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Sheila’s 2025 Year in Books
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It's (sorta) Romans and (sorta) Celts in this one! I loved the different cultures and customs in this. The first quarter of the book was very slow. The two leads really just hang out. But after that there's a big twist that I could see was seeded earl ...more |
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| This felt so much like a regency romance in a lot of ways. The ridiculous family, the question of debt and political marriage, a lot of painfully awkward scenes in fancy sitting rooms. And yet, the Greek or Roman vibes felt real enough that I would v ...more | |
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| An enjoyable read. A stagecoach chase to Gretna Green, complete with doublecrossing and double-double-crossing. Nice to have Black characters included; a lot of historical fiction neglects how diverse England has been for centuries. | |
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| Couldn't get through it. The writing felt overwrought, and I mean even after accounting for it being Victorian. The actual Victorians could not possibly have written such an agonizing story, because at least they had some restraint. Instead, one char ...more | |
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What I liked: the robot, the main character, the big cast of colorful characters. What I didn't so much like: the plot. It was convoluted, seesawing from cozy to menacing and back again, to the point where I was never quite sure if anything bad was ha ...more |
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| This one is from Varazda's point of view, which I liked finally seeing. We can see now that he exists as a kind of nonbinary unique to himself, shifting between the worlds of men and of women as his position in society allows. He's also got his littl ...more | |
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| Found this while looking for books like KJ Charles. It didn't disappoint. We've got a historical world that feels real, with characters whose attitudes feel genuinely shaped by their time and place. We've got both period-typical homophobia and period ...more | |
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“I had decided it was better to be crushed between the wheels of the machine than to be one of the men turning them.”
― Black Sails to Sunward
― Black Sails to Sunward
“I realized that I was never going to make it to being the police chief unless I allowed myself to be transformed. Because the machine propagates itself; it doesn’t allow anyone at the controls who hasn’t been completely made over into its image.”
― Black Sails to Sunward
― Black Sails to Sunward
“All right," said Susan. "I'm not stupid. You're saying humans need... fantasies to make life bearable."
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Hogfather
REALLY? AS IF IT WAS SOME KIND OF PINK PILL? NO. HUMANS NEED FANTASY TO BE HUMAN. TO BE THE PLACE WHERE THE FALLING ANGEL MEETS THE RISING APE.
"Tooth fairies? Hogfathers? Little—"
YES. AS PRACTICE. YOU HAVE TO START OUT LEARNING TO BELIEVE THE LITTLE LIES.
"So we can believe the big ones?"
YES. JUSTICE. MERCY. DUTY. THAT SORT OF THING.
"They're not the same at all!"
YOU THINK SO? THEN TAKE THE UNIVERSE AND GRIND IT DOWN TO THE FINEST POWDER AND SIEVE IT THROUGH THE FINEST SIEVE AND THEN SHOW ME ONE ATOM OF JUSTICE, ONE MOLECULE OF MERCY. AND YET—Death waved a hand. AND YET YOU ACT AS IF THERE IS SOME IDEAL ORDER IN THE WORLD, AS IF THERE IS SOME...SOME RIGHTNESS IN THE UNIVERSE BY WHICH IT MAY BE JUDGED.
"Yes, but people have got to believe that, or what's the point—"
MY POINT EXACTLY.”
― Hogfather
“I am only now, at the wrong end of three centuries after loss of contact, beginning to realise just how broken my own superior culture actually was. They set us here to make exhaustive anthropological notes on the fall of every sparrow. But not to catch a single one of them. To know, but very emphatically not to care.”
― Elder Race
― Elder Race
“I’ve never cared about religion, aside from as a subject of study in others, but in my blackest pits of despair I always find God and call out for help, because only an omnipotent outside force could possibly move the stone that is pressing me down. And God walks away, single footsteps off into the collective unconscious. He doesn’t care. Why should he? I wouldn’t.”
― Elder Race
― Elder Race
“You were, not for the first time, overwhelmed with the suspicion that you were standing in the middle of what you had thought to be scenery, only to reach out and discover that it was all so much flimsy. You were not a central lever within a mystery, but a bystander watching a charlatan display a trick. Your eyes had followed the bright light or colour, and you realised with a start that you ought to have been watching the other hand. You were standing in a darkened corridor, and you could not turn around: and then a brief explosion of light revealed to you that it wasn't a corridor at all, and it had never been dark.”
― Harrow the Ninth
― Harrow the Ninth
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