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2025 Reading Goal

63% complete! Alex has read 19 of 30 books.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth (Hardcover, 2019, Tordotcom)

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian …

Dark and messy

I loved it, merging dark fantasy magic, with a sci-fi setting, and telling a horror story. It was a great page turner for me.

commented on After life by Simon Funk

Simon Funk: After life (EBook)

If you could upload your mind, where would you put it? A postcyberpunk Extropian sci-fi …

Huh chapter two gave me some strange, very vague but nostalgic memory of having read this before? It was a very weird feeling but quite funny, when considering the topic of memory in the first chapter.

quoted Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #2)

T. Kingfisher: Paladin's Strength (Hardcover, 2021, Argyll Productions)

He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s …

Clara smothered a laugh. It was hard to imagine gallant Istvhan, who had faced a wedge of men on horseback with only his sword, being afraid of the sea. Then again, you’ve seen him talk his way or fight his way out of everything. He is very confident in his ability to do those things. Perhaps it would be unsettling to have a foe that responds to neither, and doesn’t even know it’s your foe.

Paladin's Strength by  (The Saint of Steel, #2)