Book Recs Please

Book Recs Please

What are some novels we’ve liked, lately? I’ll go first: 

The Three Body Problem, by Liu Cixin; English translation by Ken Liu. Any description would be spoilery so I’ll just say some of the reasons I love it. It has a brilliant, interesting plot. It has characters who are complex and interesting. Like a lot of CDrama, characters’ morality is the result of all the decisions of a lifetime, not some baseline in their soul. And the translation is lovely.

The Golem and the Jinni, by Helene Wecker. A literal Golem and a literal Jinni immigrate to New York City in the very early 20th century, and have adventures that are half slice-of-urban-living and half evil-wizard-is-after-us. 

Ancillary Justice, by Ann Leckie. A ship’s AI with a lot of personality and a few thousand  human bodies that function like walking computer terminals gets reduced to a single human body, with the memories and personality of a ship. A very angry ship, with strong attachments to some humans. One of these humans, Seivarden, is a glorious trainwreck of a person; loathable and loveable in equal measure.  

Mount Hood, Oregon by Jim and Nina Pollock

Does Maomao x Laios Make no sense what so ever. Yes.

Is it quickly becoming my favorite crack crossover ship that needs more content. Also Yes.

I need someone. Anyone to see what I am cooking. Even as a friendship I am convinced these two would get along in a weird way. I want to watch them interact and study them in a terrarium.

Look me in the eye and tell me that Laios wouldn’t also try poisons with Maomao if they were monster related. Test out antidotes and how those antidotes can be cooked into food. They’d be such Mad Scientist/chefs. I want them to be autistic together and both infodump about their interests while the other listens patiently.

Laios just eating anything Maomao feeds him without question. And Maomao studying the effects to see if a monster heavy diet affects the way her medicines/poisons are metabolized.

Maomao being interest in plant based monsters and dungeon plants to see if they have any medicinal qualities.

Laios learning from Maomao how she works her medicine into teas and dishes and sweets.

Laios thinking her knowledge is so fascinating because she’s actively trying to find healing away from healing magics which is easier.

Maomao thinking Laios is kinda cool for being the very first person to figure out that living armor is a mollusk colony.

Also both of them not really judging each other. Yes It’s weird how passionate Laios gets about monster foods however Maomao did rant to him for like an hour on the delight of slowly dying to foxglove poisoning. She has no right to talk. Yes Laios is deeply concerned about Maomao hurting herself but he also had Kraken parasites from eating raw its meat raw so like. What could he say.

I need someone to hear me and please understand the vision.

i really like ryoko kui's dedication to making this elf chick smoke weed in every modern clothing art she appears in

I'm sorry, Natsuyuu tumblr.