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Jeff VanderMeer: The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (2018, MCD x FSG Originals)

beautiful and strange

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.

Becky Chambers: A Psalm for the Wild-Built (Hardcover, 2021, Tordotcom)

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?

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.

Daryl Gregory: Revelator (2021, Knopf)

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.

Imogen Binnie: Nevada (Paperback, 2022, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)

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.