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BoMay

BoMay@bookwyrm.social

Joined 2 years ago

History, fiction, sci-fi, nature, cycling… really anything that catches my attention.

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Leif Enger: I Cheerfully Refuse (Hardcover, 2024, Grove/Atlantic, Incorporated)

A storyteller “of great humanity and huge heart” (Minneapolis Star Tribune), Leif Enger debuted in …

Looking for light in a dim future

This is another story of survival in a near future dystopia. There is the expected darkness here but also, at times, an odd soft-focus. Still, an engaging tale.

Ian Gibson: The assassination of Federico García Lorca (1983, Penguin Books)

Investigation of Lorca’s Murder

This deep dive into the death of Lorca was researched and written when some of those involved were still alive for the author to interview. Worth tracking down a copy for anyone interested in Lorca or the Spanish Civil War.

Richard Flanagan (duplicate): Question 7 (EBook, english language, Penguin)

An exquisite, genre-defying new book from the Booker Prize–winning author of The Narrow Road to …

Connections and Memory

Part memoir and part rumination, in Question 7 Flannagan improbably connects family history, H.G. Wells, colonialism, the bombing of Hiroshima and more. A fascinating read.