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Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When …
This appeals both to my desire to read some fluff, and to my interest in hypothetical pre-industrial supply chain logistics for salt
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …
This was a frustrating read because I liked so much about it, but I thought it floundered a bit in the second half and also it was just so much. I wish it had done way less and spent more time with the story. I felt like the impact of revelations was diminished by the sheer volume and frequency they came at. The world was really interesting, but important parts didn't feel fleshed out (like the entire government and how it operated, logistically)
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
I'm really liking this but you'll be shocked to hear that this book about a soldier and a nurse in WWI is pretty bleak so far
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by …
What an absolute delight. I haven't read this in a decade and didn't realize how thematically in line with Jeeves and Wooster it is
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …
I didn’t think this book was as strong as the start of the series; it got a little… whimsical? and some of the character dynamics didn’t make a ton of sense to me, but I still was very happy to revisit this
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
I've been on a bit of a re-reading kick and this was so fun to revisit
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
So far, I'm really liking this
How to Keep House While Drowning will introduce you to six life-changing principles that will …
I was curious about this book because Davis has seemed ubiquitous lately when there's any mention of housework. I thought it was really good -- a lot of the approaches she uses (like framing cleaning as a kindness to your future self, and arranging your space to serve your needs) are things I've been doing for a long time and were very helpful in becoming someone who now has an overall functional and happy relationship with housework.
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town …
dead parents and john prine; they got my number for this one
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Where …
This really did not hold up to a reread; perhaps knowing how disappointing I found the later books colored it. But it was an escape when I needed one.
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the …
This was a delightful quick read; lively and engaging and ultimately sad
A young woman's workplace is the size of the world. She fills increasingly bizarre placements …
Re-reading to see if this hold up enough to give my sister for Christmas
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
I would say I'm back on my bullshit but I can't say I ever got off it -- really enjoying this so far.
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations. . . but only one is …
I would like to say, since I continue to wish I didn't have to stumble on other people posting their Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts, that I'm not going to post any of my Cain's Jawbone solving thoughts. Just, if anything, genuine, uncritical reactions to the text.
Six murders. One hundred pages. Millions of possible combinations. . . but only one is …
I'm doing this with some friends, a real "sickos hahah yes" choice for us