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Maria Langer | 📝 🎬 ⚒️🛥️

Just finished "reading" (as an audiobook) "The Wager." It's about an 18th century shipwreck at the Drake Passage. I heard about it on NPR and thought it would make a good drive "read." I wound up listening to most of it while doing mindless chores around the house. It's an interesting saga of stupidity and blindly following orders with a dose of politics, imperialism, and white supremacy. It was an interesting look into the times. #IAmReading

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Michaela Maya

"It's eat or be eaten"

"The Starving Saints" by Caitlin Starling wasn't what I expected it would be - but I still wasn't disappointed by this enticing, fast-paced, vivid story of false idols and (CW) cannibalism. The second half gets a bit too trippy for my taste and I feel it doesn't quite tie up all lose ends. But it's an exciting ride nevertheless. I also liked the narration of the audiobook. @bookstodon #WeekendRead #bookstodon #amreading #iamreading #frauenlesen

The audiobook cover of "The Starving Saints" by Caitlin Starling. The inserted text to the left reads "A castle besieged, a people starving, a desperation that attracts forces that could mean their salvation or their damnation. A heretic, a knight and a survivor battle with the dangerous unknown. Will they fall under the "saints'" spell and feast upon each other - or will they find a way to end the madness? Four stars." The inserted text to the bottom right reads "imaginative, trippy, entertaining"
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Tea 🍵 💙🎶🌻

I am reading Dr. Fauci's autobiography. The preface is powerful -- he tells about the moment he got the results of the clinical trials and how he started to cry:

"The fact that they were projecting at least 90 percent effectiveness for the COVID vaccine was astonishing... This would be the ultimate game changer... Millions of lives would be saved."

#IAmReading#Bookstodon#DoctorFauci
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Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

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Today, I'm reading the brand new graphic novel adaptation of THE PARABLE OF THE TALENTS. It's very good. Gorgeous hardback cover and great artwork, just like THE PARABLE OF THE SOWER. I wish the lettering were not so small, cuz old.

I'm grateful that the Octavia Butler estate agreed to this.

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Edelruth In The Wrong Timeline

I am thoroughly enjoying Wolfe Hall, by Hilary Mantel, despite - or maybe because? - one knows how it ends for the more well-known protagonists.
It's about the other Cromwell.

I started Dr Space Junk vs the Universe, by Alice Gorman, and its teaching me fascinating details about the space program.

I interrupted myself to start a new, and very different detective series.
#1 The Cold, Cold Ground by Adrian McKinty
When I finished, it was 4am. On to book 2

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Kim Possible :kimoji_fire:

Just started reading LUMINOUS, by Silvia Park. It is a literary fiction Sci Fi novel, set in a near future Unified Korea, where biotech has blurred the line between robot and human.

I find the premise intriguing, particularly the exploration of identity and agency. Just a couple chapters in so far.

Colorful book cover: a field of deep purple, bordered by curving arc of blue, red and yellow. Atop a high verdant green pedestal, stands a rare white tiger, whose body is a kaleidoscope of parts in all different colors.
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