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How we doing folks? Read many books this year? What's been your favourite so far?

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[-] [email protected] 4 points 2 days ago

I've very recently started using Bookwyrm to track this books I'm reading, I've missed this functionality since I quit Goodreads back when Amazon bought it. But I'm not quite sure what I read before I started tracking...

Here are my highlights of (probably) this past six months:

DCC, this inevitable ruin. Fantastic book, Jeff Hayes is awesome. Don't want to accidentally give spoilers since others are on previous books.

Temeraire, Empire of Ivory. Story about Will and his dragon companion Temeraire. The author is very good at building worlds where the characters have a different way of thinking than an average modern reader, and it's definitely the case here. Will is a dedicated army officer and a proper old-fashioned gentleman. This does often leads to to some limitations in his worldview, such as judging people on their manners. But he is also kind, moral and willing to be proven wrong. And in this book we finally get POV from Temeraire, who's loyal, smart and sometimes naive. It's hard to explain but I really enjoy these books.

Emily Wilde's Encyclopedia of Fairies. It's a world where fairies and their world are real, strange, dangerous and fascinating. our protagonist is a leading scholar in dryadology, she goes around charming /saving/defeating fairies and humans with the power of academic research and bravery ๐Ÿ˜‚

[-] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

BookWyrm is great, seconding!

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