effika

effika

@effika

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My hobbies are all excuses to collect pretty colors. I enjoy knitting, sewing, running, trombone-ing, gardening, & sci-fi short stories. Coding when necessitated and occasionally for fun. Microbiology for fun & (non-)profit.

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effika
@effika

It is Friday and I Need a New Book to Read by Sunday!

Reply with the number (or numbers) you think I ought to go for next.

But how can I pick when I don't know what you just read?? In that case: Just coming off of The Year's Best Science Fiction vol. 8 (ed. Gardner Dozois, rip) and Exhalation by Ted Chiang.

Choices, complete with notes I thought I needed at the time of entry to my To Be Read list:

  1. Iron widow (Chinese emperoress in the future who pilots a mech)
  2. Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco
  3. When the Angels left the old country by Sacha Lamb
  4. City of Stairs (fantasy spy novel)
  5. Hail Mary by Andy Weir
  6. The Spare Man by Mary Robinette Kowal
  7. The 10,000 doors of January (Alix E Harrow)
  8. The Professor and the Madman
  9. Children of Time (Lessa recommends)
  10. Everyone in my family has killed someone (murder mystery)
  11. Lake of Souls (Anne Leckie stories)
  12. Daughter of Mystery
  13. [other] - suggest something not on this list!
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pinewarbler
@pinewarbler

have you read any Ursula Le Guin? i recently read two books of her short stories: The Wind’s Twelve Quarters (which includes cohost’s favorite story about a little town called Omelas) and Changing Planes (not strictly a collection—it has a fun meta narrative that frames the stories) and i highly recommend either/both!

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