Tag: science fiction
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Grievers by adrienne maree brown
Utterly sad and incredibly good. From the publisher (AK press’s Black Dawn series): Grievers is the story of a city so plagued by grief that it can no longer function.Dune’s mother is patient zero of a mysterious illness that stops people in their tracks—in mid-sentence, mid-action, mid-life—casting them into a nonresponsive state from which no…
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Two quick reads and a novel in progress
This week I had a hard time finding something I was in the mood for. Stranded in the no-man’s-land of midnight sleeplessness, a copy of Casey McQuiston’s One Last Stop popped up in Libby & I read the thing in one go. Is it good, in that resonant way that bodes repeated reading? No. But…
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June DNFs
Having terrible luck finishing books lately. When I get anxious, I’m totally unable to read books where characters are screwing up, making terrible choices, and embarrassing themselves (reader, this is almost all books of all time). So I guess this is less “book review” material and more “listen to your heart when it tells you…
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The Last Library Holds
These have been in my Holds since 2021, and they finally came in!! And within days of each other, too. I’m so excited. Borealis: An Essay by Aisha Sabatini Sloan. On Alaska, queerness, and space. A tiny book from the new Spacial Species series at Coffee House Press. The Employees: A Workplace Novel of the…
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Mid-April Reads
I’ve been on a reading binge the last three days. Between taking public transit and trying to stay off social media (failed thus far), there’s been a lot of time. I also haven’t been keeping up with posting here, as I’ve been traveling quite a lot. I visited four cities in the last three weeks,…
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A Trip to the Bookstore
I took a trip to a local bookstore a few miles north. It’s got a pretty great fiction section with lots of indie press books. Not the weird tiny presses, but lots of Fitzcarraldo, New Directions, Red Hen, Wakefield… etc. After some serious thought, I got the following: Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko…
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Currently Reading: Klara and the Sun
I’ve never successfully gotten into a Kazuo Ishiguro novel. So far I’m 82 pages into this one and liking it alright. It’s a straightforward book and easy to rush through. We will see.