@catship I think her Hugo-winning short story, "Cat Pictures Please", clarkesworldmagazine.com/kritzer_01_15/, is an essential complement to said book. (I haven't read the novel yet but it's On The List!)
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A woman standing next to me has a moldy radish that she must have brought just for this moment, and she flings it at one of the riot cops in front of us.
— The City in the Middle of the Night by Charlie Jane Anders
I bookmarked this passage to post later, and now is later.. it still makes me smile.
M@ wants to read Eclipse of the crescent moon by Gárdonyi, Géza
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Eclipse of the crescent moon by Gárdonyi, Géza
In 1541,the crown of Hungary is up for grabs. King John, seeing that the Austrians were attacking with an innumerable …
@LizAndra Another excellent audio experience for this book is Sir Patrick Stewart's one-person show!
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I like how Gussie's obsession with newts is supposed to be The Most Boring Thing Ever, but every time he goes off on a tangent about them my reaction is "please tell me more, this is much more interesting than your upper class twit friends are".
M@ quoted A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1)
But hope is good strong drink, especially when you can get someone else to buy it for you.
— A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1) (Page 260)
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M@ quoted The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
I did try saying things like, “I won’t bite,” only I said it while seething, so the message that actually got conveyed was that biting would be mild by comparison with whatever I would do instead.
— The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2) (Page 150)
This line of dialog, with the pronouns slightly shifted to get the POV characters right, would work in a Wodehouse novel describing an interaction between Bertie Wooster and Rodrick Spode.
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M@ wants to read Lote by Shola von Reinhold
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Lote by Shola von Reinhold
Lush and frothy, incisive and witty, Shola von Reinhold’s decadent queer literary debut immerses readers in the pursuit of aesthetics …
M@ rated The Last Graduate: 5 stars
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The Last Graduate by Naomi Novik (The Scholomance, #2)
Return to the Scholomance - and face an even deadlier graduation - in the stunning sequel to the ground-breaking, Sunday …
M@ rated The Golden Enclaves: 5 stars
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The Golden Enclaves by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #3)
The one thing you never talk about while you’re in the Scholomance is what you’ll do when you get out. …
M@ rated A Deadly Education: 5 stars
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A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik (Scholomance, #1)
A Deadly Education is set at Scholomance, a school for the magically gifted where failure means certain death (for real) …
M@ rated SUMMARY of Book Lovers by Emily Henry: 5 stars
M@ rated Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall): 5 stars
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Conventions of War (Dread Empire's Fall) by Walter Jon Williams
The universe has fallen into bloody chaos now that the dread empire of the tyrannical Shaa is no more -- …
M@ rated The sundering: 5 stars
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The sundering by Walter Jon Williams (Dread empire's fall)
The Dread Empire of the Shaa is no more, following the death of the last oppressor. But freedom remains elusive …