cblgh commented on The Tyrant Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade, #3)
The hunt is over. After fifteen years of lies and sacrifice, Baru Cormorant has the …
i'll say, i think this is picking up some of the slack left by book #2
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cblgh commented on The Monster Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade, #2)
will i stay up too late again (like i did with book #1) trying to read the ending in one swoop?
time will tell, reader, time will tell
cblgh wants to read Children of Ruin by Adrian Tchaikovsky
The astonishing sequel to Children of Time, the award-winning novel of humanity’s battle for survival …
discovered this when visiting the science fiction bookstore in town—i had no idea there was a sequel to Children of Time!
cblgh reviewed The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade, #1)
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home …
Fantastic
5 stars
cblgh commented on The Traitor Baru Cormorant by Seth Dickinson (The Masquerade, #1)
Tomorrow, on the beach, Baru Cormorant will look up from the sand of her home …
really enjoying this one :) i'm such a sucker for a good bildungsroman lol
cblgh wants to read Babel-17 by Samuel R. Delany (Ace book 04591)
During an interstellar war one side develops a language, Babel-17, that can be used as …
found a copy of this in a free library in a defunct factory, yesterday
cblgh finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
lovely, lovely book. another great bookwyrm social find :~)
cblgh commented on The Difference Engine by William Gibson (Bantam spectra book)
Fictional speculation on what would have happened if the computer had been invented in the …
meta: i have to say that GOD it is so satisfying to play hobby librarian and fix the metadata of books you're going to read. i love that i don't have to add EVERYTHING, but can instead do the last bits like, fix broken covers and restore the original publication date.
very happy that bookwyrm is so enabling in this respect :>
cblgh commented on Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a …
enjoying this :)
cblgh commented on Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky (Children of Time, #1)
The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a …
big time in-between-books rn. i tried getting into Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing but bounced really hard on the chi & pseudoscience vibe of it (which is a shame, cause the prose & other themes really resonated otherwise).
so it's time for another bookwyrm recommendation! gonna give tchaikovsky a try since i feel like i've seen that name for quite a while now :)
cblgh commented on From counterculture to cyberculture by Fred Turner
In the early 1960s, computers haunted the American popular imagination. Bleak tools of the cold …
this book has already appeared a couple of times during my reading of Lurking, and it has also come up in irl convos as well
Thank The BookWyrm that I can now track it properly instead of ambiently & haphazardly try to remember it (i've got a long long list of books to read, as well, but it's mostly a dumping ground :)
cblgh commented on A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine (Teixcalaan, #1)
Ambassador Mahit Dzmare arrives in the center of the multi-system Teixcalaanli Empire only to discover …
spent the entire day devouring this; approaching the plot climax. excellent space drama i would have never thought to read if not for bookwyrm.social
cblgh rated Homage to Catalonia: 5 stars
Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Homage to Catalonia [1] is George Orwell [2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the 'Spanish Civil War'. Alongside many …
cblgh commented on Homage to Catalonia by George Orwell (Penguin twentieth-century classics)
Homage to Catalonia [1] is George Orwell [2]'s account of his experiences fighting in the …
i have so many quotes on this now that i have finished it, i don't wanna spam so i'll try to sift through the best ones
(unspoiler: it is suprisingly good & a not dry recounting of a more-or-less forgotten really important event?!)
cblgh rated Sum: forty tales from the afterlives: 2 stars
Sum: forty tales from the afterlives by David Eagleman
In the afterlife you may find that God is the size of a microbe and unaware of your existence. Or …