I love to read and sometimes write. I'm active on fedi mostly as @tomasino@tilde.zone. I've been using Goodreads for the past bajillion years and will try to transition here. I run cosmic.voyage and a bunch of fun projects like @SolarpunkPrompts@podcast.tomasino.org
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Everything is constantly the worst it could possibly be. There is no rising tension because the book starts at 100% and then stays there until the end. It's boring. I gave up with less than 30 pages remaining. I don't care how it ends.
"Our Dragon doesn't eat the girls he takes, no matter what stories they tell outside our valley. We hear them …
The BSD North conference draws some of the smartest people in the world. These few …
This is a book for a very specific audience, but for that audience it is pure gold.
Written with the authority of twenty-six years of military and government service at sea and …
Poor writing
An epic fantasy about a young girl raised by a witch, a swamp monster, and a Perfectly Tiny Dragon, who …
Astrophysics for People in a Hurry is a 2017 popular science book by Neil deGrasse Tyson, centering around a number …
THIS IS THE WAY THE WORLD ENDS . . . FOR THE LAST TIME.
IT …
This was marvelous. I must read the next 2 immediately.
Michael J. Sullivan: The disappearance of Winter's daughter (2017)
When Gabriel Winter's daughter mysteriously disappears and is presumed dead, the wealthy whiskey baron seeks revenge. Having lived in Colnora …
"Fumio Sasaki is not an enlightened minimalism expert or organizing guru like Marie Kondo--he's just a regular guy who was …
A race for survival among the stars... Humanity's last survivors escaped earth's ruins to find …
I wish I'd known that spiders feature prominently in this story. I would have avoided it on that alone and saved myself so much squeamishness.
Other than the spider thing the story is quite good and not obvious or predictable.
Absolutely brilliant. I wish it were longer so I could have enjoyed it for another day.
While en route from Syria to Paris, in the middle of a freezing winter's night, the Orient Express is stopped …
