charli started reading Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best novels of all time, …
about that time again
Reviews and Comments
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charli reviewed A Prayer for the Crown-Shy by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #2)
After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …
Gorgeous.
5 stars
charli reviewed Bluebeard by Kurt Vonnegut
Marvelous
5 stars
Vonnegut at his best. Could not put this one down. Will need to read it again.
charli reviewed Endymion by Dan Simmons (Hyperion Cantos, #3)
The multiple-award-winning SF master returns to the universe that is his greatest success--the world of …
a fun adventure story, no more and no less
4 stars
charli reviewed The Strange Bird: A Borne Story by Jeff VanderMeer
beautiful and strange
5 stars
like the best of VanderMeer's work, i'll need to revisit this one. highly recommend reading Borne first, as well as Dead Astronauts, but i do think this could stand on its own.
charli reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers (Monk and Robot, #1)
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
is it possible to be nostalgic for another world?
5 stars
sweet, beautiful, simple and short. this story came to me on the heels of a hard year, which itself was following a couple more hard years. sibling dex and mosscap were precisely the guides i needed to recenter at the end of this year and think about how to bring a little bit of tea monk energy into the next chapters of my life. i'll be rereading this one.
charli finished reading Dune by Frank Herbert
read it again shrug
charli started reading Dune by Frank Herbert
reading Dune again for comfort
charli reviewed Revelator by Daryl Gregory
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale …
Engaging, moving, thought-provoking
5 stars
Revelator hooked me from the synopsis, and did not disappoint.
charli started reading Revelator by Daryl Gregory
ONE OF THE WASHINGTON POST‘S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR • The dark, gripping tale …
needed a good horror novel to reset my brain after Jaffe's "Work Won't Love You Back" and the ongoing read of Emma Goldman's memoir. hoping this will do the trick.
charli reviewed Work Won't Love You Back by Sarah Jaffe
Brilliant, thorough, a call to action
5 stars
charli started reading The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons
The Fall of Hyperion is the second novel in the Hyperion Cantos, a science fiction …
oh no i'm binging another series
charli reviewed Bike Battles by James Longhurst
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most …
Engaging, but perhaps incomplete
4 stars
charli finished reading Nevada by Imogen Binnie
Frustrated by her current relationship, trans lesbian Maria Griffiths decides to change her life by …
broke my heart open just the way it did reading it for the first time. so glad it's back in print.
