Novella, so small time commitment.

This is unlike anything I've ever read before. Yes, there's actual time travel, but that's just a framework on which to hang a story. A really wild weird wonderful story of two post-human (!!) women (!!) on opposing sides of a war who maybe sort of fall for each other, as they fight the war. BUT! The time war is nothing like historical military wars you've heard of before.

It is SO GOOD.

This book is unlike anything I've read before. It's weird, but not whimsical. Beautiful, intriguing.

Okay that was really really good

Highly recommend this book to any and all white people

⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ I am absolutely GUTTED by this book, and by the fact that there isn't more of this book.

In whose name do you act?
Not god, not king or country.
In whose name?
My own.

I love the world built in this book, and the story told. This book is just so goddamned good.

Here is a book that is DEFINITELY written for the male gaze. NOPE.

It was recommended to me by a few folx, all of them male video gamers -- as, apparently, there is a game called The Witcher based upon this series.

Not long ago, I would often say I didn't have time to re-read any book, since there were SO MANY GOOD BOOKS in the world! But here we are. I really loved this book the first time. I wonder if it'll be better now that I know how it all unfolds?

I really enjoyed this fantasy duet! I still can't tell if there will be a third in the series...

Starting this one on this blustery Michigan afternoon

This is a good series! I'm not sure if it's just a duo, or maybe there will be more coming? Maybe I'll be able to tell by the time I finish. Almost there!

A good adventure! Nice world building.

Hoopla is kind of trash as an app, but it has books that Overdrive/Libby doesn't! 🤷

Incredible woman.
Incredible life.
Damn good book.

Enjoying this! It's a good follow up to Michelle Obama, as it's so entirely different. There no way it can even try to compete!

what I put on when I want my 23yo to spend time with me

What a lovely tale! I can't wait to read the sequel

How many of you actually read the books suggested by Goodreads when you finish one?

this pic has nothing to do with the book; it's a pretty floor in the hotel I stayed at this weekend with my friends

the book was great! fascinating.

Sometimes hoopla is trash so I had to start a book on a different app so now I'm in the middle of a hundred different books it seems like

1. -15°F (feels like -35°F!)
2. 72°F
3. 65°F
4. allllllll of it!
5. 🤔🤔🤔 I tagged the book I'm reading RIGHT NOW because I am enjoying it and I couldn't pick otherwise!
#HelloThursday

Finished one, on to the next!

Once Upon a River was absolutely delightful and engaging

I'm really enjoying how much the river plays into the story, and also how much this is a story that is at least somewhat about storytelling -- which meanders like a river

Gabrielle Union reads this herself and it was interesting #PBNread2019

It was fine

I've been wanting to read this, and it fits the #PBNread2019 challenge. I really might finish the challenge before the end of January.

I'm not very good at lining up the check marks but 🤷 This fits, because the whole trilogy is being turned into a television series this year, right? #PBNread2019

Enjoyable! Now on to the third, as soon as it comes in on the library app

Am I going to finish this challenge before the end of January??? Without even meaning to? The Three-Body Problem was originally written in Chinese, by a Chinese SciFi author. #PBNread2019

Children's book I've never read! Is it cheating if it's a children's book that didn't yet exist when I was a child? Okay. January's not yet over and I'm half done with #PBNread2019

I will likely read 150+ audiobooks this year, but I'll put this one as the audiobook for #PBNread2019 because I think that it truly shines in audiobook form. It has 166 narrators! ONE HUNDRED SIXTY SIX.

This one's a retelling of The Iliad, from the perspective of Briseis. Last year, I read The Song of Achilles, which is also a retelling of that story, from the perspective of Patroclus. I enjoyed SoA better, but this one was pretty great, and is one I read in 2019, so it counts for the fifth on the #PBNread2019 list

I'll read anything Amie Kaufman writes, but now that I've read two series by her, I think I can tell the influence of the second writer #PBNread2019

Progress on #PBNread2019

This is a good one for the first item on the list

Interesting to assess how far I've come on this list this year! Let's start with this one, which was a book club pick. #PBNread2019

Okay... working on #PBNread2019... Here's an unaltered pic for anyone who wants to play along!

Delightful!

This was so good. So satisfying. Through the whole trilogy, the full cast audiobook, with occasional sound effects, really delivered!

FINALLY.

This series sucked me in so fast! And my library just never got around to buying this, the third in the trilogy, on audio. So I bought it.

Enjoyable! Did not expect supernatural elements, but it worked.

~life~

Yes I stayed up all night to read a book aimed at kids ages 9-12. It was totally worth it, too.

I finished this one a few days ago but I guess I didn't tell Litsy? As I just saw it on my "currently reading" list. What a fantastic series! What a fantastic universe! So cool to make humans the outsiders, the newcomers, the immigrant species. I loved it so much, and wish there were more books in this universe.

Current situation: front yard

About 75% through and really enjoying this one! Two stories are weaving together, ten years apart. From reviews, it seems the ending is... less than satisfactory? So I'm bracing myself for that.

I love the universe this trilogy exists in, so very much. I want to believe that it's possible for humanity to become this version of ourselves. And I'm so very sad the series is over! 😭😭😭❤️

Couldn't help comparing to Song of Achilles, and this one doesn't win the comparison. It's good but not as good as that one. This one's much more brutal, and a bit less beautiful.

I've not read any direct translations of the Iliad, but between this and Song of Achilles, it's easy to find the details that came directly from the Iliad, and that was somewhat fun.

Okay that's better

Okay I'm out. A bit too much cisheteronormative male perspective. Male gaze, women as objects/conquests, etc. Bye!

"This is a story about a wise man named Milo."

I already like it!

I didn't expect to like this as much as I did! The language is absolutely breathtakingly beautiful.