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Raconteur, bon-vivant, man-about-town. Book nerd.

Mostly just keeping track of what I've been reading for myself, but always interested in what like-minded souls enjoy when I stumble across their online traces.

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Melissa Chadburn: Tiny Upward Shove (2022, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com)
Martha Wells: Rogue Protocol (2018)
Martha Wells: Artificial condition (2018)

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reviewed All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)

Martha Wells: All Systems Red (EBook, 2017, Tor.com)

"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated spacefaring …

Engaging, unique

I am reminded of one comment I read some time ago from somebody talking about machine intelligence - tehy weren't so much interested in what art a machine would make for humans, but what they would make for one another. To some extent, this series explores that.

reviewed Tiny Upward Shove by Melissa Chadburn

Melissa Chadburn: Tiny Upward Shove (2022, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

Weird and moving

Imagine a book about a coming of age story starting with the death of a young Black/ Filipina victim of Robert Pickton & her journey into becoming a revenge monster from Filipino mythology. This is that book

reviewed Slavic Myths by Noah Charney

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Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapsak: Slavic Myths (2023, Thames & Hudson)

Overview and intro to Slavic Myths and their mythological ethnography

Great read but not definitive

A very good overview and intro to Slavic myths from an ethnographic perspective. Some questionable conclusions but nothing too egregious considering it's really meant to be a very broad introduction.

finished reading Slavic Myths by Noah Charney

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Noah Charney, Svetlana Slapsak: Slavic Myths (2023, Thames & Hudson)

Overview and intro to Slavic Myths and their mythological ethnography

Very good intro to the Slavic myths, with some interesting ethnographic research. Some of the research conclusions are suspect e.g. confusing Frigga and Freya p.161 but well footnoted and a great point of departure. Well worth the read.

finished reading Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 by Mike Mignola

Mike Mignola, Christopher Golden, Dave Stewart, Ben Stenbeck: Baltimore Omnibus Volume 1 (Hardcover, Dark Horse)

Lord Baltimore's story returns in a deluxe omnibus edition!

After a devastating plague ends …

Great story and art, I'm never disappointed by Mignola and his collabs. Looking forward to the second volume!

reviewed Mythos by Stephen Fry

Stephen Fry: Mythos (AudiobookFormat, 2017, Penguin)

A fun retelling of the Greek Myths

First half was great, second half was more familiar so I wasn't as thrilled by the retelling, having already heard it in so many voices. Still, Fry is witty and thorough; he does for Greek mythology what Gaiman did for Norse.