A recent transplant to the Triangle area in NC. Main reading goals include literary fiction about modern families, current events nonfiction, scientific speculation, and more.
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Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of …
Relentless pacing that eventually crashes into the wall of its ending. It's pretty great worldbuilding and plotting, but I wish it had cut some of the subplot revolving around the Yellow Dragon Chrysalis and spent more downtime exploring with that pilots do when they're not beating each other senseless.
Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of Wu Zetian, the only female …
The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord--Grand Admiral Thrawn--has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and …
"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full …
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary life. At forty, he lives …
A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.
Linus Baker leads a quiet, solitary …
Starting strong. I do think Klune is over-relying on Linus' constantly contradicting inner monologue. But it's massaging my appreciation of the Alternate Bureaucracy Trope.
For generations, our remote ancestors have been cast as primitive and childlike--either free and equal innocents, or thuggish and warlike. …
It's five years after Return of the Jedi: the Rebel Alliance has destroyed the Death Star, defeated Darth Vader and …
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the …
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her …
Irby is a defining essayist to me in the vein of Sedaris or even Andy Rooney. I'm unsure if I would have loved this more or less when I was at my most chaotic period in my mid-twenties, but she has this effect of really reminding me why I'm not fully at home in the suburban spaces society carves out for someone with my educational background. I enjoyed both this and "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life."
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
"An impressive combination of diligence and verve, deploying Ackerman’s deep stores of knowledge as a national security journalist to full …
When, in 1922, thirty-year-old Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, he is sentenced to …
The dying Empire's most cunning and ruthless warlord--Grand Admiral Thrawn--has taken command of the remnants of the Imperial fleet and …
