Oh have you read Slaughter House Five???

I have friend from my work who wants me to read this book.

I think valiant attempts were made to acquire the book, so taking a shortcut is where I’d probably end up too. No way I’m being gouged for a used paperback, probably with a broken spine 😱 You have me wondering how I can go and rewatch these Predator movies. I’ve seen (most of) them but it has been a long, long while. I think this must have been back in the day when Netflix was a DVD rental service, remember then?!

This was great 😂

I believe his buddy introduced him to coffee too.

Big huge rec. episode - I was watching the 📚 stack on the left grow before you had to spread things out. I bet the tidying up afterwards took some time to reorganise things back into place. 🍝 Laughed at the “Spaghetti Entrails” story in this episode 😂 So apparently I am in the group that finds you funny 🫵😁👌 I got about 4 “absolutely fantastic”s on my Sound & Fury Bingo Card 😉 5 if “fantastic” alone counts?

Happy Birthday! What a nice gift to give to everyone. I've only read about a half dozen or so of the titles you mention, but many (most) others are on my TBR, so it is always nice when they get an external boost up to the top.

Happy birthday! 🎉 I just had one too so I bought WBG for myself (available on audiobook for other listeners info) Great video, noted down a healthy batch of titles to wish list. I read Shriek:An Afterward ages ago~so glad for the reminder to revisit VanderMeer. Thanks for that too!

This is an incredible list! The ones I have read are some faves and some titles I have never heard of. Hollow Kingdom is now on my radar. Happy Birthday Tina!

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I’d say I’m on for a quest story, but I find that I’m non-too-wild about fumbling around confused as I’m reading! I’m not sure that I’m a reader of the weird, generally. I get frustrated that I’m not getting what’s there in front of me. As for strong contender for Book of the Month, I too am reading mine for July 😁 and it’s 2nd July as I type this to you now. Yes, it’s going to take something exceptional to knock my current book off, even though I’m only 40% in. I know! 😱 “Legacy of Brick & Bone” by Krystle Matar in case you’re curious.

🥇 I was sure that “Kenai” was going to get your coveted Book of the Month award for June! 😲 I think “Ten Low”, “Hel’s Eight” and “Ninth Life” are from “The Factus Sequence” series. I had to update the series name on The StoryGraph when I eventually realised “Ninth Life” was connected. So many July books! I have to wait until November before I get my mittens on “Alien Clay”, by which time Tchaikovsky will probably have released another six books. He just announced a new one for Feb.2025. He is so prolific 😱 We’ve had a heatwave over here 🇬🇧 but it has just calmed down a little. I have many fine books to read for July, but mostly I aim to continue/finish some ongoing series rather than start anything new.

Shut up, our just do a reading

🎧 When I first discovered podcasts I had to work out what kind of work I could do with half my brain distracted. Writing documents needed a whole bunch more concentration than I had anticipated. In the years since then I have never moved on from 1x speed. However, the one time I’ve tried an audio book I had to keep ⏪️ if my focus wavered, and I struggled to know who was who despite the narrator using distinct voices. It was like I needed a different skill level. I imagine the narrator had to figure this book out ahead of the recording!

I haven't heard about this book even once until this review. Thanks!

The 80’s was a great decade. The music from then was fabulous! I think the only thing

HAHAHA i had to rewind the part about booohties lol!!!!!!

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📬 I was absolutely delighted when “Kenai” took the win as you’d persuaded me to haul it just days before the results came in. So that was perfect timing. I also hauled your honorary mention “Prompt Excursion”, which had been on a priority TBR recently. So you reminded me of that one just now 🤗

🐦 “I want some Broxonian Eel Bird. That sounds fantastic!” 🤣 But then we get salivating 🤗 appeal, and a “Barb Wire” reference 🤭 I was chortling away in my chair here 😁

I just finished this book. I love it! Lots of lyrical writing. I loved the main characters relationship. The ending had me tearing up because it was beautiful and makes you reflect.

🐿️ From here to Timbuktu via Mad Max and Chipmunks! Brilliantly woven together! 👏😆

I utterly loved this book! The language, the characters, the plot, and the ending!!!! I know the summer is early, but other novels will need to work really hard to top it. Glad to discover your channel.

I saw a glowing review elsewhere and tried this, but couldn't finish it. I had a couple of hours left on audiobook for a few months now -- but I just could not do it. Bailed and hit 'mark as finished' today. I just could not stomach any more of the painful dialogue. Every character was seemingly going through some cringey coming-of-age (or new awareness) moment - continuously as if they were on some bizarre sci-fi high school field trip to each find their own superhero origin story and/or raison d'etre. Some interesting ideas for sure and I think with some aggressive editing there might be a decent novella in there. It was kinda predictable too, and all the characters inevitably run into each other (or literally cross paths) constantly, which made the world seem very very small to me. I feel mean spewing this out in the comments section on YT - but I really wish I'd watched your review before buying it.

Why the spoilers

🦹‍♂️ I am very much drawn to a heist story - I even tag such stories up in my StoryGraph data - but insta-love/romance elements are generally incredibly tedious for me* so this one won’t be to my personal preferences. BTW, I have “Kenai” arriving tomorrow, Friday 14th, following your earlier rec. 👍 *I recently read and enjoyed Mega E. O’Keefe’s “The Blighted Stars” but the romance in that was just too much for me. So my level for it is very, very low.

Tobacco Road, God's Little Acre & short stories by Erskine Caldwell

Dark is the Sun, Philip Jose Farmer

Farmer in the Sky & Orphans of the Sky, Heinlein

The Wanderer, Fritz Leiber, Classic SF. 🛒 My favorite SF novel! Comfortable like a egg, cheese, bacon breakfast sandwich on Saturday morning.😊

What about nonfiction? Favorite true Crime of all time: Black Dahlia Avenger 111 & The Most Dangerous Animal of All.

The rat in the cage is 1984 not Brave New World. 🛒 I don't read classics like you do but 1984 is easily my favorite book. 🌵 Also try to read, Down and Out in Paris and London & Keep the Aspidistra Flying & Animal Farm. 🗯️

Aw, I think I’ll like the magic system.

🤗Magic words were spoken… “weird and mysterious ruins”!!! But not an archaeological story, awwwww, that would have been even more words up my alleyway, as that flavour of story is a fave here. 🛒 I shall add this one to a future haul. Checking his oeuvre I note that I have his book “Daros” on Kindle too.

Thanks so much for reading and reviewing! I'm glad you had fun with Jess' adventures. So neat to hear your thoughts.

I was introduced to Premee Mohamed with her "Beneath the Rising" trilogy, which was wild, and over the course of three books somehow went from a techno-dystopian action thriller to massive lovecraftian cosmic horror insanity, and I loved it. Other than that I have only read "The Siege of Burning Grass," which was entirely different, and explored ideas of nationalism and state-violence through a fantasy lens. Across the board, though, her writing was always lovely and compelling. "The Annual Migration of Clouds" has been on my TBR for a while, and your pair of reviews have bumped it up! I definitely recommend you check out her other work, too, if you get the chance.

☢️ I cannot really recall the last dystopian book I read. There is almost certainly an example, but none pop to mind as I type. So I’d have to say this is an under-read genre in my own reading. I have no clear answer why I don’t often enter that orbit 🧐 I should do a review of my shelves, I know there are some examples on there… : [goes away and does some filtering on his StoryGraph data] : Well now, here’s an interesting thing that backs up my thinking above. In my … let’s call it substantial, so I can avoid actual numbers 😜… Library I own a mere 36 books that have been tagged as “dystopian” on The StoryGraph. I was actually thinking of Patrick Tilley’s “The Amtrak Wars” but it isn’t tagged as such. Of those that I’ve read, they were all read in the 2014-2017 range except for one, “Tender is the Flesh”, which I read last year. So there you go, an actual answer to my opening thought. This comment brought to you as a stream of consciousness. Bye 🙋‍♂️

Attention: I am an idiot. This book was gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for a fair review, not a publicist. My apologies for the error.

Attention: I am an idiot. This book was gifted to me by the publisher in exchange for a fair review, not a publicist. My apologies for the error.

I have read this book and I found it a HOOT as well. I was laughing a ton and loved the AHR as well😀.

Two thumbs up for flying the flag to annoy your neighbours! 🫵😆👍 I’m very keen to hear an SPSFC post-mortem type episode. The whole thing sounds fascinating and I like a bit of making-of/behind-the-scenes to flesh things out. I had a struggle deciding what to read in this month of June, but it came down to a bunch of Readalongs (too many), a bunch of priority reads (several), and a whole bunch of series that I want to continue. Over ambitious as always 💁‍♂️

Hey, how about that, I do like 🏎️🏍️ and 🚀! I am the perfect audience, especially as I like 🤖 too! 😆

i had to replay that last part 3 times to see if I heard you right hahaha "i like this part cause its a butt" LOL you always read the most interesting things tina

You're starting in the wrong place. The 'first' 2 books are backstory for the real story which starts in book 3. Read them later.

Your opening introduction to this book made me laugh, as it reminded me of my current read, Megan E. O’Keefe’s “The Blighted Stars” which is very definitely SciFi but has waaayyyy too many romance elements in it for my simpler tastes 😅 Very much enemies-to-checking-out-his-backside if you get my general drift 😜 As in a bit in-your-face and lacking in subtlety. But that’s all some other book so way off-topic, and much less interesting that Wholefoods on The ‘Zon! 😁 AI ‘romances’… WTF?! 🤯🤯🤯 I am heading in a much more analog direction as I age - I cannot roll my eyes harder at many aspects of modern day tech, even for a lifelong SciFi boy like myself 🤓

Except for Alien3......😂😂😂. The William Gibson script is way better

We wanted to love this tina T.T HAHAH " I am drama enough" I love it

🧑‍🚀 As I opened this episode I was thinking, “uh-oh, once more onto my TBR?” But promptly struck-through that notion once you mentioned YA up-front. That’s not for me either - I’m far too old for that stuff now!

A new book boyfriend for you I see! 🤣

🤒 This one seems summed up by… “the story is………….. a lot!” 😁 While not quite in the same drama league as your death bed, whenever my Internet router decides to reboot I wait on it anxiously for the lights to reconnect, all while thinking, “that’s it, no more Intertubes for me!” 😱