Loves classic Western literature as well as discovering new cultures and stories
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Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as …
We need this story right now. The number of people willing to burn books is so disheartening to me.
Six of Crows is a fantasy novel written by the Israeli-American author Leigh Bardugo and …
Fun characters. Bit too much telling and not showing on their backstories--but probably a good choice to keep the story moving forward.
Checkov's tank?
The heist was good fun
More than a hundred years ago, Bender set out for the stars and was never …
Finally dug into questions of identity--what makes a person? The lens gets wider as the Bobs argue amongst themselves and the universe splinters into more divergent views
New alien species was interesting. Nothing groundbreaking...but enjoyable
In The Aeneid, Vergil's hero fights to claim the king's daughter, Lavinia, with whom he …
Imaginative viewpoint on the end of the Aeniad. I liked the main character--imperfect but strong and independent.
Loving detail on the rituals of the Latins and their neighbors.
Texas, 1921. A time of abundance. The Great War is over, the bounty of the …
Grapes of Wrath from a female point of view. Resiliency and family.
Pacing was very uneven--last 1/3 of the book was almost an outline
Daphne was a bit too cliche in her struggle between loving and hating the bad boy in her life. And she spent too much time thinking about bad boy instead of getting on with saving with world.
Author had a funny tick of all her characters digging their nails into things, mostly their palms
Written by someone who is still a little too bitter about the way very smart girls are treated in life. Genius chemist Mom has to forgo a career because....why? Plot point?
The book is not really sci-fi. I think it is more about how we spend time. Maybe about time and touch? It is a good meditation on this...perhaps better than taking a local bus in the wrong direction (I'm looking at you, Camus).
Time bubbles form in different sizes and shapes why?
High in the pine forests of the Spanish Sierra, a guerrilla band prepares to blow …
Amazing meditations on what people mean to each other and how we value our own lives.
Very funny--with more insight into her personal struggles and how mental illness shapes anyone's perception of the world.
克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。
在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？
I loved the description of how the AI perceives shifts in visual processing--fascinating concept of reality splintering into boxes. The AI's voice is at once synthetic and very much like an 8 year old girl. Does the Sun heal Josie? Not clear.
The human trade-offs and impacts of genetically (?) enhanced human intelligence are examined through mostly relate-able and well-developed characters.
Written when Ernest Hemingway was thirty years old and lauded as the best American novel to emerge from World War …
Collection of imaginative science fiction.
Stories included are:
In 1683, an Ottoman army that stretched from horizon to horizon set out to seize the "Golden Apple," as Turks …
