trochee started reading Escape from Puroland by Charles Stross
Somehow other books with the same ISBN have a slightly different name, but this one is what I got
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trochee finished reading Quantum of Nightmares by Charles Stross
The laundry-verse pivots from Peter Pan to Mary Poppins, with a nod to (among others) D&D, the Teletubbies, American creationist-adjacent museums, muppets (no, not the Muppets), Power Pack, and possibly the Blue Fairy from Pinocchio
At one point Mary the supervillain nanny reaches into her magic bag for something that would stop a T rex (which is coming through as the "walls" thin around the museum; she pulls out an anti tank weapon from her magic handbag
Sounds about right!
trochee wants to read Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
How could I not want to read this
trochee finished reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
So fun.
trochee wants to read A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure …
Recommended by @grimalkina@mastodon.social
trochee wants to read Platonic by Marisa G. Franco
A lively, data-driven guide to finding your people from psychologist Dr. Marisa G. Franco about …
Recommended by an IRL friend
trochee finished reading The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett
The Shepherd's Crown is a comic fantasy novel, the last book written by Terry Pratchett …
Sad that this is the end of the line for Pratchett's books. Beautiful to finish with kid though
trochee started reading The Mimicking of Known Successes by Malka Older (Mossa and Pleiti, #1)
The Mimicking of Known Successes presents a cozy Holmesian murder mystery and sapphic romance, set …
Really enjoying this Jovian post-apocalyptic murder mystery/lesbian love story
trochee wants to read AI Snake Oil by Arvind Narayanan
How could I not want to read this
trochee finished reading Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
This is the usual Laundry Files craziness, this time with heavily self-aware (inside and outside the voice of narrator) references to Barrie and to the mythology around Jack the Ripper
trochee started reading Dead Lies Dreaming by Charles Stross
Thank you library
trochee finished reading Smart Brevity by Mike Allen
Read for work.
Obvious, where it's not "great advice for white dudes people already listen to"
trochee finished reading Infomocracy by Malka Ann Older (The Centenal Cycle, #1)
It's been twenty years and two election cycles since "Information," a powerful search engine monopoly, …
I'd forgotten how much of this book happens in the follow-up books, but I still love microdemocracy and the idea of a 100,000 person centenals.
The worst idea ever, except for all of the other things that we've tried!
trochee wants to read Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky (duplicate)
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, …
Recommended by @ashedryden@xoxo.zone!