TheFerventLion

joined 2 years ago

I'm constantly recommending Neuromancer. Great read.

I just finished Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which was pretty enjoyable. Overall it leaned very into the satire side of fantasy. Felt nicely inspired by Pratchett. Lots of footnotes. My only criticism is that the plot felt wobbly, without real direction. Even though, I'd recommend it!

Started What Feasts at Night, T. Kingfisher which I'm enjoying so far.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Yeah, worried it might not even after looking the syntax up. That's no better, is it?

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (2 children)

I think the

Spoilerrepeated murdering of one character's forced children

really got me. But I agree other than some pretty dark themes, it was very well written.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 week ago (4 children)

Just finally finished, Mountain of Black Glass, Tad Williams, and while I enjoyed it, it took me over two months of listening to get it done. The protagonists continued their way through the Otherland, and boy did Williams expound on the details in this book. There was a significant slump in the last third that didn't pick up until the very end. I'm hoping Sea of Silver Light, is a little quicker.

Other books I've finished lately:

  • The Library at Mount Char, Scott Hawkins - wild, weird, and one of the darker books I've read as of like. Enjoyable, but hard to recommend.
  • Audition For the Fox, Martin Cahill - somewhat unimpressed with this novella. The combination of very flowery language, and no stakes meant for a somewhat slow read for a very short book.

I'm currently reading Isabella Nagg and the Pot of Basil, Oliver Darkshire, which is very Pratchett-esc. Lots of witty footnotes, and fun village humor. Pretty light reading, but enjoyable!

I've currently got progress syncing through Calibre-Web-Automated, but I'd also tried it via KoInsights which I'm using for syncing reading stats. I'm in the process of migrating to my library to BookLore which also has a sync server.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

I've been synching progress and stats between a pair of devices! It's been great since it runs well on my haul broken kindle & my android.

There is some(maybe a bit more than some) setup time to get used to the layers of menus, but it's a pretty robust app.

I hadn't seen this analysis. Thanks for sharing!

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Oh sick. This seems to have the request feature I'm looking for. Thank you for the recco! I'll be checking it out.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 1 points 3 weeks ago (3 children)

What's Ephemera? I haven't heard of it before.

I've checked out Booklore before, but Calibre-web-automated + calibre has been working well. The feature this is missing, and the feature from Readarr I use, is a "wanted" list.

I mean, it's not an issue, but it has been fun to build out and use. We're also going to the library in town just about weekly, so the service may be overkill if you don't want it.

[–] TheFerventLion@sh.itjust.works 4 points 4 weeks ago (2 children)

Other than it being convenient to access your books from multiple machines, a big feature of a server based solution is for my wife to download what she wants from our library.

 

I've been a Readarr user with two instances(ebooks, and audiobooks) for a long time now. But more and more often, files get unlinked in the database making it less and less useful as a way to track what books I have vs "wanted," which is my main use case.

I've been trying to convert to LazyLibrarian, but boy people weren't exaggerating when they said the configuration is unclear. Unfortunately the docs do not clear it up. Interesting I'm what y'all are doing!

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