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Antonina_orthefallofrome
📚 “Love is always harder. Love means weathering blows for another’s sake and not counting them.”

👍A historical fiction set in France during the plague. It gave me Pillars of the Earth mixed with The Decameron vibes. I enjoyed following the MC’s on their journey and the character development. There were some consequences and some absolutely bonkers depictions of demons and Hell. The ending had some nice symmetry.

👎 The final boss fight was slightly anti climactic. I feel like after such a long journey, I needed more.
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wordybirdy

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I'm halfway through The Collected Short Stories of Virginia Woolf, and not convinced that this format suits Woolf's writing style. She enjoys wild tangents of fancy that are wonderful in a long form novel, but here suffer from not being able to breathe, and the stories end too abruptly. Nevertheless, so far there are a couple of gems.

What do others here think of her short stories? I'd be curious to know!

What are you all reading this weekend?

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Anti. 🐘

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Edna Bonhomme - A History of the World in Six Plagues

As always, if you are also reading it, happy to discuss.

“Many factors shape our physical and mental health: where we are born, our social class, educational history, gender, genetic issues, and physical environment. The United States is a particularly harsh place to grow up—life expectancy has fallen by three years since 2020—mostly due to Covid-19, but also the worsening of people’s quality of life.
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Frey HG

#CurrentlyReading : (re reading) Accelerando by @cstross as a) its brilliant b) I'm attempting a linked novel (does this count as a fix-up? is that term rude? )

Also (listening to): Loki, a bad God's Guide to being good by Louie Stowell. A wonderful adapation of a wonderful book. As I'm also attempting kidlit

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draNgNon

I'm #CurrentlyReading _Iron Sunrise_ by Charles Stross

I've had the book ever since it came out in mass-market paperback, and read it then. But now I've read _Singularity Sky_, I am catching more references. And of course it's been so long I might as well be reading a new book.

google.com/books/edition/Iron_

Google BooksIron Sunrise“[Stross] has the ability to superimpose an intriguing take on contemporary events over an imaginative story peopled by bizarre characters.” – The Kansas City Star                A G2 star doesn’t just explode—not without outside interference. So the survivors of the planet Moscow, which was annihilated in just such an event, have launched a counterattack against the most likely culprit: the neighboring system of New Dresden.                              But New Dresden wasn’t responsible, and as the deadly missiles approach their target, Rachel Mansour, agent for the interests of Old Earth, is assigned to find out who was. Opposing her is an unknown—and unimaginable—enemy. At stake is not only the fate of New Dresden but also the very order of the universe.                And the one person who knows the identity of that enemy is a disaffected teenager who calls herself Wednesday Shadowmist. But Wednesday has no idea what she knows…
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draNgNon

I'm #CurrentlyReading _Singularity Sky_ by Charles Stross

I had _Iron Sunrise_ for years, then got fed up having not read the prior book, bought it, and it sat on my shelf for a couple years. Now I need to sit calmly with a physical book, so here I am.

google.com/books/edition/Singu

Google BooksSingularity SkyIn a technologically suppressed future, information demands to be free in the debut novel from Hugo Award-winning author Charlie Stross.In the twenty-first century, life as we know it changed. Faster-than-light travel was perfected, and the Eschaton, a superhuman artificial intelligence, was born. Four hundred years later, the far-flung colonies that arose as a result of these events—scattered over three thousand years of time and a thousand parsecs of space—are beginning to rediscover their origins.                The New Republic is one such colony. It has existed for centuries in self-imposed isolation, rejecting all but the most basic technology. Now, under attack by a devastating information plague, the colony must reach out to Earth for help. A battle fleet is dispatched, streaking across the stars to the rescue. But things are not what they seem—secret agendas and ulterior motives abound, both aboard the ship and on the ground. And watching over it all is the Eschaton, which has its own very definite ideas about the outcome...
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🌻 Farah :neuro: :v_bi:

I was reading two years eight months and twenty eight nights by Rushdie. But it’s a bit too heady even though I could understand a lot of context because of my cultural background. I just wish Rushdie wasn’t so formal. It would’ve been more enjoyable. #books #currentlyReading

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Allyson Shaw

“Twenty years ago I wrote a novel about rebellion in a world dominated by AI. Much of the subversion took place in the character’s bodies…”
This month’s round up—what I’m reading, listening to, thinking about and planning. 📸 [Image: from a demonstration in the Kadikoy neighborhood of Istanbul against the eviction of a squatted building. 2014 Ozan Kose—AFP/Getty Images] (reposting) #writingCommunity #nowPlaying #CurrentlyReading #sauna #Feminism #Resistance #HopePunk

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