Hallo, shop! Yesterday I didn't much care for 'The Cartographers', but today you can read about why I LOVED Starling House, by Alix E Harrow, on Nerds of a Feather!

Look, just do what the nice sentient house wants, all right?

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/07/review-starling-house-by-alix-e-harrow.html

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Hello, bookfriends! Up on Nerds of a Feather today I share my thoughts about The Cartographers, by Peng Shepherd, which could have been a lot better than it was, alas. (Fanciers of #FountainPens may well enjoy the footnote.)

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/07/review-cartographers-by-peng-shepherd.html

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Hi, Masto-friends! I've mentioned a few times (I think) how much I enjoyed Tales of the Ketty Jay, by Chris Wooding. You can read my thoughts in more depth here on Nerds of A Feather:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/07/review-tales-of-ketty-jay-by-chris.html

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Over at Nerds of a Feather, @carturo222 lets it be known that he did not care for 'Transformers: Rise of the Beasts'.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/06/the-transformers-franchise-hasnt.html

and because I care about the well-roundedness of your education, you can also bone up on your film theory through @lindsayellis 's brilliant series covering Film Studies 101 through the lens of Transformers:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PRXI__Wixas&list=PLJGOq3JclTH8J73o2Z4VMaSYZDNG3xeZ7

(Preview of content: Michael Bay does, technically, meet the definition of auteur.)

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Hello, Mastodon! I've got a review up on Nerds of a Feather, in which I reflect upon the balance of vibes, world-building, ontogeny, and characterization in Alex Pheby's 'Mordew'.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/06/microreview-mordew-by-alex-pheby.html

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I am a finalist for the #Ignyte Critics Award!!!

Together with Aigner Loren Wilson @cypayseur Christina Orlando & #NerdsOfAFeather !! Congrats everyone!!

I am both greatly honored and overjoyed about this!

Check out the Twitter thread from L.D. Lewis with all the categories, there's so much great stuff on the list! Audience voting is at the end -

https://twitter.com/Ellethevillain/status/1661374109945585665

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Over at Nerds of a Feather, @carturo222 was quite disappointed by B. L. Blanchard's 'Mother,' which he considers a sequel that fails to live up to the quality of its predecessor.

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/05/review-mother-by-b-l-blanchard.html

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Do you want to just switch off your brain and watch some visually interesting and entirely acceptable exchanges of punches? Read @carturo222 's faint praise over at Nerds of a Feather to see if Knights of the Zodiac might fill that punch-shaped void in your life.

(Note the film features Sean Bean. Ever alert to the possibility of spoilers, Arturo does not reveal whether Sean Bean survives this role, but my Bayesian prior is low.)

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/05/knights-of-zodiac-is-exactly-acceptable.html

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Looking for a shortish read about grisly vengeance and mermaids? @chloroform_tea thinks you might find it in Cassandra Khaw's novella 'The Salt Grows Heavy'. Read all about it on Nerds of a Feather here:

http://www.nerds-feather.com/2023/05/review-salt-grows-heavy-by-cassandra.html

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