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Silvia Moreno-Garcia, Orrin Grey: Fungi (Hardcover, 2012, Innsmouth Free Press) 4 stars

Fungi

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Entertaining anthology of fungi-related short stories often (but not always) with a horror-bent.

My favourites (with particulary outstanding shorts marked as †)

  • Last Bloom on the Sage by Andrew Penn Romine
  • The Pilgrims of Parthen† by Kristopher Reisz
  • Kum, Raúl (The Unknown Terror) by Steve Berman
  • Tubby McMungus, Fat From Fungus† by Molly Tanzer and Jesse Bullington
  • Wild Mushrooms† by Jane Hertenstein
  • Where Dead Men Go to Dream by A.C. Wise
  • Dust From a Dark Flower† by Daniel Mills
  • A Monster in the Midst by Julio Toro San Martin
  • The Pearl in the Oyster and the Oyster under Glass† by Lisa M. Bradley
  • Letters to a Fungus by Polenth Blake
  • The Shaft Through The Middle of It All by Nick Mamatas
Gabrielle Zevin: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (2022, Penguin Random House) 4 stars

On a bitter-cold day, in the December of his junior year at Harvard, Sam Masur …

to morrow

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structurally flexible. engaging characters. lightly nostalgic (but not too much!). devoured in 4 days: it was enjoyable!

it was sad, at times. i think i enjoyed all characters? except for probably dov. the rendition of relationships over such a span of time is something i don't recall ever reading. the internal monologues and renditions of conflicts from different points of view were something special, i feel

Errico Malatesta: At the Cafe: Conversations on Anarchism 4 stars

Malatesta began writing the series of dialogues that make up At the Café: Conversations on …

started reading this last night as i was scouring my ereader for a new book, and stumbled across it already on there, waiting

it's freely (and afaik legally, being authored 1920) available online from multiple sources, just give the title a search. i find the dialogue format excellent reading, it's probably one of my favourite devices next to the epistolary novel format

Barry Kirwan: The Eden Paradox (Paperback, 2011, Summertime Publications Inc) 5 stars

i liked how this started (right in the middle of the action! a very different world to the one i inhabit! that 2011 sci-fi novel feel) but around 2/5ths in it started going really crap with the plot

i'm not sure if i fooled myself by the promising start but i also feel like the writing worsened in the last half?

do not recommend lol, just dutifully finishing this rn

reviewed The Lost Steersman by Rosemary Kirstein (Steerswoman, #3)

Rosemary Kirstein: The Lost Steersman (Paperback, 2017, Rosemary Kirstein) 4 stars

How do you find a person you have never seen, or have never heard described? …

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3 stars

book 3 maintains the essence of the series but manages to stray away enough from what kept me captivated in 1 and 2 such that i feel satiated to stop here. for now, anyway (and thank the guidestars for that!)