Arts grantmaker living in Austin, TX. Jazz, museums, pre-Kurtzman Star Trek, so forth and such as. Also in the fediverse at @5easypieces@social.coop.
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What if your sense of duty required you to betray the man you love? One woman struggles to choose between …
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
This was absolutely lovely, one of the most beautiful sci-fi novels I’ve read in a long time. It’s a bit of a slow start, but really draws you in and sweeps you up.
This was the best book I read all year. It completely seduced me--its charms reveal themselves slowly and quietly. I found myself not wanting to let these characters go by the end of the book. Fantastic.
Not since Sherman Alexie's The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven and Louise Erdrich's Love Medicine has such a …
It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's unnamed young protagonist from others …
Double Whammy is a 1987 novel by Carl Hiaasen. The protagonist, a private investigator, is hired to expose a celebrity …
In her vigorous and moving new book, Lauren Groff brings her electric storytelling and intelligence to a world in which …
Florida (2018)
Florida: a place of storms, snakes, and sinkholes, and so much more. Lauren Groff explores a different side of her …
A journey through psychology, philosophy, and lots of meditation that shows how Buddhism holds the key to moral clarity and …
So...I'm gradually working through the Dune books, and this was the first one that really felt like a slog. All of the books require a certain amount of faith, that this prophecy you've never heard of until now will somehow become important later, or that these six characters referenced in this conversation will make an appearance later, or whatever, but this was the first one where it just felt like chapters and chapters went by in which I had little sense of what anyone's actual aims or motivations were. Leto II refers to the "Golden Path" throughout the book as his primary driving motivation, but exactly what that was remained unclear until the closing pages. The book retains the incredible scope and mythology of the previous installments, but that scope feels like it's starting to weigh the whole enterprise down.
Hilarious New York Times No.1 bestseller about growing older in Grumpy Old Women vein, by …
This was a fairly light, breezy read that suddenly starts to hit hard in the last few essays. The end of this collection feels like an almost entirely different work, and I sorta wished that more of the rest of the book had that same tone. All that aside, the last quarter of the book or so is fantastic.
