Welcome to Litsy!

More than anything this felt like a lower-stakes gender-swapped Ender‘s Game, but I mean that as a compliment.

Melpomene Murray is coming of age on one of the first asteroid colonies, a necessity for the human race as Earth‘s systems crumble. Teen drama blends with some great sci-fi as Melpomene uncovers the complex layers of social engineering & manipulation that have gone into raising her generation, the 1st born in space.

Reading on the back deck on the last night of summer vacation.

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Vol. 4 of this incarnation of the League is notable for:

1.) continuing to feature interesting & involving conversations between our heroes

2.) overloading me with nostalgia for the late ‘90s by featuring two characters from that era.

Prometheus made his villainous debut in the very first issue of JLA I bought back in 1998 & Aztek was a member of the team during that same era. Both characters were Grant Morrison creations.

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One more week of Summer Break to go, so I‘m closing it out with this science fiction novel set on a hollowed-out asteroid space colony in the far distant future of 2025.

Looking back through Litsy, I noticed my last 2 summers have ended on clunkers so I hope this rocks.

If nothing else this book smells of musty used book stores and joy.

#Starting #SummerOfShort3

Nanny Ogg and Granny Weatherwax, Mother and Crone, are in need of a Maiden to round out their archetype but their best option, Agnes Nitt, is busy getting involved in a murder mystery at the Ankh-Morpork opera house.

What follows is Sir Terry‘s remix of The Phantom of the Opera (more Lloyd Webber than Leroux) & it is a whole lot of fun - although Agnes & her story were quite complicated & I‘m still processing my feelings there.

Discworld book 18

This perfect book covers the life of David Bowie from the fight over a girl in 1962 that permanently dilated his left pupil to the last concert of Ziggy Stardust & the Spiders from Mars in 1973*, accompanied by truly astounding imagery by Mike Allred and colored by Laura Allred.

Hyperbole is the only logical reaction to this phantasmagoric biography. If you have ANY interest in Bowie, get your hands on this thing.

All the love. All the stars.

“...when you have ruled out the impossible, what is left, however improbable, ain‘t worth hanging around on a cold night wonderin‘ about when you could be getting on the outside of a big drink.” - Corporal “Nobby” Nobbs (pictured) on the Art of Deduction

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And just dig who wrote the introduction! #GaimanGang #SummerOfShort3

#Starting this gift my brother gave me a few months ago for my birthday. The card said “Ground Control to Major Tobey” which was a nice touch.

Just... just look at it!

@Bookwomble is this a part of your collection?

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Hey! The final volume actually used text & images in a complimentary fashion to tell an adequate story! Alas, the same can not be said of the prior 2 volumes.

Even for a hardcore Sanderson fan or Cosmere completist, this trilogy just feels sooo skippable.

Also Dynamite, the publisher, refused to release a statement of support for Black Lives Matter & commissions work from a group of artists that is anti-diversity in comics. Screw those ass hats.