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jonathan.brodsky

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finished reading Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1)

Leigh Bardugo: Shadow and Bone (Hardcover, 2012, Henry Holt)

Orphaned by the Border Wars, Alina Starkov is taken from obscurity and her only friend, …

this was fine - I guess I must have been subliminally advertised to, since the new season of the show is coming out.

read real fast, but sorta breaks any rules that it sets up. Maybe I'm asking too much from fantasy YA.

William Gibson: Agency (2020, Penguin Books, Limited)

Content warning elliptical notes on core characters / motivations

Omar El Akkad: American War (2017, Vintage)

this was ok

Well written enough to get through, but frustrating in its lack of engagement with the effects of climate change. This may have been an expectation issue, I heard about this book in relationship to folks changing their outlooks, but it takes two existing conflicts (US wars in the middle east, and the US civil war) and attempts to cram them into a rising sea level world.