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RamsFan1963
Bombs Away: The Hot War | Harry Turtledove
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54/100 Alternate history has always been my favorite subgenre of science fiction, and few writers do it better than Turtledove. What if Truman used the atomic bomb to end the war in Korea? The results are horrific, and this is only the first book of the trilogy. Moscow, Kiev, Leningrad, Portland, Seattle and Los Angles gone up in atomic mushrooms. I did find it a little unrealistic that that much radiation from this destruction wasn't killing ⬇️

RamsFan1963 more people, but the exact tonnage of these bombs are never mentioned, but I assume they're as powerful as the bombs used on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. I enjoy the rotating povs, so the war is seen from every angle, how both soldiers and civilians are affected. 4 ⭐ #Read2025 #SeriesLove2025 6h
Eggbeater Love Harry Turtledove! 6h
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RamsFan1963
Bombs Away: The Hot War | Harry Turtledove
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Somewhere to the south and east lay Hungnam, the North Korean port on the Sea of Japan.

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

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majkia
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This is one of the strangest SFF books I've read in many a moon. I'm not sure what I think of it. It morphs about halfway through from a fairly straight up alt history to a sort of SFF/Sci Fi mix.

I'm glad I read it and I'll be thinking about it for awhile.

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Christinak
Cahokia Jazz | Francis Spufford
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This took me a while to get into. Now that I‘m about a quarter of the way in I‘m getting hooked.

#LiteraryLadiesBookClub

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squirrelbrain
Cahokia Jazz | Francis Spufford
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I *nearly* bailed on this ‘hardboiled detective‘ novel from the #ToBlonglist but persevered and, about 30% in, found myself caring for one of the MCs which turned the book around.

It could also be called speculative fiction as it‘s set in an alternative 1920s USA, where First Nations people live side by side with Blacks and whites, but still with the KKK on the rise and a ritualistic murder on a rooftop setting the whole town on edge.

rockpools Wow! There‘s a LOT going on there! 5mo
Megabooks I don't even remember registering that this was on the longlist! 5mo
BarbaraBB Neither did I @Megabooks but it does sound d tempting! 5mo
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squirrelbrain Now you made me go double-check @Megabooks @BarbaraBB in case I had it wrong! 🤪 5mo
squirrelbrain Yes, there was a lot @rockpools - I tried it on audio first but it was all too much. Particularly as the three races had similar sounding names - takouma, takata and taklousa. 🤔 5mo
Larkken This one looked interesting to me! Good to know about the audiobook 5mo
squirrelbrain It may just have been me @Larkken - I listen on my commute and it‘s very easy to drift off, thinking about work, if a book doesn‘t grab me straight away. 🤷‍♀️ 5mo
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DogMomIrene
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#OctoberWrapUp #MonthlyReads

I loved the top 6 books. The Fated Sky was probably my favorite followed closely by Legends & Lattes.

The bottom four prepper books were awful. Bought these to read for hurricane season. They were so general and focused on apocalypse type events. Not helpful for the person Prepping for Tuesday, not Doomsday.

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DogMomIrene
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100% pick. Since the sequel takes place mostly in space, there‘s less focus on events from the 1950s and 60s, but the way the characters relate to one another is the reminder. I especially liked seeing how the relationship between Elma and Parker developed. Now I need to buy this series because my library doesn‘t own #3 The Relentless Moon and book #4 comes out in 2025👩🏻‍🚀🚀

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DogMomIrene
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Dr. Elma York takes Miltown for her anxiety. I freaking love her character. Incredibly relatable even though she‘s a math savant who started college as a kid. These were the final sentences of Mary Robinette Kowal‘s author note🧡

Jari-chan 💖💖💖 7mo
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DogMomIrene
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Started a reading spree this afternoon with the astronauts blasting off to Mars and not everything is going smoothly.

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DogMomIrene
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Loving book #2 in The Lady Astronaut series. Still prepping for the first Mars expedition. The alternate history angle has really sucked me in.