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tim rated To Be Taught, If Fortunate: 5 stars
To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers
In the future, instead of terraforming planets to sustain human life, explorers of the galaxy transform themselves.
At the turn …
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tim rated Gender Queer: A Memoir: 5 stars
Gender Queer: A Memoir by Maia Kobabe
Gender Queer: A Memoir is a 2019 graphic memoir written and illustrated by Maia Kobabe. It recounts Kobabe's journey from …
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tim finished reading Monotone Blue by . Nagabe
tim rated Sandman Book Three: 5 stars
Sandman Book Three by Neil Gaiman, Jill Thompson, Bryan Talbot
Presents four Sandman stories, including "A Midsummer Night's Dream," in which Shakespeare's company, at the instigation of the Lord of …
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Easily the best book I've read this year and in recent memory. It does everything it wants to do perfectly and fully. I am going to read this book many more times. I came to Babel having just finished Pheonix Extravagant, which has a very similar plot at a high level but feels like just another fantasy book, stopping short of making a strong statement. Its clear Babel has a reason for being written and needs to tell its story desperately.
tim rated Phoenix Extravagant: 3 stars
Phoenix Extravagant by Yoon Ha Lee
Gyen Jebi isn’t a fighter or a subversive. They just want to paint.
One day they’re jobless and desperate; the …
Thieves by Lucie Bryon, Lucie Bryon
Um... What happened last night? Ella wakes on the morning after a house party at a mysterious mansion surrounded by …
tim rated The Echo Wife: 5 stars
tim rated Half-Earth Socialism: 3 stars
Half-Earth Socialism by Troy Vettese, Drew Pendergrass
Over the next generation, humanity will confront a dystopian future of climate disaster and mass extinction. Yet the only ‘solutions’ …