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joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Hild by Nicola Griffith (The Hild Sequence, #1)
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Nettle & Bone by T. Kingfisher
joachim@lire.boitam.eu wants to read L'étoile de mer by Popier Popol
Commandé ce matin chez ma libraire préférée. Vivement la semaine prochaine @Popierpopol@piaille.fr @editionsgrevis@mastodon.top
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Locklands by Robert Jackson Bennett
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading Zoey Is Too Drunk for This Dystopia by David Wong (Zoey Ashe, #3)
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed House of Open Wounds by Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Tyrant Philosophers, #2)
Utterly engrossing
5 stars
I really like how this world works, the magic, the gods, the attention to detail, and the way humans deal with all that. Also, a great cast of characters and a worthy conclusion.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading A City on Mars by Kelly Weinersmith
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated System Collapse: 4 stars

System Collapse by Martha Wells(duplicate) (The Murderbot Diaries, #7)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in Network Effect, the Barish-Estranza corporation …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu commented on Musashi by Eiji Yoshikawa
It's quite long, but I enjoy the pure serial-ness of the writing. It was published in a newspaper, so you had to keep the readers coming for more, I guess. Will anything will ever be resolved? I still have more than half the book to find out.
joachim@lire.boitam.eu reviewed Jinn-Bot of Shantiport by Samit Basu
A solid, fun, imaginative and enjoyable book
5 stars
Samit Basu doesn’t lack humour and imagination, which make this story very enjoyable. His previous books have mixed cultural and political elements of Indian life with fantasy and science fiction, enriching old westerner tropes and bringing new life to genres that have for too long been only explored by white dudes.
The heart of the story is the question: if you were living in a world menaced by sea rise and dominated by ultra rich factions, and if you found a magic lamp with a genie, what would you ask them? Of course you’d have first to find said magic lamp, and fight your way to keep it when the whole power structure wants it too. Luckily in this scenario you’d be a mischievous monkey robot with delusions of grandeur…
joachim@lire.boitam.eu commented on Saint Death's Daughter by C. S. E. Cooney
joachim@lire.boitam.eu rated A Choir of Lies: 4 stars

Alexandra Rowland: A Choir of Lies (2019, Gallery / Saga Press)
A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation from economic ruin, in the …
joachim@lire.boitam.eu finished reading A Choir of Lies by Alexandra Rowland
A young storyteller must embrace his own skills—and the power of stories—to save a nation …
Good follow-up: expands the story without repeating it