#bookreviews

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I feel like talking about books and book reviews. But I'm not sure that this is the right place to do it. I would do it over on BookWyrm, but there doesn't seem to be any real discussion forum option there.

Maybe I should do it on Lemmy? In one or more of the book groups? I haven't been too active on Lemmy, but maybe I should try.

I don't know. In the meantime, here's the link to my BookWyrm.social handle: https://bookwyrm.social/user/BobQuasit

I have hundreds of reviews over there, at least. Most of them imported from my old GoodReads account, which I don't use anymore. GoodReads is BADreads as far as I'm concerned! Down with Amazon!




TWO INTERTWINED THRILLERS, one set in the near past and one in the near future, are high-adrenaline pageturners that also serve as meditations on identity, perception, the power of technology, and Japan’s place in the world. Thoughtful fun. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/seesaw-monster-kotaro-isaka/1146125253?ean=9781419777073

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FEARLESS, POETIC MEMOIR from a Cree, Salish, and Métis writer tells the story not only of her own traumatic family history, but of the brutal generational oppressions that cast painful shadows in too many Indigenous lives. B PLUS

https://houseofanansi.com/collections/new-releases/products/soft-as-bones

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The Strange Case of the Alchemist’s Daughter (Recommended, 1st in Series)

The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss. Sherlock Holmes meets X-Men. Lethal Victorian X-Women with terrible fathers. Note: The cover design, looked at closely, really is a treat.

https://bookreviewsintenwords.wordpress.com/2025/11/30/the-strange-case-of-the-alchemists-daughter-recommended-1st-in-series/

INCISIVE, THOUGHT-PROVOKING ESSAYS on race and the Internet encompass many of humanity’s most beautiful creations (video games, literature, philosophy) and many of its ugliest (bigotry, torture, colonialism). Always insightful, often witty. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/racebook-tochi-onyebuchi/1147162261?ean=9780802166258

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𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗝𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗼𝗳 𝗝𝗶𝗴: 𝗯𝘆 𝗗𝗲𝗶𝗱𝗿𝗲 𝗞𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗹𝗲𝗿 -

Chapbook by the former poet laureate of Prince Edward Island, a short collection of serenity and pastoral and reflective works. Part of my collection of readings gathered as I explored East Canada last summer.

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗘𝗽𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗺𝗶𝗰 𝗙𝗿𝗶𝗰𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻" 𝗯𝘆 𝗚𝗶𝗹𝗮 𝗦𝗵𝗲𝗿 -

Sher sets out in what looks to be a pretty rigorous journey in empiricism and logic, working to align our fuzzy borders and frameworks for knowledge-making. This is the first major work I'm taking on in my research for my own next book!

AN EXTRAORDINARY WORK OF AUTOFICTION weaves together global disasters, personal tragedies, literary feuds, family eccentricities, and the oddly hallucinatory nature of both serious illness and sudden renown. Funny, poetic, allusive, strange. A MINUS

https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/will-there-ever-be-another-you-patricia-lockwood/1146743832?ean=9780593718551

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𝗥𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄: "𝗛𝗮𝗿𝗱𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗠𝗮𝘁𝘁𝗵𝗲𝘄 𝗖𝗹𝗮𝗿𝗸𝗲 -

Clarke's original Caribbean hybrid of history and myth is an act of art and decolonialization, of imagination and resistance to the mainstream, though not wholly penetrable to audiences beyond the island culture.

https://waywordsstudio.com/general/reviews/hardears-by-matthew-clarke/

𝗪𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗜’𝗺 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱𝗶𝗻𝗴: "𝗧𝗿𝗲𝗲𝘀" 𝗯𝘆 𝗛𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗲 -

I know little about this collection of essays and verse except that, since it's Hesse, it's as much reflection as observation; oh, and there's a lot of watercolor paintings by him!