𝔹𝕒𝕞𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕝𝕒 🌵💬🐴 #zinesNo sé separar los libros de los cómics así que este es el resultado:
Rut y Donna, los extremos. Me representa bastante bien este combo. #Books2025 #Lecturas2025
Aunque no hay estadísticas sobre esto, sí que he conseguido separar los libros que me he leído del pilón de cómics. Mi objetivo 2025 se cumplió: 5 libros. Personajes muy muy chungos. Villanas magníficas. Narradores cero fiables. Sangre, muertes, oscuridad... muy 2025. #Lecturas2025 #Books2025
JulesThe novel shied away from this being a culture with slavery in my opinion, and didn't explore the differences to contemporary racism. That Selah, whose family owned Tair as a slave, and Tair are lovers wasn't dealt in a satisfactory way for me.
And there's a huge plot twist that I both suspected was coming and didn't find that interesting. So, a mixed bag and I'm not sure I'll read the sequel. But it is a nice read of you like ancient Rome!
(4/n, n=4)
The murder mystery that starts the story, Selah's additional quest, and the life of members of a revolutionary cell also worked well for me.
The characters didn't quite, unfortunately. While it's nice that all the romances are queer and there's nonbinary representation, there were just *too many* relationships for me. These parts felt very Young Adult to me, and not in a good way.
(3/n)
They're Theo, nonbinary revolutionary; patrician Selah, just ascended to chief archivist and hunting for a strange device entrusted to her; Arran, her half-brother with ill-defined social status; Tair, Selah's former lover; and policeman Darius, patrician in disgrace.
Through their eyes, we get to see their society from different points of view, and these parts of the worldbuilding are gorgeous: a rich culture, plausibly descended from Rome but also its own thing.
(2/n)
So, Sophie Burnham's "Sargassa". Marketed as "A Rome that never fell", it's clear from the start that this isn't, strictly does it, true. Burnham's Roman society is there, yes, complete with consuls and a senate, slaves and patricians and plebeians, but it has gone through an undefined period of chaos and data loss and only recently bounced back. It has also conquered North America, and this province is where we get to meet our characters.
(1/n)
JeffOver the holidays I wrote and published a new blog post about the books that I've read during 2025 for enjoyment on my freshly restarted, ultra-sporadically updated, very meager, old-fashioned, hand-crafted artisan blog:
2025 Reading Recap: https://www.jeffpickell.com/blog/20251230
#books2025 #bookstodon #books #bookblogger #reading #novels #sff #scifi #sciencefiction #fantasy #cozyfantasy #dystopian #fiction
BelghastGood Morning Folks! Starting a bit of a 2025 in Review series on my blog, as this morning I talked about some of the important books that I read from last year.
Paul CowdellHoping I've done the wretched profile settings appropriately for the FB post to be visible...
A wonderful friend, Steve Davies, used to do a year-in-books list, which I took up as it looked like fun. He died in an accident that same year, so I never did get to share my reading with him. I still keep the list, and every year I still think of my cheese-eating wastrel friend and his exuberant reading tastes.
Mme ZabetI read 62 books last year. You can tell 2025 was terrible by how many YA (and even middlegrade!) books I read.
Titles in alt text, asterisks on my favorites. (Though Rivers of London series are all my favorites, I just didn't have enough room to asterisk all of them -- it is LONG, took up the entire character count. You are forewarned!)
#2025 #Bookstadon #2025Books #Books2025
