I like literary fiction and speculative fiction.
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I enjoyed this, even though I've been reading a lot of the same things that Winterson has so there wasn't much new to me here. Suspect I will come back to this from time to time, she has a way of writing about the history and present of technology that is both beautiful and informative
The Ark was built to save the lives of the many, but rapidly became a refuge for the elite, the …
From the author of the classic A Little Life, a bold, brilliant novel spanning three …
This is a book, or maybe three books, about the same people, or maybe different people, living in the past, or the present, or the future. It's about relationships and secrets and care and love, and who we decide to become, to ourselves and to each other, and what we value and what we betray and the decisions that we make and the consequences they have.
Slough House is Jackson Lamb's kingdom; a dumping ground for members of the intelligence service who've screwed up: left a …
There is a Wild Man who lives in the deep quiet of Greenhollow, and he listens to the wood. Tobias, …
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, …
Reread this after getting an ebook copy for free from Tor a while back (thanks, Tor!) It's a neatly packaged little story about a robot who hacks its own systems for independence: not to kill all humans (though it could if it wanted to) but just to be left alone.
Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". …
Picked this up to reread (after more than a decade) while in the vicinity of the AT. Somehow makes months of hiking sound awful and yet at the same time something that I might want to do some day.
Bill Bryson describes his attempt to walk the Appalachian Trail with his friend "Stephen Katz". The book is written in …
Edwin St. Andrew is eighteen years old when he crosses the Atlantic by steamship, exiled …
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Really enjoyed this short novel that jumps between historical and future time periods, taking in a few characters from The Glass Hotel on the way. It's clearly a COVID-19 novel and perhaps part of Mandel's processing of having authored a pandemic novel before we had to live through the real thing, but in a way that doesn't feel like a knee-jerk 'I must write about my 2020 life' response. A book that is heavily influenced by David Mitchell's Cloud Atlas - in a good way! - and a little touch of Robert Heinlein too.
Enjoyed this road trip across the USA of the 1950s.
