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Cozy fantasy and Sci-fi are my self care reads. I love a good magic system and dragons are always welcome. I like my Sci-fi LGBTQ+ positive. YA and Romance fill a sweet spot. And I never underestimate good children's fiction! (Learn more about this Cannonballer: Dome’Loki's Quick Questions interview.)

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A calico cat sitting upright next to a the book, "Record of a Spaceborn Few" by Becky Chambers.

“If trying something new was valid, then keeping something old was, too…. Life meant death, always. But by the same token, death meant life.”

Record of a Spaceborn Few by Becky Chambers

June 12, 2022 by Dome'Loki 3 Comments

Becky Chambers continues to keep me in awe of her writing.  Record of a Spaceborn Few is the third book in the “Wayfarer Series”.  It tangentially ties into the first book as one of the main characters, Tessa Santoso, is sister to Captain Ashby Santoso, of the spaceship Wayfarer, in A Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet.  This book is centered on The Exodus Fleet, the last humans to leave Earth when the environment collapsed hundreds of years ago.  They wandered for generations until […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: Becky Chambers, cbr14, Dome'Loki, lesbian character, LGBTQ, space, Wayfarer series

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:19 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: Becky Chambers, cbr14, Dome'Loki, lesbian character, LGBTQ, space, Wayfarer series ·
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A cell phone showing an audiobook of "Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir" by Wil Wheaton surrounded by board games.

Should be listened to in audio format if at all possible

Still Just a Geek: An Annotated Memoir by Wil Wheaton

June 10, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

I have wanted to listen to an audiobook narrated by Wil Wheaton (of “Stand By Me” and Star Trek fame) for a while and when his annotated memoir Still Just a Geek came out it seemed like a good one to try.  Fellow Cannonballers, I did not expect the emotional journey I was about to take when starting this book.  In the opening, Wheaton says that he is going to try his best to make it seem as though he is sitting down having a conversation […]

Filed Under: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir Tagged With: #writing, abuse, acting, Anxiety, cbr14, child acting, Depression, Dome'Loki, Star Trek, wil wheaton

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:18 · Genres: Audiobooks, Biography/Memoir · Tags: #writing, abuse, acting, Anxiety, cbr14, child acting, Depression, Dome'Loki, Star Trek, wil wheaton ·
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Calico cat curled up sleeping in front of the book, "The Three-Body Problem" by Cixin Liu.

Most unique ‘First Contact’ sci-fi I have ever read

The Three-Body Problem by Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator)

May 30, 2022 by Dome'Loki 1 Comment

It was impossible to expect a moral awakening from humankind itself, just like it was impossible to expect humans to lift off the earth by pulling up on their own hair.  To achieve moral awakening required a force outside the human race.  This thought determined the entire direction of Ye’s life. The Three-Body Problem has been on my TBR list for years.  It was on many best of lists when published in English and my husband loved it.  Unfortunately, the first time I tried to […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, Chinese author, cixin liu, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator), Dome'Loki, translated, translated by Ken Liu

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:17 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14, Chinese author, cixin liu, Cixin Liu, Ken Liu (translator), Dome'Loki, translated, translated by Ken Liu ·
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The book "Last Night at the Telegraph Club" by Malinda Lo in front of two blooming lilies.

Beautiful story of sexual identity awakening and first love

Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo

May 11, 2022 by Dome'Loki 4 Comments

And then she asked the question that had taken root in her, that was even now unfurling its leaves and demanding to be shown the sun: “Have you ever heard of such a thing?” Last Night at the Telegraph Club is a beautiful glimpse into a moment in time of a sexual identity awareness and first love, amidst the Red Scare of McCarthyism in 1950’s San Francisco.  Sexual feelings awaken for the first time within Lily Hu but everything she has been taught says it […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: CannonBookClub, cannonbookclub2022, cbr14, Chinese American, Chinese American author, Dome'Loki, historical fiction, lesbian, LGBTQ, Malinda Lo

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:16 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: CannonBookClub, cannonbookclub2022, cbr14, Chinese American, Chinese American author, Dome'Loki, historical fiction, lesbian, LGBTQ, Malinda Lo ·
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The book, "Blood of the Chosen" by Django Wexler lying in front of a red, blooming amaryllis flower.

“Sure, why not take your mortally wounded lover and shove her into an ancient machine of uncertain effectiveness? What could go wrong?”

Blood of the Chosen: Burningblade & Silvereye Book Two by Django Wexler

May 2, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

Wexler continues writing excellent sci-fantasy.  I love the melding of energy swords and healing magics.  A highly, technically advanced civilization that has fallen.  Magic is held in the hands of a few, tech is tightly controlled and scrounged from remnants of the previous age.  Life is very different depending on where you live, within the Republic, in the splinter kingdoms, or outside on the fringes. Blood of the Chosen picks up immediately after the events of  Ashes of the Sun.  A potentially humanity ending calamity […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: cbr14, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, LGBTQ, lgbtq characters, sci-fantasy

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:15 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: cbr14, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, LGBTQ, lgbtq characters, sci-fantasy ·
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The book, "Ashes of the Sun" by Django Wexler lying on top of a field of green clover.

Fallen highly advanced civilization, tech magic vs. bio magic, and two siblings on opposite sides of the divide.

Ashes of the Sun: Burningblade & Silvereye Book One by Django Wexler

April 26, 2022 by Dome'Loki Leave a Comment

More than 400 years ago there were two powerful entities, the Chosen and those who are now called ghouls.  The Chosen wielded a magical power called deiat.  With deiat they powered technological marvels like sky fortresses and more mundane blaster pistols.  The ghouls channeled a biological magic called dhak.  With dhak they could do amazing feats of healing and creation of bio constructs for any application.  Dhak could also be twisted to create horrible monsters, plaguespawn, as creatures and humans could be hybridized.  400 hundreds […]

Filed Under: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: dbr14, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, LGBTQ, lgbtq characters, sci-fantasy

Dome'Loki's CBR14 Review No:14 · Genres: Fantasy, Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: dbr14, Django Wexler, Dome'Loki, LGBTQ, lgbtq characters, sci-fantasy ·
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