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Mikhail’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Mikhail’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
Mikhail S. Rekun’s Followers (46)
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Mikhail S. Rekun
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Member Since
November 2013
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How Russia Lost Bulgaria, 1878–1886: Empire Unguided
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2018
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2 editions
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| Broke through a long reading drought with this little novella. As always, Martha Wells delivers an unconventional protagonist, an intriguing world, and a fun story. This is a good bit shorter than her Cloud Roads or the Death of the Necromancer, and ...more | |
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I feel like the Rising World stuff just doesn't click for me. Too many characters with whom we spend too little time, but are expected to care deeply about. Murderbot and the Cloud Roads have some of the same issue (Wells loves her cast herds), but bo ...more |
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| I read this the first time.... oh lord, it was a good and long while ago. In my late teens, I think. I reread it a few times, and then it sort of got lost in the shuffle, and I forgot about it for some years. Didn't help that Carey's latest books lac ...more | |
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...not for the entophobic. Otherwise, I think this is a solid entry in the Kingfisher Horror Universe, though it lacks the pure alien terror of Hollow Spaces. Still, it's weird and gross and has some markedly disturbing moments, though I didn't find i ...more |
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| Somehow, this has become one of my favorite little short stories. It's clever, funny, and a good pick me up I can get through in twenty minutes after a disappointing read. ...more | |
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| Yeah no, I really do not need to watch Corrie Swanson explain how AI will solve the case while Nora Kelly hangs out with her billionaire boyfriend. Hard pass. | |
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| Definitely a bit of a sophomore slump. I suspect Logan used his very best ideas in the first book, and so the second was something of a kludge. Still, while there are critiques to be made (some questionable plotting, a little too heavy a reliance on ...more | |
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DNF fairly early on. I think there is something about Saintcrow's writing that just rubs me the wrong way. It's too... hm... I want to say pretentious but that isn't quite right. It's a little too intentional, too focused on the emotional effect that ...more |
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| To quote the great Lindsay Ellis, this is trash but it is my trash. Fun and enchanting, but in dire need of an editor - this is a very big book with a lot going on, but I think you could probably slice about 30% of the page count quite productively. | |
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The word that comes to mind here is "fun". This is not a work of sublime literary merit. Schaefer does not do anything terribly new here. This book will not, on the whole, shock or surprise you. But it will please and amuse you. The whole series is ba ...more |
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“While money can't buy happiness, it certainly lets you choose your own form of misery.”
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“Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.”
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
― The Essential Groucho: Writings For By And About Groucho Marx
“When you're in jail, a good friend will be trying to bail you out. A best friend will be in the cell next to you saying, 'Damn, that was fun'.”
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“From the moment I picked up your book until I put it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.”
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“Men are so simple of mind, and so much dominated by their immediate needs, that a deceitful man will always find plenty who are ready to be deceived.”
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Doorways in the Sand
— 22 members
— last activity Apr 29, 2016 08:29AM
Welcome! A flash group to coordinate and share about Doorways in the Sand by Roger Zelazny, nominated for a Hugo and a Nebula. One of his personal fav ...more
The Long Way... To a Common Orbit flash group
— 23 members
— last activity May 03, 2017 05:52PM
A flash group read means grab it quick, read it quick, pop in often. Tor has a sample chapter of The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet here: http://w ...more
The Folly Irregulars
— 202 members
— last activity Jul 30, 2025 10:49PM
A place to discuss and wax enthusiastic about Aaronovitch's Peter Grant series. ...more
