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Her city is under siege.
The zombies are coming back.
And all Nona wants is …
I'm not proud at how quickly I read this; also I'm not 100% sure I understand what the fuck happened but it was definitely a lot
A nice little diversion read on Libby. Very quippy and genre-y which at times veers into the slightly obnoxious Whendonesque "so THAT happened" type comedy but for a really breezy read I could more or less forgive it. Feels a little like it was written to be optioned (it was, for TV--I feel like the conception of kaiju is too expensive to pull off but writing something to be optioned isn't always the same as writing something to be made; I guess I could see it being a clever animated series?).
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced falconer, Helen had never before …
When Helen Macdonald's father died suddenly on a London street, she was devastated. An experienced …
I am reading too many books at once yes, but this has a lot of perfect sentences
very excited to get into this tome!!
Whew!!
I am still procrastinating
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and …
Yeah, this was imperfect but decent.
An audacious and powerful debut novel: a second American Civil War, a devastating plague, and …
"What if civil war in America" books are often very side-eye, and this one demands a fair amount of disbelief suspension (namely: no one's on social media and no one seems to have a phone, race/culture war shit plays zero role in the rhetoric of an American civil war, China provides humanitarian aid to the US and the US accepts it) but I think el Akkad's point here is more to explore the internecine quality of civil wars more generally and how conflict inculcates more conflict, and who actually benefits from these conditions (also some obvious script-flipping: there's an Arab empire funding Southern rebels to keep the US from bouncing back to superpower status, very CIA of them). It's compelling enough in any case.
In her moving and insightful new book, Joan Didion reassesses parts of her life, her …
Reading on Libby but might get in print. A great detail early on is when she notes that in her search for critical histories of California she abandoned one book after discovering she had been quoted in it (twice), like imagine Joan Didion saying "lol if you're citing me dum dum" and shutting a book
The compelling story of a couple living in the wake of a personal tragedy. She …
Reading time travel novels back to back is a bit of a trip--this one feels more like one of those fancy literary fiction novels about Relationships that happens to also have time travel, but I like the conceit of basically making time travel impossible to prove.
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the …
Memory makes reality.
That’s what New York City cop Barry Sutton is learning as he investigates the devastating phenomenon the …
"In The Birth of Energy Cara New Daggett traces the genealogy of contemporary notions of …
This took me a long time to get through mostly because it gets a bit academic prose-y in parts. The first half I found the arguments a bit more compelling than the second but all in all it's helped me think about work and energy and the valorization of both in new ways.
