Gabe rated Daughter of the Forest: 5 stars
Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (Sevenwaters, #1)
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft of a mother, she is …
Absolutely loved it.
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I’m a nonbinary (they/them) musician and guitar teacher in Lexington, KY. I'm super into sci-fi and fantasy, but I dig just about any genre of fiction if it's well written (or if it's not but it's, like, got some cool ideas - looking firmly at you, Asimov).
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Gabe finished reading Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier (Sevenwaters, #1)
Lovely Sorcha is the seventh child and only daughter of Lord Colum of Sevenwaters. Bereft …
Gabe started reading The Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin (The Broken Earth, #1)
This is the way the world ends. Again.
Three terrible things happen in a …
Recommended by a friend
Gabe commented on FOUNDATION (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) by Isaac Asimov (Foundation (3))
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are …
I’m finding it consistently funny that Asimov seems to view psychology’s principle and most important goal to be predicting human behavior like a hard science, in a way that can be calculated out with the same certainty as kinematics or chemical reactions. It’s like he can’t envision a use for soft sciences that doesn’t just make them hard sciences. I’m honestly finding the psychohistory stuff pretty dull here, tbh - it’s like making a story out of characters’ lack of agency.
Gabe finished reading The Gods Themselves (The Isaac Asimov Collection) by Isaac Asimov
The year is 2100 A.D.…
And Man no longer stands alone in the universe.
…This is simultaneously one of the best books I’ve ever read (in its second part) and one of the worst books I’ve ever read (in its third part).
Gabe commented on FOUNDATION (Foundation Novels (Paperback)) by Isaac Asimov (Foundation (3))
One of the great masterworks of science fiction, the Foundation novels of Isaac Asimov are …
I recently overdosed on Asimov and his misogyny after the final part of The Gods Themselves, but I’m back at it again, ready to be blown away by cool sci fi and woefully disappointed and distressed by Asimov as a person and how it bleeds into the work.
Gabe finished reading Speaker for the Dead (Ender Quartet) by Orson Scott Card
Ender Wiggin, the young military genius, discovers that a second alien war is inevitable and …
Good times, but I couldn’t ignore the “colonization is good tho” narrative, and the constant noble savages trope
Gabe finished reading The Golem and the Djinni by Helene Wecker
Absolutely loved it
Gabe finished reading Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her …
This has been my favorite Earthseed book so far - I need to collect my thoughts and review it soon.
Gabe started reading Quichotte by Salman Rushdie
Started this one as an audiobook on a road trip and absolutely loved it. I’m stuck now, though - there’s only a little over an hour left, but I was listening to it with my fiancée and we basically only listen to audiobooks together on road trips. Driving me crazy to know the end - I’ve really gotta push her to finish it with me
Gabe started reading The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon
One night in 1939, Josef Kavalier shuffles into his cousin Sam Clay’s cramped New York …
I’ve been meaning to check this one off for a while now. I first got into Chabon through The Yiddish Policeman’s Union, which I adored, but every time I brought it up to people they’d tell me that this was his best book. Idk why I was dragging my feet, but I’m here now.
Gabe finished reading The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in …
This is easily one of my favorite books of all time, and I'm finding (after having recently read 100 Years of Solitude as well and being a staunch Murakami fan) that magical realism is probably my main, favorite genre (or at least tied with sci fi). The way this book weaves through time, through different characters and seemingly separate vignettes, all while maintaining a kind of spiritual continuity and adding depth of understanding to the others, thoroughly pulled me in.
This book is largely about racism and the English immigrant experience, and without giving spoilers I want to say that this book from the 1980's set in London is depressingly relevant to the 2020s US (and I suspect the UK as well, but I only feel comfortable commenting on my own culture). It felt like a truly powerful exploration of it, and the infusion of the supernatural never felt …
This is easily one of my favorite books of all time, and I'm finding (after having recently read 100 Years of Solitude as well and being a staunch Murakami fan) that magical realism is probably my main, favorite genre (or at least tied with sci fi). The way this book weaves through time, through different characters and seemingly separate vignettes, all while maintaining a kind of spiritual continuity and adding depth of understanding to the others, thoroughly pulled me in.
This book is largely about racism and the English immigrant experience, and without giving spoilers I want to say that this book from the 1980's set in London is depressingly relevant to the 2020s US (and I suspect the UK as well, but I only feel comfortable commenting on my own culture). It felt like a truly powerful exploration of it, and the infusion of the supernatural never felt overdone.
Gabe commented on Space Opera by Catherynne M. Valente (duplicate)
"Mankind will not get to fight for its destiny. They must sing. A century ago, …
Lemme tell ya, after Chapter 5 this book really gets to me. All the flannel fake gritty folk at all the open mics. Shit. I gotta get back to playing shows again in my ridiculous, fruity getups. I miss it so much, and I really didn’t expect this to get at my experience as a musician like it does.
Gabe wants to read Killing Commendatore by Haruki Murakami
Killing Commendatore (Japanese: 騎士団長殺し, Hepburn: Kishidanchō-goroshi) is a 2017 novel written by Japanese writer Haruki …
Got this as an audio book for a few trips coming up. I’ve read Wind Up Bird Chronicle and a few short stories by Murakami in the past, but generally I’ve just been so taken by magical realism lately and want to keep it going.
Gabe started reading The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie
The Satanic Verses is the fourth novel of British-Indian writer Salman Rushdie. First published in …
Working through the audiobook on Libby.