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joachim

joachim@lire.boitam.eu

A rejoint ce serveur il y a 3 années, 7 mois

I mostly read SF&F. My 2021, 2022

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Languages: fr, en.

DM me if you want to read books that I've read, I can lend most of them as ePubs.

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Guy Gavriel Kay: Tigana (1999) 5 étoiles

Tigana is a 1990 fantasy novel by Canadian writer Guy Gavriel Kay. The novel is …

I’m a sucker for Kay’s type of fantasy.

5 étoiles

A very good work of fantasy playing with deeper concepts than “magical secret orphan prince” tropes. The long time I spent reading it is unrelated to its quality (but more related to my brain's bandwidth capacity these last 6 months). The characters are compelling, the Aragorn-type is way more human than Tolkien’s Aragorn and the bad guys are well rounded and have interesting motivations. On the other hand I don’t remember if the book passes the Bechdel Test and the women roles could have been bigger.

Samit Basu: The City Inside (Hardcover, 2022, Tordotcom) 5 étoiles

“They'd known the end times were coming but hadn’t known they’d be multiple choice.”

Joey …

Finished this novel by @samitbasu@mastodon.social on the backdrop of Indian PM Narendra Modi visiting Macron for Bastille Day celebrations. Fitting, really, when in France there's talks of generalized surveillance of the population (like the ability for the police to unlock your phone to record people).