Coming back around to murder mysteries again
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"A new stand-alone novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Early Riser and the Thursday Next series England, …
For cynical twenty-three-year-old August, moving to New York City is supposed to prove her right: that things like magic and …
Full of wonder, humor, and heart, Girl Haven is the newest original story from the author of Lumberjanes.
Three years …
In this wickedly funny cultural critique, the author of the critically acclaimed memoir and Hulu …
I didn’t finish it - got about halfway through. At the moment, I’m not able to appreciate it. I’m out of cope, and need a lot more funny with the (realist) doom.
A mysterious child lands in the care of a solitary woman, changing both of their lives forever.
I expected many …
Would you give up everything to change the world?
Humanity clings to life on January – a colonized planet divided …
Every Winter, the human population hibernates.
During those bitterly cold four months, the nation is …
It's a post-apoc story, but it has enough lightheartedness to it that I could read it during the pandemic
This book has a more rich and nuanced look as life as a Deaf person. The author is a sign language interpreter, which gives her more understanding than an author who just researches. Moreso, this isn’t just about a Deaf experience — it weaves in perspectives on being a kid with a knack and passion (in this case, radios engineering), when parents have a different cultural experience than their children, and the grief a grandparent might experience when their partner dies. All this, through the eyes of the protagonist kiddo. The beginning felt just a little bit sloggy, but that’s only because it established so many things that quickly became important to understand the story. This is one to not give up on the first chapter or two if you’re not into it.
The Overstory is a novel by Richard Powers published in 2018 by W. W. Norton & Company. It is Powers' …
Bored with traditional palace life, Princess Cimorene travels to the Mountains of Morning where she is befriended by a group …
Civilization rests on the backs of its outcasts.
So when civilization needs someone to run generating stations three kilometers below …
In these newly collected essays, interviews, and speeches, world-renowned activist and scholar Angela Y. Davis …
I paused reading this a few essays in. I’ll go back to it later.
I gave up 1/3 in, because the 2020 dystopia we’re living in doesn’t need the fretting worries of 2019 sci fi authors.
