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TimmyMac

TimmyMac@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 4 months ago

I go through phases - sometimes I'm bingeing science fiction or fantasy, sometimes it's classical literature like Moby Dick or Don Quixote. My tastes have historically been pretty dude-centric (Tom Robbins, Cormac McCarthy, Thom McGuane, Hemingway, Steinbeck) but I'm working on that.

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Martin Cruz Smith: Independence Square (2023, Simon & Schuster)

Classic Renko

Another terrific book from Martin Cruz Smith. The sparseness of his writing suits the hard boiled nature of Arkady Renko's world but is also somehow appropriately Russian.

reviewed Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)

Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues (Hardcover, 2023, Tor Books)

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world …

Pitch Perfect

What a tremendous combination of modern technology and the best kind of sparse detective story. There were a couple of editorial choices that I found jarring, but otherwise just loved the story. I could see Philip Marlowe getting caught up in this kind of thing, he just didn't have Signal and Tor at his disposal.

Can't wait for the next one!

finished reading Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)

Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues (Hardcover, 2023, Tor Books)

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world …

Oh, man, I really loved this book. Excited to know there's another one coming!

commented on Red Team Blues by Cory Doctorow (Martin Hench, #1)

Cory Doctorow: Red Team Blues (Hardcover, 2023, Tor Books)

A grabby next-Tuesday thriller about cryptocurrency shenanigans that will awaken you to how the world …

Very much enjoying so far. Feels like it took a chapter or two for Doctorow to dial in the tone, but now he's got it.

reviewed Girl and the Moon by Mark Lawrence (Book of the Ice, #3)

Mark Lawrence: Girl and the Moon (Hardcover, 2022, Penguin Publishing Group)

In the third exhilarating novel in this dazzling epic fantasy series, a young outcast will …

Didn't Click

Something about this entire series didn't work for me. Lawrence's worldbuilding was great, as always, but I really found myself reading just to satisfy my need for completeness. All the pieces of the story were there - but something their assembly left me wanting more.