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Leia

Tourma@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years, 10 months ago

A expat from Tumblr. A emigrant from Twitter. A Transgender Socialist. An Adult librarian. A member of SEIU 1199. A person who posts at @Tourma@Tech.LGBT A person who's links are at singlel.ink/u/TR

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Robert Brockway: I Will Kill Your Imaginary Friend For $200 (2025, Page Street Publishing Company) No rating

Just found out that Brockway, a founder of 1-900-HOTDOG is a writer. Which, I guess duh? But hey, new book by him. Added a bunch of metadata to the OpenLibrary listing so it was good here.

Dennard Dayle: Everything Abridged (2022, Abrams, Inc.)

Dennard's work on 1-900-HOTDOG is always entertaining, if the bleakest of the contributors. So I want to read this, but kinda don't.

...Wonder how awful Overdrive's license is for this book... Or I could buy it with Amazon Fun Buxx, (the scrip they pay you for choosing slower shipping,) and then get a good copy off of LibGen.

Les Roberts: Sheehan's Dog (Hardcover, 2022, Down & Out Books) No rating

A murder mystery set in Cleveland, Ohio.

He was in the elevator on his way down before she Looked at the card again. The phone number had a 216 code, which meant Cleveland—yet his home address was a dock slip at the Harbor Lagoon in Vermillion.

Sheehan's Dog by  (18%)

I mean, that's not weird. Especially if this book is set when it was written, circa 2022.

xkcd.wtf/1129/

Robert E. Howard: The Complete Chronicles of Conan (2006, Victor Gollancz) No rating

This isn't actually the collection I have, but it no longer exists on Amazon. I started reading this aaaaaages ago. Got several stories in and wandered off.

It's interesting to see the modern roots of low fantasy, but when I read that, "he was a good friend of HP Lovecraft," it, ugh...makes sense. Hella racist in a way that is more up front than Tolkien or whatever.

Might just read the modern queer Red Sonja book instead.

Content warning TV adaptations of two infamously long-running stories

Becky Chambers: Record of a Spaceborn Few (Hardcover, english language, 2018, Hodder & Stoughton)

Centuries after the last humans left Earth, the Exodus Fleet is a living relic, a …

Then one of my friends, she started her host training, and she was telling me about it - not just the physical side of it, but all the ethos and whatnot. I was Like, hey, that sounds pretty cool. And it was, and here I am.'

Record of a Spaceborn Few by  (Wayfarers, #3) (55%)

Honestly, same for being a librarian. The ethos as much as the work. I don't [think I] get people off though.

@klara@wandering.shop Oh, very fair with JRPG being more nebulous nowadays. It is more of a mindset than from a place. I see JRPGs more as a story about people and they are frequently more linear. Whereas western RPGs (wRPGs?) are more about "you" the main character in a world. Far more wandering around by and large.

Bug Fables and I am Setsuna are two that I really like out of the indie market.

I actually like the mindless grind. Less the, "random encounter every tile as you try to steal a weapon out of a pyramid" that Dragon Warrior III has, but more like, initiating specific battles to get a currency to level up a thing. Even in FPSes, I tend to go more for Destiny or Warframe than something where the tight story is mainly what you're doing.

Honkai Star Rail, (untill they busted the union) …