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Ji FU

fu@millefeuilles.cloud

Joined 2 years, 8 months ago

Trying to find a better way to track books I want to read than a random spreadsheet. I had used readinglog.info which was provided by my local public library until they shut down the program. Luckily, I regularly backed it up via their CSV export. I've used Library Thing for years, but adding books for "To Read" really screwed up a lot of the other features of the website, like recommendations, etc. I really love Free Software & the Fediverse particularly. My primary social media account is on Friendica @fu@libranet.de

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2026 Reading Goal

65% complete! Ji FU has read 26 of 40 books.

reviewed Sword of Damocles by Geoffrey Thorne (Star Trek: Titan, #4)

Geoffrey Thorne: Sword of Damocles (Paperback, 2007, Star Trek)

Fate: It is an idea as old as life itself. Do our choices shape the …

Folding space and getting to know the new guys

I liked the Sword of Damocles. This is the first book of Thorne I have read. While the plot may not have been the best of the Star Trek: Titan series, I may have been the best written. If I had read it years ago, I probably would have hated it, as the story is not linear. For example, the first chapter is the Epilogue. I was upset originally because I thought the author/editor was an idiot, it was only several chapters later that I realized that the "epilogue" took place well after Chapter 1 (though not actually after chapter 16). Similarly, it ended with a prologue. Quite a bit of wibbly wobbly timey wimey stuff. I felt like I finally am starting to get a hold of who all these new characters are, mostly by Thorne writing most of the story from their perspective, with Riker and Troi …