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Rated The Priory of the Orange Tree 8/10

Dragons! Witches! Magic swords! Warrior priestesses! Alchemists! More dragons! Pirates!

Rated The New Uncanny 8/10

Rated A Day of Fallen Night 8/10

This took me the whole year to read but that's a reflection of how much time I could find rather than the quality of the book. The writing is sometimes a bit arch and po-faced (but I've been on a Joe Abercrombie kick so everything is by comparison), but it's great. Full of intrigue, queers, and dragons, wyrms, and wyverns. What's not to like?

Rated The Mule 6/10

Rated The Name of the Wind 10/10

Rated A Little Hatred 8/10

Rated The Player of Games 8/10

Rated The Obelisk Gate 8/10

Rated The City We Became 6/10

A very readable eldritch romp. To be applauded for its use of Lovecraftian mythos in a way that he would have hated.

Rated The Dark Tower 8/10

Finished reading Persepolis Rising

Rated Provenance 8/10

Finished reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold: A Toshikazu Kawaguchi Book Set

Rated Before They Are Hanged 8/10

Rated Bi: The Hidden Culture, History, and Science of Bisexuality 6/10

It was... ok. I don't read a lot about sexuality & gender, so found much of the book interesting, at times illuminating, and in parts very relevant and relatable. However, I was disappointed by the author's volte-face on her assertion at the outset that it wasn't going to be about the salacious lives of highly sexualised stereotypes when a gleeful chapter about exactly that turned up towards the end.

Rated Black Widow 10/10

Rated A Prayer for the Crown-Shy 10/10

A little wonder of a book, just like the first one. So much is drawn out of the characters and their world in just 150 pages that you wonder if somehow an extra 150 have been sneaked in without you noticing.

Rated Caliban’s War 8/10

Rated The Prefect 6/10

Rated The Signal and the Noise: Why So Many Predictions Fail—But Some Don't 10/10

Rated The Raw Shark Texts 8/10

Rated A Psalm for the Wild-Built 10/10

An absolute gem of a book. I'm astonished at how much depth of character and world building can be done in such a short story. Truly fantastic.

Rated The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes & Nocturnes 8/10

Rated Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software Construction 10/10

Rated Abaddon’s Gate 8/10