by Ram V

Ram V, Filipe Andrade: Rare Flavours (Paperback, 2024, BOOM! Studios)

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A demonically delicious culinary chronicle from the acclaimed, award-nominated team behind The Many Deaths of …

Delicious.

m'ughes finished reading On the Come Up by Angie Thomas

Angie Thomas: On the Come Up (2020, HarperCollins Publishers)

Insightful, unflinching, and full of heart, On the Come Up is an ode to hip …

Crossover book about hiphop culture and various double-binds facing Black youth in America. My mother suggested I read it, I think because some elements match my own background. In that context I found it a little basic, as exercises in remedial empathy go.

m'ughes finished reading Moonbound by Robin Sloan

Robin Sloan: Moonbound (Hardcover, 2024, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

The book opens on Earth, eleven thousand years from now. The Anth met their end …

Absolutely delightful. Somewhat self-indulgent, but in the best possible way. Indulging, e.g., a love of adventure stories, and of whimsy, and of sweeping philosophical statements. Indulgent of whatever it is in a reader that makes them immediately fall in love with a character's voice.

Narrated by a fungus!!

Absolutely delightful. Somewhat self-indulgent, but in the best possible way. Indulging, e.g., a love of adventure stories, and of whimsy, and of sweeping philosophical statements. Indulgent of whatever it is in a reader that makes them immediately fall in love with a character's voice.

Narrated by a fungus!!

m'ughes finished reading Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin

Ursula K. Le Guin, Amal El-Mohtar: Worlds of Exile and Illusion (Paperback, 2022, Tor Books)

Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin, Amal El-Mohtar

m'ughes started reading Worlds of Exile and Illusion by Ursula K. Le Guin

Have finished Rocannon's World so far. Top-notch bedtime reading for a stressful time.

Very interesting to see how the main character is an ethnographer but the narrative is so thoroughly caught up in the culture he's embedded in.