a vintage year for scoundrels

Cryoburn - Lois McMaster Bujold
The Lost Steerswoman - Rosemary Kirstein
The Language of Power - Rosemary Kirstein
The Third Nero - Lindsey Davis
The Underwater Ballroom Society ed Stephanie Burgis and Tiffany Trent
La Belle Sauvage - Philip Pullman
Brit(ish) - Afua Hirsch
When I Hit You: Or, Portrait of the Writer as a Young Wife - Meena Kandasamy
Patsy Walker aka Hellcat: Hooked on a Feline
Supergirl: Reign of the Cyborg Supermen
Star Trek: Waypoint vol 1

La Belle Sauvage
This gets its own cut, because I want to talk about something in the last 20% of the book, and I can't be bothered to find the code for the spoiler bars. ( not actually that spoilery, I don't think? ) So overall I'm not sure what I thought of it - some of it I definitely loved, other stuff not so much.

( Cryoburn (three stars), The Underwater Ballroom Society (four stars), Star Trek: Waypoint vol 1 (four stars), Patsy Walker aka Hellcat: Hooked on a Feline (four stars), )

Didn't finish: ( The Golden Legend - Nadeem Aslam )

All Systems Red - Martha Wells
The Bone Readers - Jacob Ross
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child - JK Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany
A Spy Among Friends: Kim Philby and the Great Betrayal - Ben MacIntyre
Assassin's Fate - Robin Hobb
Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: Enigma Tales - Una McCormack
Station Eleven - Emily St. John Mandel
The World of Arthur Ransome - Christina Hardyment
Swallowdale - Arthur Ransome
Black Panther: Worlds of Wakanda
The Voyage of the Basilisk - Marie Brennan
Snowspelled - Stephanie Burgis

( All Systems Red (five stars), Assassin's Fate (five stars), Station Eleven (five stars), Black Panther: Worlds of Wakanda (three stars), Snowspelled (four stars) )

Midwinterblood - Marcus Sedgwick
*JLA: Year One
*Earthward: Book One
Doctor Who: The Tomorrow Windows - Jonathan Morris
*Heralds
Servant of the Empire - Raymond E. Feist and Janny Wurts
Young Allies
*Futuredaze: An Anthology of YA Science Fiction ed. Erin Underwood and Hannah Strom-Martin
*A Most Improper Magick - Stephanie Burgis
*Doctor Who: A History of the Universe in 100 Objects - James Goss and Steve Tribe
*Batman/Superman/Wonder Woman: Trinity
Wonder Woman: Gods and Mortals
Wonder Woman: Challenge of the Gods
*Time and Relative Dissertations in Space ed. David Butler
*Batwing: In the Shadow of the Ancients
Wonder Woman: Beauty and the Beasts

Didn't finish: Always Coming Home - Ursula Le Guin. Giving up on this one was something of a wrench: I really did respect what it was trying to do, (re)creating a future post-crash society through anthropological studies. Plus it's URSULA LE GUIN, it's supposed to be a classic (I think), and also I'd already sunk a week's worth of reading time into it before I hit breaking point. But I wasn't really enjoying reading it - the form made me feel so disconnected from the content - and all the gender, sex and sexuality stuff was so disappointingly normative, and then I hit the Moon Dance section which was SO SKEEVY wrt sex and gender and I just couldn't any more. (I still have it out from the library, if anyone feels like convincing me it's worth finishing.)

( feelings about the stuff marked with asterisks )

I am slightly surprised that I have nothing to say about all the Wonder Woman I've read, but reaction-wise I think I am still stuck on DIANAAAAAAAA. :D