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Book review: Gallant
The plot centres around Olivia, an orphan when we encounter her, with only the journal of her mother to keep her company. Olivia can’t talk and is a bit of an outcast in the orphanage Continue reading
Book review: Station Eternity
In broad strokes, there has been first contact, and two humans have ended up on Station Eternity, with the rest of the inhabitants of the sentient space station being various alien races. The central conceit is that Mallory, the main character, has many murders just happen around her and then she invariably solves them Continue reading
Book review: The Cabinet
The Cabinet is roughly a book about ‘Symptomers’ or people who have weird powers or things happen to them, that one of the characters think is the next stage of human evolution. Some of them are people who skip forward in time, others who fall into torpors for months or years at a time, or even others who have weird things happen to their bodies like Ginko trees growing out of their finger. None of them are quite normal and the vast majority of them are quite weird or unsettling. Continue reading
Book review: The Night Shift
The Night Shift by Natalka Burian takes place in New York, where we find Jean Smith, setting out on a new nocturnal way of life (bartending and bakery) after abruptly leaving her 9-5. Continue reading
Book review: The Loneliest Girl in the Universe
A short, easy YA novel without a whole lot of plot. Continue reading
Book review: Sea of Tranquility
ea of Tranquility takes places across several periods in time, following a set of interconnected characters (a little bit like The Glass Hotel). I really enjoyed the central physics-y question at the heart of the book, which is basically are we living in a simulation. Continue reading
Book review: A Prayer for the Crown Shy
A Prayer for the Crown Shy is the second in the Robot and Monk series by Becky Chambers, and just like the first book, it is just absolutely delightful. Continue reading
Book review: The Thirty Years War – Europe’s Tragedy
For those of you not familiar with the Thirty Years War (aka, the most interesting war), it took place for 1618-1648 and involved almost all of Europe, though mainly what was Central Europe of the time, or the Holy Roman Empire (not quite Germany, but including lots of what would become Germany). Continue reading
Book review: Wish you weren’t here
Essentially we follow the Rook family, a quintet of Ghost Hunters, father, mother, daughter, son and his husband. They each have their own sort of power / ghost hunting skill that bring the to a tiny coastal town in the East Midlands, for what they think is a fairly standard haunting in a church but of course, that turns out not to be the case. Continue reading
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