@fictionable@bookstodon This year, I’ve loved The Little Wartime Library by Kate Thompson, The Scholomance series by Naomi Novik, and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng.
@sylwylvia@bookstodon Right… a second-world-war library on the tube, more Novik – ha! – and deep waters… Have you already read Kate Atkinson's Life After Life?
@TEG@bookstodon OK… a robot explores what it is to be human, a hymn to love and an assassin with a dragon familiar… Have you tried Naomi Novik's Temeraire?
@fictionable@bookstodon I hadn't heard of it, but it looks good, also with that enthusiastic review I took a quick glance at to avoid spoilers - going to give book 1 a try, thanks very much! (Even if only in the most basic sense, it's a return to Pern, one of the first series I read, so that should be nice :))
@fictionable@bookstodon Always wished klah existed in reality. I once considered experimenting, like with oat milk and porridge and coffee or something - maybe someday...
@RHW@TEG@fictionable@bookstodon That's a pretty good description. But I'd wager it's greatest theme is the power of friendship, and to whom loyalty should be given.
@fictionable@bookstodon I've just started reading Temeraire and am enjoying it! And even though it's dragonriding and so can't avoid the comparison, the setting feels different enough to Pern so far (and nothing so blatantly Freudian).
@jendefer@bookstodon So… a meander through friendship (in space), thievery in an alternate Mediterranean and a shapeshifting sidekick who steals the show… How about Isabel Greenberg's Glass Town?
@jendefer@fictionable@bookstodon The Nimona movie was fun - although I would have liked Nimona to have a deeper character as well as the queen. "Fear of everything different" was a bit shallow for me.
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I have been on a non fiction binge, which is unusual for me, but it's been excellent:
We Need to Talk About Antisemitism by Rabbi Diana Fersco
Humankind:A Hopeful History by Rutger Bregman
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
@utbluegirl@bookstodon OK… a clear eye on an ancient scourge, a rebuke to Hobbes and a celebration of indigenous culture… How about keeping up the nonfiction jag with James Bridle's Ways of Being?
@Weltenkreuzer@bookstodon Right… 20,000 words under the sea, the sun on the fritz and magic in an alternate 18th century… Did you already read Alastair Reynold's Century Rain?
@templetongate@bookstodon Right… genderqueer wuxia from the margins, when Buffy meets Harry and a witchy, contemporary Hamlet… Did you already read Amal El-Mohtar and Max Gladstone's This Is How You Lose The Time War?
@fictionable@bookstodon Pardon me for putting it this way, but that's a stupid question. How could I not like it? I bought the hardcover after reading the ebook.
@albnelson@bookstodon OK… conquering incomprehension in space, a family investigation and reportage on the reservation… Have you tried The Nutmeg's Curse by Amitav Ghosh?
It was... Interesting. I got it from the library, but have since bought a copy of that & Feral Self Care for my not-so-mini-me niece. She & I are the family "weirdos" and I think she'll enjoy them both.
@LunarLioness814@bookstodon Right… Agatha Christie meets Glass Onion, big fun in Japan and crafting your way to happiness… Do you already know Ryan North and Erica Henderson's Squirrel Girl?
I do! She's a fun character. Another good one (vaguely a long the same lines) is the Katie The Cat Sitter series. They're skewed slightly younger, but are also fun reads.
@kimlockhartga@bookstodon OK… a road trip round disinformation, a weird western and life down the bunker with Hugh… How about another Nick Harkaway: Gnomon?
@bookstodon@fictionable this is cool
She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
Gideon the Ninth by Tamsin Muir
Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins
@sandsoftime5050@bookstodon OK… loyalty in the darkness, foul-mouthed fantasy horror SF snark and hidden Hollywood… How about The Talented Ribkins by Ladee Hubbard?
@JonChevreau@bookstodon OK… the first time we beat the fascists, the war on democracy and a history of war… Maybe we all need Rebecca Solnit's Hope in the Dark?
◦ Foreboding Foretelling at Ficklehouse Felling by PJ Fitzsimmons. (Anty Boisjoly Mysteries Book 7) Now I have to wait for the author to finish the next.
◦ The old Man Who Read Love Stories by Luis Sepulveda
◦ Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan
@MardraS@bookstodon So… a comedy crime caper, an old man in the jungle and trouble simmering in County Wexford… How about Anne Enright's The Wren, the Wren?
@Likewise Right… so a marriage on ice in a blizzard, Little Women on the basketball court and a family divided… What do you think of Lucy Atkins's Windmill Hill?
@fictionable One paragraph in that review name checks John Carpenter, William Gibson and Iain M Banks, sold. Added to my wish list for purchase next month... 👍 @bookstodon
@toxy@bookstodon OK… Bugworld writ large, more killer robots, classic 20th-century history and a bonus: a clear-eyed look at determinism… Have you tried Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back?
@toxy@fictionable@bookstodon I like a lot of the books others have mentioned so haven't posted my own, it's fun looking through recommendations! I have a recommendation about WWII/Nazi history, In the Garden of Beasts: Love, Terror, and an American Family in Hitler's Berlin by Erik Larson. He's one of my favorite nonfiction authors, he has a way of making history read like fiction. The book is about the American ambassador in Germany after Hitler came to power but before the war.
@golgaloth@bookstodon Hmmm… killer robots, first contact with the Compact and an anarchist deer spirit… you must have read Alastair Reynolds's House of Suns by now, but what about Nick Harkaway's Titanium Noir?
@wendypalmer@bookstodon Hmmm… classic detective fiction with a twist, a spooooky house and Russian folktales turned up to eleven… Have you cracked the spine of Jasper Fforde's #literary fantasies?
@ronsboy67@bookstodon@thestorygraph Hmmm… science meets language meets classic detective fiction… Have you tried Laurent Binet's The 7th Function of Language, translated by Sam Taylor?
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