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Phillip Santiago

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Joined 3 years, 5 months ago

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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David Graeber, David Wengrow: The Dawn of Everything (Hardcover, 2021, Signal)
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Tiina Nunnally, Tove Ditlevsen, Michael Favala Goldman, Ditlevsen, Tove Irma Margit: Copenhagen Trilogy (2021, Farrar, Straus & Giroux)
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Janice P. Nimura: Doctors Blackwell (2021, Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W.)

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Amor Towles: A Gentleman in Moscow: A Novel (Paperback, 2019, Penguin Books)

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Timothy Zahn: Dark force rising (1993, Bantam Books)
Spencer Ackerman: Reign of Terror (2021, Viking)
TJ Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea (Paperback, 2021, Tor Books)

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reviewed Iron Widow by Xiran Jay Zhao (Iron Widow #1)

Xiran Jay Zhao: Iron Widow (Hardcover, 2021, Penguin Teen)

Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of …

Burns Quickly, Leaving Ash

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.

started reading The House in the Cerulean Sea by TJ Klune

TJ Klune: The House in the Cerulean Sea (Paperback, 2021, Tor Books)

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

Linus Baker leads a quiet, …

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.

finished reading Wow, No Thank You. by Samantha Irby

Samantha Irby: Wow, No Thank You. (2020, Vintage)

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."