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Cory Doctorow: The Bezzle (2024)

New York Times bestseller Cory Doctorow's The Bezzle is a high stakes thriller where the …

omg, "red team blues" was good but this was EVEN BETTER, and reading it while dipping in and out of "chokepoint capitalism" and also watching capitalism crumble into pure fascism in real time makes for a hell of a cocktail. 13/12 would read again.

Sally Rooney: Normal People

At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, …

at first I wasn't sure if I even liked this book, but I kept reading and I guess I see why people are so into this author. she has a very good and sensitive hand with characters. the word that comes to mind is "evocative." it ended up being really good, but I don't know if I want to read another one.

Naomi Alderman: The Future (Hardcover, 2023, Simon & Schuster)

When Martha Einkorn fled her father’s isolated compound in Oregon, she never expected to find …

somewhere in the middle of the beginning I got bored with this one for awhile. I've read a bunch of post-apocalyptic climate crisis cyberpunky books like this, usually but not always with damaged yet spunky female protagonists. but I kept going and next thing I knew I was thinking differently about the fucking bible? the ending was perhaps a little pat, but endings are always tough. when you want to know the truth, email me