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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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quoted Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #8)

Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards! (Paperback, 2001, HarperTorch)

Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from …

Now pull back briefly from the dripping streets of Ankh - Morpork pan across the morning mists of the Disc, and focus in again on a young man heading for the city with all the openness, sincerity and innocence of purpose of an iceberg drifting into a major shipping lane.

Guards! Guards! by  (Discworld, #8) (5%)

lol

Not even a footnote.

started reading Guards! Guards! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, #8)

Terry Pratchett: Guards! Guards! (Paperback, 2001, HarperTorch)

Here there be dragons...and th denizens of Ankh-Morpork wish one huge firebreather would return from …

I guess I'm doing a new Pratchett instead of continuing my other sci-fi book. Ah well.

Les Roberts: Sheehan's Dog (Hardcover, 2022, Down & Out Books)

A murder mystery set in Cleveland, Ohio.

"Do yeh like degs?"

A solid parboiled murder mystery. Brock is likeable in spite of his gruffness, the dogs are good in the book, and the other humans are alright. The Cleveland references by and large check out.

I enjoyed it.

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)

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.