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Pat Rondon rated Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow: 5 stars
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
In this exhilarating novel, two friends--often in love, but never lovers--come together as creative partners in the world of video …
Pat Rondon rated Annihilation: 5 stars
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #1)
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the world for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
Pat Rondon rated Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus: 5 stars
Frankenstein, or, The Modern Prometheus by Mary Shelley (Enriched classic)
The original story of science gone berserk: one that changed how far our dreams can stretch. Imagine a human created …
Pat Rondon rated Priestdaddy: 4 stars
Priestdaddy by Patricia Lockwood
Father Greg Lockwood is unlike any Catholic priest you have ever met, a man who lounges in boxer shorts, loves …
Pat Rondon rated Kill It with Fire: 5 stars
Kill It with Fire by Marianne Bellotti
“Kill it with fire,” the typical first reaction to a legacy system falling into obsolescence, is a knee-jerk approach that …
Pat Rondon rated Exhalation: 4 stars
Exhalation by Ted Chiang
Ted Chiang tackles some of humanity’s oldest questions along with new quandaries only he could imagine.
In “The Merchant …
Pat Rondon rated The Making of the Atomic Bomb: 5 stars
The Making of the Atomic Bomb by Richard Rhodes
Here for the first time, in rich, human, political, and scientific detail, is the complete story of how the bomb …
Pat Rondon rated Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1): 4 stars
Dawn (Xenogenesis, #1) by Octavia E. Butler
Lilith Iyapo has just lost her husband and son when atomic fire consumes Earth—the last stage of the planet’s final …
Pat Rondon rated Tender Is the Flesh: 4 stars
Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses
Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans —though no one calls them that …
Pat Rondon rated Goodbye, Again: 4 stars
Pat Rondon rated The Memory Police: 5 stars
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor …
Pat Rondon rated The art of doing science and engineering: 3 stars
Pat Rondon rated No One Is Talking About This: 4 stars
No One Is Talking About This by Patricia Lockwood
As this urgent, genre-defying book opens, a woman who has recently been elevated to prominence for her social media posts …
