Mort
Avid reader, home cook and amateur photographer. Kind of a serial hobbyist so can’t list everything.
Joined Apr 2022
Ancillary Justice (Imperial Radch #1) by Ann Leckie
2/5 stars. Didn’t live up to its potential or it’s hype. I love space operas with AI characters, but this one disappointed me. Screenshot of my full review is in the attached image.
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Ship of Magic (The Liveship Traders #1) by Robin Hobb
5/5 Stars. I read this almost a year ago I just realized I never wrote a review. I think it’s because I immediately read the next book in the series. I couldn’t put it down, and I still wish there was more of it to read.
This is adult fantasy fiction but I wouldn’t hesitate to let young adults read it. It has great character development, interesting magic, and talking ships!
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Kindred by Octavia E. Butler
4/5 Stars.
Rufus never learned anything and never improved as a person. He literally had the future laid out before him and continued to behave just as his father did. I don’t think I’ve ever hated a fictional character so much.
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The Library of the Unwritten (Hell’s Library #1) by A.J. Hackwith
4/5 stars. Really fun read. If you like the Thursday Next books by Jasper Fford then I think you enjoy this one too.
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Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy
Pretty interesting story and I liked the Scottish setting. I didn’t write a review so the synopsis is in the attached image.
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The Priority of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon
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It’s getting close to the end of the year and I’ve read a lot of books.
I’m going to post a few of my reviews and if there is interest I’ll keep going.
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I don’t think it’s here for the sunflower seeds 😮
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Maybe I'm wrong about this one after all.
It seems "Jack of all trades" may have been the stand alone original with no negative connotation.
Several of my #wrongquotes are pretty commonly known. This one might surprise a few of you.
The phrase “you’ve got another thing coming” is wrong probably from being often misheard. It’s used to convey “you’re going to get what you deserve.”
Originally it was “You’ve got another think coming.” Meaning “If you think that’s the correct phrase, you have another think coming.”
This one is almost always used incompletely to reinforce the idea of power over kindness.
"It is better to be feared than loved, if you cannot be both."
When you leave off the second part it loses the message that’s it’s best to be both.
Here is another one that just sounds like an oxymoron the way it’s commonly misused.
“You can’t have your cake and eat it too.”
Makes a lot more sense if said as it was intended:
“You can’t eat the cake and then still have it too.”
When you hear someone say “The Early Bird Gets The Worm” their message is clearly that it’s best to be first.
The original saying is actually “ The Early Bird Gets The Worm, ..but the second mouse gets the cheese.”
The message of the latter is to learn from the mistakes of others rather than trying to be first.
“The proof is in the pudding.”
Commonly used but makes no sense without context. They actually saying is:
“The proof of the pudding is in the eating.”
Meaning you have to try something to know it’s value.
Jack of all trades, master of none.
Incomplete and conveys the opposite message as the full saying:
Jack of all trades, master of none ..though often times better than a master of one.
Mort
Avid reader, home cook and amateur photographer. Kind of a serial hobbyist so can’t list everything.
Joined Apr 2022