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Cathy L
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Thoughts on my first time listening to an audiobook (Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie)
1/ My choice of narrator was a BIG DEAL. I listened to SO many samples before choosing a book. Accent wasn’t right. Tone wasn’t right. Though once I started listening, I got used to them fairly quickly.
December 17, 2025 at 7:21 PM
I've never listened to audiobooks, but having an eye op next week, might be blurry for a day, or as much as a week. Have spent SO much time trying to decide on audiobooks to start with from Spotify & library. Something I know & love already? Something new? Ideas? Hard to even imagine not reading 🪐📚💙
December 11, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Finished Empire of the Dawn by Jay Kristoff, great finish to an excellent trilogy. Such a dramatic and emotional story! Great characters, fun dialogue. I can see why the ending is divisive, I loved it but it does raise a whole lot more questions. Also loved the illustrations, very cool. 🪐📚💙
December 10, 2025 at 9:07 PM
Loved the first of these books but got a bit lost with pacing and too many characters in the sequels, not that a multitude of characters usually bothers me? Really liked the ending though, especially the Davian origin story which I really wasn't expecting. Really good main characters. 🪐📚💙
Enjoying that first book so much I think I'm going to take my current library books back & pick up the next 2 in the Licanius series! They're confusing but I'm sure it'll all make sense eventually... 💙🐉🪐📚
December 3, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Time to update intro post:
📚 Current read: The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington
✍️ Fave authors: Robin Hobb & Katharine Kerr
📺 Umbrella Academy, Orphan Black, Sense8, Stranger Things - always looking for new stuff to watch!
🥾 Like hiking
✈️ Love travel
学习中文 learning Chinese
🇳🇿 New Zealander
December 1, 2025 at 7:31 PM
Almost finished An Echo of what was lost but feeling daunted by the 4 other library books & a library hold that I have right now.... They're all good books, just feels wrong to take them back early!! So that's my weekend planned 💙📚
Enjoying that first book so much I think I'm going to take my current library books back & pick up the next 2 in the Licanius series! They're confusing but I'm sure it'll all make sense eventually... 💙🐉🪐📚
November 28, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Enjoying that first book so much I think I'm going to take my current library books back & pick up the next 2 in the Licanius series! They're confusing but I'm sure it'll all make sense eventually... 💙🐉🪐📚
November 23, 2025 at 6:50 PM
Hmmm not sure about this one. Guess it just seemed a bit too light after other recent reads? The story did pick up but just didn't care enough about the characters so don't think I'll carry on with the sequel. 💙🪐🐉📚
November 21, 2025 at 6:42 PM
The language is amazing, the repartee is fun in a really weird way, the story is totally confusing but so glad I finally got to reading this! My brain may need a break before reading Nona though. Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir.
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November 19, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Another recent read: Different from the TV series but still looks at what the world would do if everyone saw 2 minutes of their future. I liked the premise and there were some fun quotes & ideas of what the future may hold. Pacing was a bit odd and I'm not sold on the ending. Enjoyed it.
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November 17, 2025 at 6:37 PM
More recent reads: Katharine Kerr's Polar City series is a fun scifi/fantasy/murder mystery mashup with some baseball in there as well - particularly like the Nunks/Mulligan banter. Not sure why Kerr's scifi books fly under the radar, they really shouldn't! Anyone else read these?
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November 16, 2025 at 6:23 PM
Robin Hobb's Realm of the Elderlings has completely taken over my last few months reading. What a ride, just loved it and now it's my favourite series ever ❤️. A little annoyed to rush thru the finish before getting on a plane but I'm sure I will reread one day. Best characters ever.
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November 15, 2025 at 6:28 PM
The Tawny Man trilogy, best Realm of the Elderlings books so far! Loving Robin Hobb. Some say they are bleak & depressing. And yes, there is pain, war & misery. Major characters die & there are painful partings. BUT also warm loving relationships, triumph over adversity, & great character growth🐉🪐📚💙
October 2, 2025 at 1:50 AM
“List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep“
1. Fantasy books 🪐📚💙
2. Sailing round the world in your own boat ⛵
3. Yep, a work thing. But it wouldn't be a fun 3 hours. 🏗️
🤔 “List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep“

1️⃣ Growing 🌶️ because spice is fun 🥵😂

2️⃣ A work thing that I occasionally talk about for waaay more than just 3h when training folks, which is good fun! 🤓

3️⃣ A work thing absolutely nobody else gives a 💩 about but I built over many years 🤪
List 3 things you can talk about for 3 hours with no prep

1. The history of science fiction
2. Star Wars, specifically Andor
3. The Expanse
September 26, 2025 at 7:47 PM
Haven't posted for a month as I have been so involved with reading these Realm of the Elderlings books. They are SO good, I'm definitely now a Robin Hobb fan. Just started Fool's Fate, but will have to take a short break as my house is full of old friends this weekend. 📚🪐💙
Book emotions:
📚 Horror at realising the library doesn't have the next books in the series I'm reading
📚 Delight at finding the entire next 2 trilogies in a secondhand book store
📚 Impatience to finish my library books so I can get to these!
Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders &Tawny Man trilogies.
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September 25, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Book emotions:
📚 Horror at realising the library doesn't have the next books in the series I'm reading
📚 Delight at finding the entire next 2 trilogies in a secondhand book store
📚 Impatience to finish my library books so I can get to these!
Robin Hobb's Liveship Traders &Tawny Man trilogies.
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August 20, 2025 at 2:57 AM
Just finished this amazing trilogy, and I LOVED it! Not sure why it's taken me so long to discover Robin Hobb. Will be taking a short break to read my library holds that just came in, then I'll be back to the Realm of the Elderlings! 📚🪐💙
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August 19, 2025 at 4:00 AM
My first foray into The Realm of the Elderings by Robin Hobb. Excellent start, SO tempted to keep reading but I really do need to get some sleep tonight!
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August 7, 2025 at 10:12 AM
Bookish checkpoint!
📚 Last book read: All Systems Red, Martha Wells
📚 Your current read: A Drop of Corruption, Robert Jackson Bennett
📚 Last book added to TBR: Woodworking, Emily St James
📚 Next read: Two Twisted Crowns, Rachel Gillig
Note to self: add the next Murderbot book
Love reading 📚
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July 23, 2025 at 7:56 PM
While reading Under the Dome recently (excellent if scary book) I was reminded of the Gone books by Michael Grant. Both show a town isolated from the world where rules disappear, but in Gone the adults vanish. Not sure how far into the series I'll get, good story but maybe a bit young.
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July 11, 2025 at 8:08 PM
A holiday weekend is the perfect time to check out the local used book shop, here's my haul today. Haven't read Katherine Kurtz or Sheri Tepper before.
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June 20, 2025 at 9:07 PM
"Perfect for fans of Babel and Fourth Wing". Ummm, what? Those books really don't have a lot in common, other than the "academic setting". Anyway, anyone know if this is any good? I'm more of a fan of Babel than Fourth Wing.
A Language of Dragons by SF Williamson 💙🪐📚
June 19, 2025 at 8:05 PM
This is one seriously huge book! 💙🪐📚
June 14, 2025 at 8:55 PM
Bookish checkpoint!
📚 Last book read: The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
📚 Your current read: Ready Player One, Ernest Cline
📚Last book added to TBR: Bury our Bones in Midnight Soil, VE Schwab
📚 Next read: When the Moon hits your eye, Scalzi? Under the Dome, Stephen King? We'll see...
#BookSky 🪐📚💙
June 12, 2025 at 9:06 PM
Loved this! Seven contenders compete for the throne, one is murdered. The story follows an unlikely contender investigating the murder and uncovering secrets & treachery past & present. Excellent characters, fun banter, ridiculous situations, lots of heart.
The Raven Scholar, Antonia Hodgson
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June 10, 2025 at 3:23 AM