“You're arresting *Unmentionables*?“
“No uniform. No badge. Carrying weapons. Let's have a bit of law around here, shall we?“ said Vimes. “Snouty, where's that cocoa?“
“We'll get into trouble!“ Knock shouted.
Vimes let Knock wait until he'd lit a cigar. “We're in trouble anyway, Winsborough,' he said, shaking out the match. “It's just a case of deciding what kind we want.“
pickA magical mishap throws Vimes & the serial killer he‘s chasing back in time to the eve of revolution. He‘ll have to protect his younger self, hunt down this killer, & get himself home.
The arc of growth Vimes has is just astounding. Getting thrown back to rampant corruption, police brutality, people getting kidnapped off the streets to be tortured, & yet seeing all this darkness & saying “No, this stops now.” How do we get a Sam please?🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗
When you have loads of apples and a handful of frozen berries, you have to make at least a small crumble. Right?
Pairing it with #OokBOokClub read
KEY LIME SKY‘s prologue was so purple I felt sure my last Auld Lang Spine title of 2025 was gonna be a quick-bail. Thankfully, the rest of the book was WAY less florid, and spectacularly entertaining into the bargain. I loved it.
I barrelled through to the end while I cleaned, put out some Hallowe‘en decorations, and preserved my Candy Crush streak. #audiodecorating
On this very first day of October the #birthdayfairies are kicking off the celebrations for the month with our wonderful @LoverOfLearning ! We‘re sending along lots of #birthdaylove and best wishes for a simply marvelous day. ☀️
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU!
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so-soThis latest novel from Premee Mohamed just won the Aurora award for best Canadian sci-fi/fantasy novel. It's an interesting exploration of war, violence and pacifism, but I found it quite slow going.
#gottacatchemall (Lillipup: beige coloured cover) @PuddleJumper
I got a day with Casey! Hurray!
He‘s currently helping me tackle the last story in this Korean collection about a skyscraper city. Alas, it‘s the sort of ideas-over-people SF I struggle to click with, so I ain‘t as wowed as the folks who recced it to me. There‘s enough meat here that I‘ll finish it, at least, but it won‘t make my list of stellar short fiction recs.
so-soThis was an interesting and fresh take on a time travel story, as well as being very focused on themes of rioting, corrupt governments, and revolution. It is on the heavier side in terms of topics, and there is a lot of death in this book. I enjoyed some aspects of it, but I cannot say I “enjoyed“ reading through a literal revolution, and brutality etc.
Ooh two choices this time in #BookBracket2025, both were tough!! In the end, I went with Time's Agent as the winner twice. It's a super unique queer science fiction novel about "pocket worlds," aka small alternative universes, wherein time is either slowed down or sped up. It's a beautiful and smart meditation on motherhood, climate collapse, grief, capitalism, colonization, and the nature of time itself. And a great ending!
