I go through periods of heavy reading, but I've been in grad school for a bit now and I'm not posting all those. When I get back to more pleasure reading, there will be a lot of sci-fi, literary fiction, and occasional histories and biographies.
This link opens in a pop-up window
I stopped watching hockey because I couldn't watch people shorten their lives for my entertainment. I wanted to see if there were some ideas to improve the outlook for hockey players but I wasn't given much hope here. Still, a powerful argument well-written.
All is quiet in the city of Rosewater as it expands on the back of the gargantuan alien Wormwood. Those …
A novel of exhilarating range, magical realism, and history—a dazzling retelling of Liberia’s formation.
Wayétu Moore’s powerful debut novel, She …
In the quiet suburbs, while Dorothy is doing chores and waiting for her husband to come home from work, not …
Fiction. Surrealist writer and painter Leonora Carrington (1917-2011) was a master of the macabre, of …
Approximately 80% excellently weird. The rest was okay.
If Beale Street Could Talk is a 1974 novel by American writer James Baldwin. His …
Cried.
On a cold spring night in 1952, a huge meteorite fell to Earth and obliterated …
Another series that I'm going to continue despite, you know, being a series.
Known for its lively, clear prose as well as its scholarly research, A People's History of the United States is …
"The former ESPN columnist and analytics pioneer dramatically recreates an action-packed 2017 game between the …
It's just exactly what I needed to read during spring training!
Set in an exotic Eastern landscape peopled by magicians and fantastic talking animals, this classic children's novel inhabits the same …
How Long 'til Black Future Month? is a collection of science fiction and fantasy short …
Not a sour note in the collection - so many distinct and original voices and settings. Jemisin is my new favorite!
Rosewater is a town on the edge. A community formed around the edges of a …
On the way to 5 stars. I'll probably move on to the second book, which is more than I do for most trilogies.
Twelve-year-old Sunny Nwazue, an American-born albino child of Nigerian parents, moves with her family back to Nigeria, where she learns …
