Tag: survivalist
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Family After Capitalism and Death
I just read a couple more books — one through BookRiot’s marvelous Daily Deals aggregator, one (finally!) that I bought from a used bookstore on my trip this summer. L’Esprit de L’Escalier by Catherynne M. Valente (Tor.com) follows the Greek myth of Orpheus and Eurydice — Eurydice, who’s suffered an untimely death, and Orpheus, her…
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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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Just Finished: They by Kay Dick
I took this to a bar and read it in a single sitting. They is a paranoid book by British author Kay Dick — in many ways the opposite of the Brits I’ve been reading so far. It’s a dystopian novel (though not in so many words) that follows a group of dissidents, all attempting…
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Weather by Jenny Offill
I’ve not read any books by Jenny Offill before, but she’s the author of two others: Last Things and Dept. of Speculation. It’s becoming a bit repetitive at this point. “I saw it in the library and decided to check it out just in case.” While S.S. Proleterka and The Beginners wait, half-finished, on my…
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