Some book recs from Harvard library staff, including a bunch of fantasy: [link] I saw at least a blurb from someone we know!

Thanks y’all! I feel like I get one off recs here and there from friends or random article but hoping to find something that’s more ongoing/dedicated. (At the moment just have a lot of trashy romances downloaded for my plane flights tomorrow along with a couple episodes of the queer Ultimatum)

David I read Tanya Huff so long ago I’ve got her stuff I n paperback rather than kindle! I still remember going out to visit you in SF and going to that scifi bookstore (no recollection of the name)

And I have read several FT Lukens but not that one.

I recently read The Bookish Life of Nina Hill, which is sort of women's lit/romance. Not my usual stomping grounds, but I liked it.

Legends and Lattes is a cozy, lesbian fantasy (fantasy with lesbians, not fantasizing about lesbians) that I liked. Divinity 36, by Gail Carriager was enjoyable. It's SF, rather than the steampunk the author's more known for.

It's low-hanging fruit, but I usually get my first line of recs from the Hugo noms, with additional ideas from Tumblr, Metafilter, and any of the lists from NPR, WaPo and the like. But I don't go through books all that fast.

My favorite thing is to come across a story I really like in a random anthology (I will buy anthologies because I like the title or theme or whatever and pick them up and put them down in between other books) and then seek out everything I can by that author. Not that that helps all that much when I am just at a loose end wanting something new to read that isn't already in my TBR

Also, I just read Divinity 36 and the two previous novels that are in the same universe but not the same characters/story. Reminded me of Space Opera except maybe American Idol instead of Eurovision? Sort of? I guess it is the start of a series and I will probably read the next one, but I don't yet love these as much as the Parasol Protectorate etc. I like the characters and the world building is interesting so I expect they will grow on me.

So, I’ve been listening to all of Radch novels, since Translation State had references to things I could not remember at all, or only vaguely remembered, and the reread is very worthwhile. I just had an aha moment that Justice of Toren being ordered to kill Lt Awn is like the mentat Duncan Idaho having to kill Paul and I had to tell someone.

If this was very obvious to everyone go ahead and tell me so, I can take it.

Also that Breq and Thing from the Addams Family could relate

Guess what appeared on my Kindle today! The Book of Gems by Fran Wilde. Woot! I am indeed looking forward to this.

Showed up on my phone overnight! Very excited

excellent!

This last week, I read The Time of Man by Elizabeth Madox Roberts, which was published in 1926. It was remarkably good: a domestic novel about the life of a white share-cropper woman in (possibly?) Appalachia in the early 1900s. It almost read like an SF novel: it's such an insular community, confined by poverty and ignorance, but still experiencing all the variety of human experience. I thought it was excellent, if more than a bit over-written.

And I'd never heard of it, or Roberts, before, because patriarchy, I assume.