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jojoinabox@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 months, 1 week ago

Resident of Aotearoa New Zealand, and a lover of cats, theatre, and history. Chronically fatigued and trying to rebuild my reading habits so I can inhale massive tomes on the regular again. They/them.

Also @jojoinabox on mastodon.nz, BlueSky, and The StoryGraph.

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2025 Reading Goal

25% complete! Jojo has read 5 of 20 books.

Ann Leckie: The Raven Tower (Paperback, 2019, Orbit) 4 stars

Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. …

My wife really enjoyed this, so she's passed it along to me before it goes back to the library. One of the plotlines is very Hamlet, but the setting changes it enough that it's still interesting. The other plotline about the narrator is very interesting indeed!

Good use of effective second person; you don't see that much.

Noah Lefevre: Century of Song (2024, Page Street Publishing Company) No rating

Another Christmas gift, and one that I'd been eyeing up ever since it was announced, as I've been following Polyphonic online for a while now.

I've decided that while I read about each of the songs picked to reprent the associated year, I'm going to listen to those songs, as there are quite a few that I'm not already very familiar with.

So far, it looks like the Smol Cat likes jazz as much as I do!

reviewed The Bookshop Detectives by Gareth Ward and Louise Ward (The Bookshop Detectives, #1)

Gareth Ward and Louise Ward: The Bookshop Detectives (Paperback, 2024, Penguin) 3 stars

Two small-town booksellers (and their cowardly dog) solve a decades-old murder-mystery in this witty debut …

Easy, breezy, no-brain-required

3 stars

A very light murder mystery with a high cose-factor. The writing style is very casual (more than my general preference and bordering on unpolished), but the plot is well paced and the reveals are surprising without being too unexpected. It definitely feels like a self-indulgent project for the authors, but I don't think that's a bad thing. It's a cute, comfy Kiwi mystery, and fits that brief very well.