joachim a commenté Ruin par John Gwynne (The Faithful and the Fallen, #3)
The Banished Lands are engulfed in war and chaos. The cunning Queen Rhin has conquered …
Trying to get back into it after a couple of months
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joachim a noté Fireheart Tiger : 3 étoiles
Fireheart Tiger de Aliette de Bodard
Fire burns bright and has a long memory….
Quiet, thoughtful princess Thanh was sent away as a hostage to the …
joachim a terminé la lecture de The High Crusade par Poul Anderson
In the year of grace 1345, as Sir Roger Baron de Tourneville is gathering an …
Very entertaining read. What if alien invasion, but in the times of the crusades? What if longbows and war horses against atomic bombs? What if English feudal barbarism against extraterrestrial empire civilizations?
joachim a terminé la lecture de Clockwork Boys par T. Kingfisher (Clocktaur War, #1)
A paladin, an assassin, a forger, and a scholar ride out of town. It’s not …
Enjoyable fantasy
joachim a noté A Prayer for the Crown-Shy : 5 étoiles
A Prayer for the Crown-Shy de Becky Chambers (Monk & Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) and Mosscap (a robot sent …
joachim a terminé la lecture de A Prayer for the Crown-Shy par Becky Chambers (Monk & Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
A short, great read. I long for that kinda life.
joachim a terminé la lecture de Paladin's Grace par T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #1)
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is …
Short and sweet, despite the poisons and the corpseless heads.
joachim a commenté Paladin's Grace par T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #1)
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is …
Viewing this book on Goodreads I saw a list for well written comfort books where people are nice to each other, and I gotta say, this book is exactly that. So I made a list on here with books I read/I'm reading soon. It's an open group, so please feel free to contribute with your faves from Science Fiction & Fantasy. Basically, the closest it makes you feel to a book from Becky Chambers, the best it'll fit in this list.
lire.boitam.eu/list/61/s/books-where-people-are-nice-to-each-other
joachim a publié une critique de The Quantum Magician par Derek Künsken (The Quantum Evolution, #1)
Belisarius is a quantum man, an engineered Homo quantus who fled the powerful insight of …
Good, efficient SF.
4 étoiles
Interesting concepts, well-made story, many characters have multiple dimensions, it can be read quickly.
joachim a publié une critique de Two Wheels Good par Jody Rosen
A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world
“The …
An history of how we've been thinking about bicycles
4 étoiles
Loads of things to learn in this book. The author is clearly big on bikes, and many of his reportages show it.
joachim a publié une critique de Foundryside par Robert Jackson Bennett (The Founders Trilogy, #1)
Sancia Grado is a thief, and a damn good one. And her latest target, a …
Really interesting magical system!
4 étoiles
joachim a publié une critique de Eyes of the Void par Adrian Tchaikovsky (The Final Architecture, #2)
After one great battle, the Architects disappeared. Yet humanity’s fragile peace is brief. For, forty …
Both action- and concept-packed
5 étoiles
joachim veut lire Musashi par Eiji Yoshikawa
The classic samurai novel about the real exploits of the most famous swordsman.
Miyamoto Musashi …
I found this absolute brick of a book in a "give one take one" box, so I couldn't pass it up.
joachim a noté Station Eleven : 5 étoiles
Station Eleven de Emily St. John Mandel
The international publishing sensation now available in paperback: an audacious, darkly glittering novel about art, fame and ambition, set in …