P.'s bookshelf: all en-US Fri, 08 Nov 2024 21:05:02 -0800 60 P.'s bookshelf: all 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg DOUBT, Vol. 1 (Doubt, 1) 16002089 408 Yoshiki Tonogai 0316245305 P. 2 3.85 2007 DOUBT, Vol. 1 (Doubt, 1)
author: Yoshiki Tonogai
name: P.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2007
rating: 2
read at: 2013/10/17
date added: 2024/11/08
shelves: manga, mystery-or-detective, comics, series, slightly-off, yyay
review:

]]> Girl Town 41676972 164 Casey Nowak 1684065437 P. 5 W O W 3.50 2018 Girl Town
author: Casey Nowak
name: P.
average rating: 3.50
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2019/09/15
date added: 2024/09/29
shelves: comics, short-stories, slightly-off, lgbtqia
review:
W O W
]]> <![CDATA[The Marrow Thieves (Marrow Thieves #1)]]> 35436476 184 Cherie Dimaline 1770864873 P. 4 4.18 2017 The Marrow Thieves (Marrow Thieves #1)
author: Cherie Dimaline
name: P.
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2019/05/04
date added: 2024/09/28
shelves: yyay, slightly-off, near-future, lgbtqia, fictive
review:
An "uncomfortably close to the present moment" dystopia where the environment finally went kaput, all people but... indigenous? First Nations? people stopped being able to dream and started to lose their minds more, started kidnapping and interning these people in "schools" to steal their bone marrow. I was in this except for wondering... isn't bone marrow something that can be donated relatively easily and re-grown? The concept isn't deeply explored because we're following Frenchie, a teen whose parents have been lost and whose brother sacrifices himself to Recruitment officers so Frenchie can escape and go north. Luckily a group of other escapees finds him. Emotional, powerful, etc.
]]> Plain Kate 10638870 322 Erin Bow 0545328764 P. 5 3.84 2010 Plain Kate
author: Erin Bow
name: P.
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2019/06/26
date added: 2024/09/27
shelves: fantasy, fictive, paranormal-or-magic, yyay
review:
heartbreaking! probably one of the top 5 cat characters in fiction!
]]> The Tusk That Did the Damage 23509018
Orphaned by poachers as a calf and sold into a life of labor and exhibition, the Gravedigger breaks free of his chains and begins terrorizing the countryside, earning his name from the humans he kills and then tenderly buries. Manu, the studious younger son of a rice farmer, loses his cousin to the Gravedigger's violence and is drawn, with his wayward brother Jayan, into the sordid, alluring world of poaching. Emma is a young American working on a documentary with her college best friend, who witnesses the porous boundary between conservation and corruption and finds herself in her own moral gray area, a risky affair with the veterinarian who is the film's subject. As the novel hurtles toward its tragic climax, these three storylines fuse into a wrenching meditation on love and betrayal, fact and myth, duty and sacrifice.

With lyricism and suspense, Tania James animates the rural landscapes where Western idealism clashes with local reality; where a farmer's livelihood can be destroyed by a rampaging elephant; where men are driven to poaching by extreme poverty; where elephants are seen as both god and menace. In James's arrestingly beautiful prose, The Tusk That Did the Damage tells a wholly original and unforgettable story about our relationship with an animal that has mesmerized us for centuries.]]> 240 Tania James 0385354118 P. 2 half-read, nonfic, fictive 3.85 2015 The Tusk That Did the Damage
author: Tania James
name: P.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2015
rating: 2
read at: 2019/05/15
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: half-read, nonfic, fictive
review:
maybe it was the ebook format but I just lost interest 2/3 of the way through and decided not to finish this... maybe I just didn't like the fictionalized non-fiction aspect.
]]> Signal to Noise 24881581
Mexico City, 2009: Two decades after abandoning the metropolis, Meche returns for her estranged father's funeral. It's hard enough to cope with her family, but then she runs into Sebastian, reviving memories from her childhood she thought she buried a long time ago. What really happened back then? What precipitated the bitter falling out with her father? Is there any magic left?]]> 272 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 1849978905 P. 3 3.85 2015 Signal to Noise
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: P.
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2021/05/01
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: fictive, paranormal-or-magic, slightly-off, speculative
review:
a cute but dark love story - felt the characters were better realized as adolescents
]]> <![CDATA[An Accident of Stars (Manifold Worlds, #1)]]> 31342686
When Saffron Coulter stumbles through a hole in reality, she finds herself trapped in Kena, a magical realm on the brink of civil war.

There, her fate becomes intertwined with that of three very different Zech, the fast-thinking acolyte of a cunning, powerful exile; Viya, the spoiled, runaway consort of the empire-building ruler, Vex Leoden; and Gwen, an Earth-born worldwalker whose greatest regret is putting Leoden on the throne.

Pursued by Leoden and aided by the Shavaktiin, a secretive order of storytellers and mystics, the rebels flee to Veksh, a neighboring matriarchy ruled by the fearsome Council of Queens. Saffron is out of her world and out of her depth, but the further she travels, the more she finds herself bound to her friends with ties of blood and magic.

File Fantasy [ A Rough Start Trial of Queens First Kill Infinite Worlds ]]]> 466 Foz Meadows 0857665863 P. 4 3.80 2016 An Accident of Stars (Manifold Worlds, #1)
author: Foz Meadows
name: P.
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2019/03/08
date added: 2024/09/24
shelves: fantasy, fictive, lgbtqia, paranormal-or-magic, speculative
review:
don't have much to say this morning because of the time change. but I liked this enough that when my ebook expired with 15 pages left and someone else had it on hold I put it back on hold and waited so I could finish it. And I'll probably read the 2nd one too.
]]> Under the Harrow 29547454 “Once I started reading ?Under the Harrow, ?I couldn't stop. It's like ?Broadchurch? written by?Elena Ferrante.”?—Claire Messud, author of? The Woman Upstairs

“I read ?Under the Harrow ?through the night—I couldn’t put it down.”?—Alex Marwood, author of? The Wicked Girls

When Nora takes the train from London to visit her sister in the countryside, she expects to find her waiting at the station, or at home cooking dinner. But when she walks into Rachel’s familiar house, what she finds is entirely different: her sister has been the victim of a brutal murder. ?
Stunned and adrift, Nora finds she can’t return to her former life. An unsolved assault in the past has shaken her faith in the police, and she can’t trust them to find her sister’s killer. Haunted by the murder and the secrets that surround it, Nora is under the harrow: distressed and in danger. As Nora’s fear turns to obsession, she becomes as unrecognizable as the sister her investigation uncovers. ?
A riveting psychological thriller and a haunting exploration of the fierce love between two sisters, the distortions of grief, and the terrifying power of the past, Under the Harrow marks the debut of an extraordinary new writer.]]> 240 Flynn Berry 1101992069 P. 4 fictive, mystery-or-detective 3.65 2016 Under the Harrow
author: Flynn Berry
name: P.
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2017/06/25
date added: 2024/09/23
shelves: fictive, mystery-or-detective
review:
This gave me a little Tana French vibe, because of the quality of the narration, like the narrator is standing outside herself, either in recalling or dissociating. But this story isn't told by a detective, but by the sister of a murder victim, who tries to detect who murdered her sister (but of course is too involved emotionally). Definitely an unreliable narrator type situation, but in an emotionally realistic way.
]]> A House of Ghosts 45481840 Shortlisted for the Irish Book Award, a classic cozy big-house mystery haunted by the specters of World War One—for readers of Agatha Christie and Simone St. James.

Winter 1917. As the First World War enters its most brutal phase, back home in England, everyone is seeking answers to the darkness that has seeped into their lives. At Blackwater Abbey, on an island off the Devon coast, armaments manufacturer Lord Highmount has arranged a spiritualist gathering to contact his two sons, both of whom died at the front.

Among the guests, two have been secretly dispatched from the intelligence service: Kate Cartwright, a friend of the family who lost her beloved brother at the Somme and who, in the realm of the spiritual, has her own special gift; and the mysterious Captain Donovan, recently returned from Europe. Top secret plans for weapons developed by Lord Highmount’s company have turned up in Berlin, and there is reason to believe enemy spies will be in attendance. As the guests arrive, it becomes clear that each has something they would rather keep hidden. Then, when a storm descends, they find themselves trapped on the island. Soon one of their number will die. For Blackwater Abbey is haunted in more ways than one . . .
An unrelenting, gripping mystery, packed with twists and turns and a kindling of romance, A House of Ghosts is the perfect cold-weather read.]]> 315 W. C. Ryan 1948924722 P. 3 3.99 2018 A House of Ghosts
author: W. C. Ryan
name: P.
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2020/12/08
date added: 2024/09/21
shelves: fictive, historical, paranormal-or-magic
review:
A strangely unexciting mystery with ghosts that was neither great nor terrible.
]]> Last Bus to Everland 40096728 From Sophie Cameron, the author of Out of the Blue, comes a novel of magic, adventure, and what it means to truly belong.

Brody Fair feels like nobody gets not his overworked parents, not his genius older brother, and definitely not the girls in the projects set on making his life miserable. Then he meets Nico, an art student who takes Brody to Everland, a “knock-off Narnia" that opens its door at 11:21pm each Thursday for Nico and his band of present-day misfits and miscreants.

Here Brody finds his tribe and a weekly respite from a world where he feels out of place. But when the doors to Everland begin to disappear, Brody is forced to make a He can say goodbye to Everland and to Nico, or stay there and risk never seeing his family again. Will Nico take the last bus to Everland?]]> 336 Sophie Cameron 1250149924 P. 4 3.78 2019 Last Bus to Everland
author: Sophie Cameron
name: P.
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2021/05/12
date added: 2024/09/20
shelves: edinburgh, fictive, speculative, lgbtqia, yyay, fantasy
review:
It's a little strange at first that Everland is both the focal point of the book but isn't a big part of the narrative. But it's fitting, because the core of the book are the friendships that Brody finds, the depiction of his family, and the growth of his sense of belonging and trust in himself. Everland remains slippery and dreamy, and that is how it should be, I think. And while I found Out of the Blue a tad more compelling, I still devoured this book in about a day.
]]> My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir 29866525 My Mad Fat Diary is the hilarious, harrowing and touching real-life diary Rae kept during that fateful year and the basis of the hit British television series of the same name now coming to HULU. Surrounded by people like her constantly dieting mum, her beautiful frenemy Bethany, her mates from the private school up the road (called “Haddock”, “Battered Sausage” and “Fig”) and the handsome, unattainable boys Rae pines after (who sometimes end up with Bethany…), My Mad Fat Diary is the story of an overweight young woman just hoping to be loved at a time when slim pop singers ruled the charts. Rae's chronicle of her world will strike a chord with anyone who's ever been a confused, lonely teenager clashing with her parents, sometimes overeating, hating her body, always taking herself VERY seriously, never knowing how positively brilliant she is and keeping a diary to record it all. My Mad Fat Diary – 365 days with one of the wisest and funniest girls in England.]]> 364 Rae Earl 1250116503 P. 1 real-life-contemporary, yyay 3.59 2007 My Mad Fat Diary: A Memoir
author: Rae Earl
name: P.
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2007
rating: 1
read at: 2021/09/01
date added: 2024/09/16
shelves: real-life-contemporary, yyay
review:

]]> Some Kind of Fairy Tale 15822836
For twenty years after Tara Martin disappeared from her small English town, her parents and her brother, Peter, have lived in denial of the grim fact that she was gone for good. And then suddenly, on Christmas Day, the doorbell rings at her parents' home and there, disheveled and slightly peculiar looking, Tara stands. It's a miracle, but alarm bells are ringing for Peter. Tara's story just does not add up. And, incredibly, she barely looks a day older than when she vanished.

Award-winning author Graham Joyce is a master of exploring new realms of understanding that exist between dreams and reality, between the known and unknown. Some Kind of Fairy Tale is a unique journey every bit as magical as its title implies, and as real and unsentimental as the world around us.]]> 322 Graham Joyce 0385535848 P. 4 3.71 2012 Some Kind of Fairy Tale
author: Graham Joyce
name: P.
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2020/06/16
date added: 2024/09/16
shelves: fictive, paranormal-or-magic, speculative
review:
I felt the tone was somewhere between The Snow Child and Among Others. More on the fantastical side of magical realism, but grounded in reality more than magical realism. The kind of nice surprise you can get working through your gigantic "to-read" shelf.
]]> Company Town 28562798
Hwa is of the few people in her community (which constitutes the whole rig) to forgo bio-engineered enhancements. As such, she's the last truly organic person left on the rig--making her doubly an outsider, as well as a neglected daughter and bodyguard extraordinaire. Still, her expertise in the arts of self-defense and her record as a fighter mean that her services are yet in high demand. When the youngest Lynch needs training and protection, the family turns to Hwa. But can even she protect against increasingly intense death threats seemingly coming from another timeline?

Meanwhile, a series of interconnected murders threatens the city's stability and heightens the unease of a rig turning over. All signs point to a nearly invisible serial killer, but all of the murders seem to lead right back to Hwa's front door. Company Town has never been the safest place to be--but now, the danger is personal.

A brilliant, twisted mystery, as one woman must evaluate saving the people of a town that can't be saved, or saving herself.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 241 Madeline Ashby 1466889853 P. 4
Pacing: compelling
Characterization: intriguing secondary characters, vivid
Story line: action and character oriented, explicit violence, plot centered
Frame and Tone: bleak, hard edged, urban, suspenseful
Style: Direct]]> 3.81 2016 Company Town
author: Madeline Ashby
name: P.
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2020/07/16
date added: 2024/09/13
shelves: speculative, fictive, near-future
review:
I found this, I think, while I was bored somewhere and decided to go through Overdrive to find a book to read. Then it sat on my wish list until this pandemic when I began to read more ebooks. It's smart, empathetic, and bleak and explicitly thinks about what unionized sex work can look like -- in this case in an ultra-capitalistic dystopian framework -- which means imagining fixes as well as the flaws that come with it.

Pacing: compelling
Characterization: intriguing secondary characters, vivid
Story line: action and character oriented, explicit violence, plot centered
Frame and Tone: bleak, hard edged, urban, suspenseful
Style: Direct
]]> <![CDATA[The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For]]> 28669490 425 Alison Bechdel 054752353X P. 3 4.38 2008 The Essential Dykes To Watch Out For
author: Alison Bechdel
name: P.
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2019/12/27
date added: 2024/09/11
shelves: comics, lgbtqia, real-life-contemporary
review:
maybe it wasn't the best idea to read this in large chunks (the constant news tickers were tedious) but now I feel caught up on this corner of LGBTQ culture.
]]> The Rest of Us Just Live Here 25207164


A?bold and irreverent YA novel that powerfully reminds us that there are many different types of remarkable, The Rest of Just Live Here is from novelist Patrick Ness, author of the Carnegie Medal- and Kate Greenaway Medal-winning A Monster Calls and the critically acclaimed Chaos Walking trilogy.



What if you aren't the Chosen One? The one who's supposed to fight the zombies, or the soul-eating ghosts, or whatever the heck this new thing is, with the blue lights and the death?

What if you're like Mikey? Who just wants to graduate and go to prom and maybe finally work up the courage to ask Henna out before someone goes and blows up the high school. Again.

Because sometimes there are problems bigger than this week's end of the world, and sometimes you just have to find the extraordinary in your ordinary life.

Even if your best friend is worshipped by mountain lions.

ALA Best Fiction for Young Adults *?Cooperative Children’s Book Center CCBC Choice * Michael Printz Award shortlist * Kirkus Best Book of the Year * VOYA Perfect Ten * NYPL Top Ten?Best Books of the Year for Teens * Chicago Public Library Best Teen Books of the Year * Publishers Marketplace Buzz Books * ABC Best Books for Children * Bank Street Best Books List]]> 333 Patrick Ness 0062403184 P. 5 1. the basic conceit of the book
2. it pokes fun at the indie kids but doesn't totally turn them into tropes
3. the way Henna pushes back at Mike's jealousy and possessiveness
4. the way that Mike is a real, flawed character who is jealous and possessive but also a good friend and knows that he is acting as maybe not the best person, and also the depression and OCD
5. Nathan, and that he is not a hero or a villain (because of Mike's character we don't get to know him that much) and Mike's mom, and that she is not a hero or a villain]]> 3.72 2015 The Rest of Us Just Live Here
author: Patrick Ness
name: P.
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2015
rating: 5
read at: 2016/11/25
date added: 2024/09/10
shelves: yyay, speculative, slightly-off, lgbtqia
review:
Things I liked a lot:
1. the basic conceit of the book
2. it pokes fun at the indie kids but doesn't totally turn them into tropes
3. the way Henna pushes back at Mike's jealousy and possessiveness
4. the way that Mike is a real, flawed character who is jealous and possessive but also a good friend and knows that he is acting as maybe not the best person, and also the depression and OCD
5. Nathan, and that he is not a hero or a villain (because of Mike's character we don't get to know him that much) and Mike's mom, and that she is not a hero or a villain
]]> <![CDATA[ANYHOW STORIES (Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932)]]> 1993763 146 Lucy Lane Clifford 082402298X P. 3 jfic 3.67 1885 ANYHOW STORIES (Classics of children's literature, 1621-1932)
author: Lucy Lane Clifford
name: P.
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1885
rating: 3
read at: 2009/02/07
date added: 2024/08/10
shelves: jfic
review:
Most of these are just moral stories (there's actually one story that is threaded between the stand-alones). The real star of the collection is The New Mother, which any of you who may have read the Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark series when you were younger may remember, as it was in the 3rd one, I think, in an adapted form. It's totally creepy. All of them have a little bit of eerieness to them, but The New Mother is a standout.
]]> Lovesick (Ghostgirl, #3) 7146050 Romance is dead.

Before she can rest in peace, Charlotte Usher must return to the tragic site of her death: high school. She still has one last assignment to complete, but no one explained what happens if you fall in love with your class project. Charlotte would die (again) for love. But when her ticket to the afterlife means having to face the dreaded, all-too-familiar pains of being invisible, it may be too much for her to withstand.]]> 311 Tonya Hurley 0316070262 P. 0 3.66 Lovesick (Ghostgirl, #3)
author: Tonya Hurley
name: P.
average rating: 3.66
book published:
rating: 0
read at: 2010/10/07
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: yyay, series, paranormal-or-magic
review:

]]> Relato de un náufrago 23900 172 Gabriel García Márquez 0307350401 P. 4 en-espa?ol 3.88 1970 Relato de un náufrago
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: P.
average rating: 3.88
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 2008/04/08
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: en-espa?ol
review:
The story is true and also interesting, and told with humor and humility. The spanish is very nice and clear, too, but with exciting new shipwreck related vocabulary.
]]> <![CDATA[Until Death Do Us Part Omnibus (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes Vol. 1 & 2 (Until Death Do Us Part Omnibus, #1)]]> 12997477 454 Hiroshi Takashige 031621390X P. 2 manga 4.00 Until Death Do Us Part Omnibus (2-in-1 Edition), Vol. 1: Includes Vol. 1 & 2 (Until Death Do Us Part Omnibus, #1)
author: Hiroshi Takashige
name: P.
average rating: 4.00
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2012/06/14
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: manga
review:
The premise of this manga was a little different than most I've read so far - it wasn't about romance or mystical stuff or trying to be the best ninja, so that made me keep reading. However, the most interesting/creepoid tidbit that I learned from this book was in book 2's appendix where the author writes that one of his most frequently asked questions from the readers are "why don't you show [the 12 year old's] panties?" UGH. COME ON, PEOPLE.
]]> <![CDATA[Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, A True Story in Black and White]]> 7684018 Long before President Barack Obama praised his work as “an all-encompassing, all-hands-on-deck anti-poverty effort that is literally saving a generation of children,” and First Lady Michelle Obama called him “one of my heroes,” Geoffrey Canada was a small and scared boy growing up in the South Bronx. His childhood world was one where “sidewalk boys” learned the codes of the block and were ranked through the rituals of fist, stick, knife, and, finally, gun. In a stunning pairing, acclaimed comics creator Jamar Nicholas presents Canada’s raw and riveting account, one of the most authentic and important true stories of urban violence ever told.

]]> 124 Geoffrey Canada 0807044490 P. 4 yyay, comics, nonfic
I feel like this book is an effective conversation starter about violence, and it was riveting for me to read because I didn't have a childhood like his, but I could still find things to relate to, like the fear of a child wondering how the world works and being anxious about how (s)he is going to learn such things. It was very well-depicted.]]> 4.01 1995 Fist Stick Knife Gun: A Personal History of Violence, A True Story in Black and White
author: Geoffrey Canada
name: P.
average rating: 4.01
book published: 1995
rating: 4
read at: 2010/12/29
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: yyay, comics, nonfic
review:
This is a very good adaptation of a non-graphic novel book. I still put the other version on hold, though. I want to know all about Geoffrey Canada!

I feel like this book is an effective conversation starter about violence, and it was riveting for me to read because I didn't have a childhood like his, but I could still find things to relate to, like the fear of a child wondering how the world works and being anxious about how (s)he is going to learn such things. It was very well-depicted.
]]> We're Better Than This 50993695 Baltimore Congressman Elijah Cummings was known for saying “We’re better than this.”

He said it in Baltimore, a city on the verge of explosion over police treatment of citizens.? He said it in Congress when microphones were shut down, barring free speech.? He said it when the President flaunted his power and ignored the Constitution.? He said it when the President resorted to bullying, name-calling and feeding racial divisions. We are better than this. He continued to say it until his final days last October.? He said it because he believed we must call out what is wrong and call on our better selves to make things right.

In We’re Better Than This, Cummings details the formative moments in his life that prepared him to hold President Donald Trump accountable for his actions while in office. Cummings powerfully weaves together the urgent drama of modern-day politics and the defining stories from his past. He offers a unique perspective on how his upbringing as the son of sharecroppers in a South Baltimore neighborhood, rampant with racism and poverty, laid the foundation of a life spent fighting for justice.?

Cummings was known for his ability to referee contentious members of Congress and reach across the aisle for the sake of justice. Since his early days in politics, Cummings proved his abilities as a leader and legal mind who could operate at the highest levels of democracy, always working with – and for – the underserved.

Part memoir, part call-to-action, the book goes behind the scenes with the House Democratic leadership, offering an eye-opening account of the relentless and unprecedented obstructionism by both the President and GOP. Cummings’ final words present a vital defense of how government oversight defines our collective trust and makes the case that, even in the face of our nation’s most challenging times, we must remain rooted in the politics of optimism.?

]]> 320 Elijah Cummings 0062992287 P. 2 nonfic 4.38 2020 We're Better Than This
author: Elijah Cummings
name: P.
average rating: 4.38
book published: 2020
rating: 2
read at: 2021/02/11
date added: 2024/07/23
shelves: nonfic
review:
Elijah Cummings did a lot of good and was a great man - someone who owned his humanity and extended his acceptance and care to others. I simply am not a memoir/biography person and think this book is less a memoir than a rehashing of the political events of the past 4 years which I didn't need or want to read - since there wasn't an analysis other than: we're better than this. I would have rather known more about Cummings' life - those sections were the most interesting. (I didn't choose to read this; I'm reading it for work).
]]> <![CDATA[The Sign of the Four: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel]]> 8353094
The drama begins when a woman arrives on Holmes's doorstep asking for his help finding an anonymous person who has been sending her mysterious gifts and letters. Holmes agrees to investigate-but soon he and Dr. Watson find themselves entangled in a deadly treasure hunt.]]> 124 Ian Edginton 1402780036 P. 3 comics - I like the assured lines of the art.
- And the jewel-like, some times even pastelly color scheme, that also managed to be dark.
- I can see how this could make a non-Holmes reader put off by its relative age be sucked into reading more Holmes mysteries
- The paper smelled really nice.

Cons:
- I wish the sequencing would have been more playful. Many talking heads.
- Watson fell in love because it was in the original story. There was no other reason that I could discern.
- I was still kind of confused by the original heist that precipitated the whole mystery.
]]> 3.84 1890 The Sign of the Four: A Sherlock Holmes Graphic Novel
author: Ian Edginton
name: P.
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1890
rating: 3
read at: 2011/05/13
date added: 2024/07/22
shelves: comics
review:
Pros:
- I like the assured lines of the art.
- And the jewel-like, some times even pastelly color scheme, that also managed to be dark.
- I can see how this could make a non-Holmes reader put off by its relative age be sucked into reading more Holmes mysteries
- The paper smelled really nice.

Cons:
- I wish the sequencing would have been more playful. Many talking heads.
- Watson fell in love because it was in the original story. There was no other reason that I could discern.
- I was still kind of confused by the original heist that precipitated the whole mystery.

]]> It's Kind of a Funny Story 9396843 452 Ned Vizzini 1423141083 P. 5 yyay 4.03 2006 It's Kind of a Funny Story
author: Ned Vizzini
name: P.
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2006
rating: 5
read at: 2011/12/06
date added: 2024/07/09
shelves: yyay
review:
I'm glad that Vizzini chose to make his character have a hopeful ending and a successful time in Six North because clearly he has the writing skills to portray depression in all of its terrible, bottomless reality. He shows through some of the others staying there that one visit isn't all it takes, and it's not easy to get to a Shift, but thankfully there's sweetness mixed into the story.
]]> Tighter 9743550 226 Adele Griffin 0375896430 P. 3 3.55 2011 Tighter
author: Adele Griffin
name: P.
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2011
rating: 3
read at: 2020/05/03
date added: 2024/07/09
shelves: yyay, paranormal-or-magic, fictive
review:
Evoked a paranoid and ghostly atmosphere while still being a breezy summer YA read. Maybe you will also spot the "twist" early on, but I don't think that matters much to the effectiveness of the story. I thought the reveal/end was a little rushed and jumbled though.
]]> <![CDATA[Runaways vol. 8: Dead End Kids]]> 5944956 152 Joss Whedon 078512389X P. 3 comics, yyay
]]> 3.78 2008 Runaways vol. 8: Dead End Kids
author: Joss Whedon
name: P.
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2009/06/27
date added: 2024/07/05
shelves: comics, yyay
review:
You can totally tell Joss Whedon wrote this. For me, that is a good thing. I think his playfulness meshes well with the characters.


]]> Dylan Dog 2: El Druida 73741 100 Pasquale Ruju 1594972451 P. 3 en-espa?ol, comics 3.60 2000 Dylan Dog 2: El Druida
author: Pasquale Ruju
name: P.
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2009/02/26
date added: 2024/05/05
shelves: en-espa?ol, comics
review:
He's like a supernatural Nancy Drew... with Groucho Marx as a sidekick.
]]> Night Bus 59136698
Nature infringes upon the man-made world via gigantism and explosive abundance–the images in Night Bus are often unsettling, not aimed to horrify, but to upset the balance of modern life.

Zuo Ma is part of a burgeoning Chinese art comics scene that pushes emotion to the forefront of the story while playing with action and dreams.]]> 412 Zuo Ma P. 5 3.35 2021 Night Bus
author: Zuo Ma
name: P.
average rating: 3.35
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/10/01
date added: 2023/10/25
shelves: comics, fantasy, fictive, paranormal-or-magic, short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel]]> 7960820 "For a second we gasped in admiration..."

September 1930. A scientific expedition embarks for the frozen wasteland of Antarctica. But the secrets they unearth there reveal a past almost beyond human comprehension - and a future too terrible to imagine. By taking scientific fact so seriously, At the Mountains of Madness(1936), H.P Lovecraft's classic take on the "heroic age" of polar exploration, helped to define a new era in 20th-century science fiction.

"...and then vague horror began to creep into our souls."]]> 128 I.N.J. Culbard 1906838127 P. 3 comics, speculative 3.90 2012 At the Mountains of Madness: A Graphic Novel
author: I.N.J. Culbard
name: P.
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2012/04/19
date added: 2023/10/02
shelves: comics, speculative
review:
explores the vasty deeps of: space, the arctic, AND the primordial ocean.
]]> <![CDATA[Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening]]> 55883882
Collects MONSTRESS #1-6

About the Creators:

New York Times bestselling and award-winning writer Marjorie Liu is best known for her fiction and comic books. She teaches comic book writing at MIT, and leads a class on Popular Fiction at the Voices of Our Nation (VONA) workshop. Ms. Liu's extensive work includes the bestselling "Astonishing X-Men" for Marvel Comics, which featured the gay wedding of X-Man Northstar and was subsequently nominated for a GLAAD Media Award for outstanding media images of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender community. Prior to writing full-time, Liu was a lawyer. She currently resides in Boston.

Sana Takeda is an illustrator and comic book artist who was born in Niigata, and now resides in Tokyo, Japan. At age 20 she started out as a 3D CGI designer for SEGA, a Japanese video game company, and became a freelance artist when she was 25. She is still an artist, and has worked on titles such as "X-23" and "Ms. Marvel" for Marvel Comics, and is an illustrator for trading card games in Japan.]]> 192 Marjorie M. Liu 1632157098 P. 3
Merged review:

I am intrigued and I respect that as a reader it was my job to put 2 & 2 together as far as the world goes, but it wasn't so unexplained that I found it confusing.]]> 3.96 2016 Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
author: Marjorie M. Liu
name: P.
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2017/02/23
date added: 2023/08/28
shelves: comics, fantasy, paranormal-or-magic
review:
I am intrigued and I respect that as a reader it was my job to put 2 & 2 together as far as the world goes, but it wasn't so unexplained that I found it confusing.

Merged review:

I am intrigued and I respect that as a reader it was my job to put 2 & 2 together as far as the world goes, but it wasn't so unexplained that I found it confusing.
]]> <![CDATA[The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969]]> 10474309
Volume two takes place almost 60 years after the events of Century 1910, in the psychedelic haze of Swinging London in 1969 - a place where Tadukic Acid Diethylamide 26 is the drug of choice and where different underworlds are starting to overlap dangerously to an accompaniment of sit-ins and sitars.]]> 80 Alan Moore 0861661621 P. 1 comics, speculative 3.37 2011 The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen: Century 1969
author: Alan Moore
name: P.
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2011
rating: 1
read at: 2011/09/28
date added: 2023/07/25
shelves: comics, speculative
review:

]]> Coraline 1967070
But there's another mother there and another father, and they want her to stay and be their little girl. They want to change her and never let her go. Coraline will have to fight with all her wit and all the tools she can find if she is to save herself and return to her ordinary life.

This beloved tale has now become a visual feast. Acclaimed artist P. Craig Russell brings Neil Gaiman's enchanting nationally bestselling children's book Coraline to new life in this gorgeously illustrated graphic novel adaptation]]> 192 P. Craig Russell 006082543X P. 3 comics, jfic 4.07 2008 Coraline
author: P. Craig Russell
name: P.
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2008/09/11
date added: 2023/07/22
shelves: comics, jfic
review:
I think I'd like to read the book now.
]]> Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone 11737266
Becca has always longed to break free from her small, backwater hometown. But the discovery of an unidentified dead girl on the side of a dirt road sends the town--and Becca--into a tailspin. Unable to make sense of the violence of the outside world creeping into her backyard, Becca finds herself retreating inward, paralyzed from moving forward for the first time in her life.

Short chapters detailing the last days of Amelia Anne Richardson's life are intercut with Becca's own summer as the parallel stories of two young women struggling with self-identity and relationships on the edge twist the reader closer and closer to the truth about Amelia's death.]]> 304 Kat Rosenfield 0525423893 P. 3 real-life-contemporary, yyay 3.34 2012 Amelia Anne Is Dead and Gone
author: Kat Rosenfield
name: P.
average rating: 3.34
book published: 2012
rating: 3
read at: 2020/05/11
date added: 2023/07/21
shelves: real-life-contemporary, yyay
review:
Not a lot of this held together ... romances, character motivations, etc. Except for the toxic masculinity. That was real.
]]> <![CDATA[Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening]]> 30333227
Collects MONSTRESS #1-6]]> 208 Marjorie M. Liu P. 3 3.93 2016 Monstress, Volume 1: Awakening
author: Marjorie M. Liu
name: P.
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2023/07/12
shelves:
review:
I am intrigued and I respect that as a reader it was my job to put 2 & 2 together as far as the world goes, but it wasn't so unexplained that I found it confusing.
]]> <![CDATA[The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle]]> 40914164
There are eight days, and eight witnesses for you to inhabit.

We will only let you escape once you tell us the name of the killer.

Understood? Then let's begin . . .

Evelyn Hardcastle will die. Every day until Aiden Bishop can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time the day begins again, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others . . .

The most inventive debut of the year twists together a mystery of such unexpected creativity it will leave listeners guessing until the very last second.]]> 458 Stuart Turton 149267012X P. 2 3.75 2018 The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle
author: Stuart Turton
name: P.
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2018
rating: 2
read at: 2020/11/22
date added: 2023/06/13
shelves: mystery-or-detective, speculative, fictive
review:
Read for a book club. I found the whole premise more and more distracting as the book went on. And the fatphobia didn't help.
]]> The Liar's Girl 36036244 Her first love confessed to five murders. But the truth was so much worse.

Dublin's notorious Canal Killer, Will Hurley, is ten years into his life sentence when the body of a young woman is fished out of the Grand Canal. Though detectives suspect they are dealing with a copycat, they turn to Will for help. He claims he has the information the police need, but will only give it to one person - the girl he was dating when he committed his horrific crimes.

Alison Smith has spent the last decade abroad, putting her shattered life in Ireland far behind her. But when she gets a request from Dublin imploring her to help prevent another senseless murder, she is pulled back to face the past - and the man - she's worked so hard to forget.]]> 330 Catherine Ryan Howard 1504782542 P. 0 3.83 2018 The Liar's Girl
author: Catherine Ryan Howard
name: P.
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/12
shelves: fictive, mystery-or-detective, real-life-contemporary
review:

]]> Confessions of the Fox 36470806 Set in the eighteenth century London underworld, this bawdy, genre-bending novel reimagines the life of thief and jailbreaker Jack Sheppard to tell a profound story about gender, love, and liberation.

Recently jilted and increasingly unhinged, Dr. Voth throws himself into his work, obsessively researching the life of Jack Sheppard, a legendary eighteenth century thief. No one knows Jack’s true story—his confessions have never been found. That is, until Dr. Voth discovers a mysterious stack of papers titled Confessions of the Fox.

Dated 1724, the manuscript tells the story of an orphan named P. Sold into servitude at twelve, P struggles for years with her desire to live as “Jack.” When P falls dizzyingly in love with Bess, a sex worker looking for freedom of her own, P begins to imagine a different life. Bess brings P into the London underworld where scamps and rogues clash with London’s newly established police force, queer subcultures thrive, and ominous threats of an oncoming plague abound. At last, P becomes Jack Sheppard, one of the most notorious—and most wanted—thieves in history.

Back in the present, Dr. Voth works feverishly day and night to authenticate the manuscript. But he’s not the only one who wants Jack’s story—and some people will do whatever it takes to get it. As both Jack and Voth are drawn into corruption and conspiracy, it becomes clear that their fates are intertwined—and only a miracle will save them both.

An imaginative retelling of Brecht’s Threepenny Opera, Confessions of the Fox blends high-spirited adventure, subversive history, and provocative wit to animate forgotten histories and the extraordinary characters hidden within.]]> 352 Jordy Rosenberg 039959227X P. 0 3.79 2018 Confessions of the Fox
author: Jordy Rosenberg
name: P.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/12
shelves: fictive, historical, slightly-off, lgbtqia
review:

]]> Mapping the Interior 31189134
The house is the kind of wrong place where you can lose yourself and find things you'd rather not have. Over the course of a few nights, the boy tries to map out his house in an effort that puts his little brother in the worst danger, and puts him in the position to save them . . . at terrible cost.]]> 131 Stephen Graham Jones P. 0 3.79 2017 Mapping the Interior
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: P.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/04/12
shelves: fictive, horror-y, real-life-contemporary, speculative
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 1]]> 13528705
COLLECTING: ULTIMATE COMICS SPIDER-MAN (2011) 1-5]]> 136 Brian Michael Bendis 0785157131 P. 4 comics, yyay, series
Merged review:

I really liked the art and as for the story, I felt bad for Miles.]]> 4.27 2011 Ultimate Comics Spider-Man, Vol. 1
author: Brian Michael Bendis
name: P.
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2011
rating: 4
read at: 2012/07/15
date added: 2023/04/11
shelves: comics, yyay, series
review:
I really liked the art and as for the story, I felt bad for Miles.

Merged review:

I really liked the art and as for the story, I felt bad for Miles.
]]> Don't Look Now 2871390 Rebecca, My Cousin Rachel, and Jamaica Inn she transformed the small dramas of everyday life—love, grief, jealousy—into the stuff of nightmares. Less known, though no less powerful, are her short stories, in which she gave free rein to her imagination in narratives of unflagging suspense.

Patrick McGrath's revelatory new selection of du Maurier's stories shows her at her most chilling and most psychologically astute: a dead child reappears in the alleyways of Venice; routine eye surgery reveals the beast within to a meek housewife; nature revolts against man's abuse by turning a benign species into an annihilating force; a dalliance with a beautiful stranger offers something more dangerous than a broken heart. McGrath draws on the whole of du Maurier's long career and includes surprising discoveries together with famous stories like "The Birds". Don't Look Now is a perfect introduction to a peerless storyteller.]]> 346 Daphne du Maurier 1590172884 P. 4 so good! 4.06 2007 Don't Look Now
author: Daphne du Maurier
name: P.
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2013/10/01
date added: 2023/03/31
shelves: short-stories, slightly-off, fictive
review:
so good!
]]> <![CDATA[Big City Otto (Elephants Never Forget, #1)]]> 11329536 80 Bill Slavin 1554534763 P. 2 comics, jfic 3.24 Big City Otto (Elephants Never Forget, #1)
author: Bill Slavin
name: P.
average rating: 3.24
book published:
rating: 2
read at: 2011/08/30
date added: 2023/03/19
shelves: comics, jfic
review:

]]> Odd Girl Out 120356 187 Joan Lingard 0340757353 P. 3 yyay, edinburgh 3.00 1970 Odd Girl Out
author: Joan Lingard
name: P.
average rating: 3.00
book published: 1970
rating: 3
read at: 2012/12/08
date added: 2023/01/28
shelves: yyay, edinburgh
review:
this is part of my Edinburgh-set Reading Series. Primarily an emotional-upheaval plotline, not the Drama that they're trying to sell readers on the cover flap, and there's nothing wrong with emotional-upheaval, so why lie? Poor old Gooseberry Ellie is true to herself even though she doesn't really know what that means just yet, and her mom has to go and marry some boring old guy who sells insurance and lives in a bungalow, taking E. away from her street and her friends and her father figure, an old Czech pianist who is giving her lessons. A satisfying entry to my reading list.
]]> <![CDATA[Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide]]> 35888383 Photographic is a symbolic, poetic, and deeply personal graphic biography of this iconic photographer. Iturbide's journey will excite readers of all ages as well as budding photographers, who will be inspired by her resolve, talent, and curiosity.]]> 96 Isabel Quintero 1947440004 P. 5 art, comics, nonfic 3.93 2017 Photographic: The Life of Graciela Iturbide
author: Isabel Quintero
name: P.
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2018/12/16
date added: 2023/01/19
shelves: art, comics, nonfic
review:
I loved that this didn't try to be an exhaustive biography - it was a poetic exploration of the artist's inspiration and touched on her mentors and the most important subjects/locations of her career, with the motif of birds - wings for the eyes- as a throughline. Some of the photographs are reproduced in the book as well. I thought the art complemented and worked with the text really well - it was realistic without seeming like someone just put a photoshop filter over some photographs.
]]> The Poison Eaters 49763052
Formaldehyde, borax, salicylic acid. Today, these chemicals are used in embalming fluids, cleaning supplies, and acne medications. But in 1900, they were routinely added to food that Americans ate from cans and jars.

In 1900, products often weren't safe because unregulated, unethical companies added these and other chemicals to trick consumers into buying spoiled food or harmful medicines. Chemist Harvey Washington Wiley recognized these dangers and began a relentless thirty-year campaign to ensure that consumers could purchase safe food and drugs, eventually leading to the creation of the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, or FDA, a US governmental organization that now has a key role in addressing the?COVID-19/Coronavirus?pandemic gripping the world today.?Acclaimed nonfiction and Sibert Honor winning author Gail Jarrow uncovers this intriguing history in her trademark style that makes the past enthrallingly relevant for today's young readers.]]> 160 Gail Jarrow 1629794384 P. 4 nonfic, yyay 4.11 The Poison Eaters
author: Gail Jarrow
name: P.
average rating: 4.11
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2020/01/18
date added: 2022/09/14
shelves: nonfic, yyay
review:
Compelling YA non-fiction - the fact that regulation and actual power to get poisonous products off the market took so long to happen is as shocking as ever, and the examples of what happened to people are tragic and disgusting.
]]> Poems 4904713 95 Elizabeth Bishop P. 5 pomes 4.28 1980 Poems
author: Elizabeth Bishop
name: P.
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1980
rating: 5
read at: 2011/09/14
date added: 2022/09/08
shelves: pomes
review:
I had no desire to read Elizabeth Bishop before, I think because, while "One Art" is obviously a tight poem, I was never bowled over by it. (I've never typed out "bowled over" before. It doesn't look right.) Then I read about her and it quoted some irresistibly good poetry. So I took this book out of the library. Not only does it have a kick-ass cover design (this is the original printing), but the poems are so good. Not just well-written, but filled with goodness. Maybe bravery. As with any book of poems, I don't love every single one, but there are so many stunners, poems that I would read and then have to read again. And then sit. And then go back and read again. And I still don't feel like I've processed them enough. They're simple on the surface - Bishop uses plain-faced language and description-- but they take wonderful turns in meaning. She's especially good with colors. I feel like reading these poems has shored up my brain in some essential way.
]]> Persephone Station 49295293 The Mandalorian and Cowboy Bebop in this high-stakes adventure.

Persephone Station, a seemingly backwater planet that has largely been ignored by the United Republic of Worlds, becomes the focus for the Serrao-Orlov Corporation as the planet has a few secrets the corporation tenaciously wants to exploit.

Rosie—owner of Monk’s Bar, in the corporate town of West Brynner—caters to wannabe criminals and rich Earther tourists, of a sort, at the front bar. However, exactly two types of people drink at Monk’s back bar: members of a rather exclusive criminal class and those who seek to employ them.

Angel—ex-marine and head of a semi-organized band of beneficent criminals, wayward assassins, and washed up mercenaries with a penchant for doing the honorable thing—is asked to perform a job for Rosie. What this job reveals will affect Persephone and put Angel and her squad up against an army. Despite the odds, they are rearing for a fight with the Serrao-Orlov Corporation. For Angel, she knows that once honor is lost, there is no regaining it. That doesn’t mean she can’t damned well try.]]> 512 Stina Leicht 1534414584 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.43 2021 Persephone Station
author: Stina Leicht
name: P.
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> Stealing the Elf-King's Roses 176520 401 Diane Duane 0446609838 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.61 2002 Stealing the Elf-King's Roses
author: Diane Duane
name: P.
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> Rabbit Island 53961811
These eleven stories from one of Granta’s “Best Young Spanish-Language Novelists” are psychogeographies of dingy hotel rooms, shape-shifting cities, and graveyards. They act as microscopes fixed upon the regions of our interior lives we often neglect, where the death of God and the failures of institutions have given way to alternative modes of making sense of the world. They are cracked bedroom mirrors. Do you like what you see?]]> 184 Elvira Navarro 1949641090 P. 0 3.43 2019 Rabbit Island
author: Elvira Navarro
name: P.
average rating: 3.43
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive, short-stories
review:

]]> <![CDATA[What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat]]> 52011076 From the creator of Your Fat Friend, an explosive indictment of the systemic and cultural bias facing plus-size people that will move us toward creating an agenda for fat justice.

Anti-fatness is everywhere. In What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat, Aubrey Gordon unearths the cultural attitudes and social systems that have led to people being denied basic needs because they are fat and calls for social justice movements to be inclusive of plus-sized people's experiences. Unlike the recent wave of memoirs and quasi self-help books that encourage readers to love and accept themselves, Gordon pushes the discussion further towards authentic fat activism, which includes ending legal weight discrimination, giving equal access to health care for large people, increased access to public spaces, and ending anti-fat violence. As she argues, I did not come to body positivity for self-esteem. I came to it for social justice.

By sharing her experiences as well as those of others--from smaller fat to very fat people--she concludes that to be fat in our society is to be seen as an undeniable failure, unlovable, unforgivable, and morally condemnable. Fatness is an open invitation for others to express disgust, fear, and insidious concern. To be fat is to be denied humanity and empathy. Studies show that fat survivors of sexual assault are less likely to be believed and less likely than their thin counterparts to report various crimes; 27% of very fat women and 13% of very fat men attempt suicide; over 50% of doctors describe their fat patients as awkward, unattractive, ugly and noncompliant; and in 48 states, it's legal--even routine--to deny employment because of an applicant's size.

Advancing fat justice and changing prejudicial structures and attitudes will require work from all people. What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat is a crucial tool to create a tectonic shift in the way we see, talk about, and treat our bodies, fat and thin alike.]]> 197 Aubrey Gordon 0807041300 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.41 2020 What We Don't Talk About When We Talk About Fat
author: Aubrey Gordon
name: P.
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, nonfic
review:

]]> A World Between 53703632
Emily Hashimoto’s debut novel perfectly captures the wonder and confusion of growing up and growing closer. Narrated in sparkling prose, A World Between follows two strikingly different but interconnected women as they navigate family, female friendship, and their own fraught history.]]> 432 Emily Hashimoto 1936932954 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.70 2020 A World Between
author: Emily Hashimoto
name: P.
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> Farthing (Small Change, #1) 183740
Despite her parents' evident disapproval, Lucy is married — happily — to a London Jew. It was therefore quite a surprise to Lucy when she and her husband David found themselves invited to the retreat. It's even more startling when, on the retreat's first night, a major politician of the Farthing set is found gruesomely murdered, with abundant signs that the killing was ritualistic.

It quickly becomes clear to Lucy that she and David were brought to the retreat in order to pin the murder on him. Major political machinations are at stake, including an initiative in Parliament, supported by the Farthing set, to limit the right to vote to university graduates.

But whoever's behind the murder, and the frame-up, didn't reckon on the principal investigator from Scotland Yard being a man with very private reasons for sympathizing with outcasts… and looking beyond the obvious.
As the trap slowly shuts on Lucy and David, they begin to see a way out — a way fraught with peril in a darkening world.]]> 319 Jo Walton 0765314215 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.79 2006 Farthing (Small Change, #1)
author: Jo Walton
name: P.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2006
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> <![CDATA[Victories Greater Than Death (Unstoppable #1)]]> 53205810
But when the beacon activates, it turns out that Tina’s destiny isn’t quite what she expected. Things are far more dangerous than she ever assumed. Luckily, Tina is surrounded by a crew she can trust, and her best friend Rachael, and she is still determined to save all the worlds. But first she’ll have to save herself.

Buckle up your seatbelt for this thrilling sci-fi adventure set against an intergalactic war from international bestselling author Charlie Jane Anders.]]> 288 Charlie Jane Anders 1250317312 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.46 2021 Victories Greater Than Death (Unstoppable #1)
author: Charlie Jane Anders
name: P.
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> <![CDATA[The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)]]> 50523477 Empire of Sand and Realm of Ash Tasha Suri's The Jasmine Throne, beginning a new trilogy set in a world inspired by the history and epics of India, in which a captive princess and a maidservant in possession of forbidden magic become unlikely allies on a dark journey to save their empire from the princess's traitor brother.

Imprisoned by her dictator brother, Malini spends her days in isolation in the Hirana: an ancient temple that was once the source of the powerful, magical deathless waters — but is now little more than a decaying ruin.

Priya is a maidservant, one among several who make the treacherous journey to the top of the Hirana every night to clean Malini’s chambers. She is happy to be an anonymous drudge, so long as it keeps anyone from guessing the dangerous secret she hides.

But when Malini accidentally bears witness to Priya’s true nature, their destinies become irrevocably tangled. One is a vengeful princess seeking to depose her brother from his throne. The other is a priestess seeking to find her family. Together, they will change the fate of an empire.]]> 533 Tasha Suri 0356515648 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.12 2021 The Jasmine Throne (The Burning Kingdoms, #1)
author: Tasha Suri
name: P.
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> Far from the Light of Heaven 57007657 Ragtime docks in the Lagos system, having traveled light-years to bring one thousand sleeping souls to a new home among the stars. But when first mate Michelle Campion rouses, she discovers some of the sleepers will never wake.

Answering Campion's distress call, investigator Rasheed Fin is tasked with finding out who is responsible for these deaths. Soon a sinister mystery unfolds aboard the gigantic vessel, one that will have repercussions for the entire system—from the scheming politicians of Lagos station, to the colony planet Bloodroot, to other far-flung systems, and indeed to Earth itself.]]> Tade Thompson 1549136550 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.39 2021 Far from the Light of Heaven
author: Tade Thompson
name: P.
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> Litani 56272803 The Amazon Charts bestselling author of Unspeakable Things and Bloodline explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime.

In the summer of ’84, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. The locals whisper about The Game, and her mother warns her to stay out of the woods and away from adults.

When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in Litani. She’s not the only one becoming paranoid. Hysteria burns through the community. Dark secrets emerge. And Frankie fears that, even in the bright light of day, she might be living among monsters.]]> 315 Jess Lourey 1542027012 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.72 2021 Litani
author: Jess Lourey
name: P.
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/09/02
shelves: to-read, fictive
review:

]]> The Lighthouse Witches 56808509 Two sisters go missing on a remote Scottish island. Twenty years later, one is found—but she's still the same age as when she disappeared. The secrets of witches have reached across the centuries in this chilling Gothic thriller from the author of the acclaimed The Nesting.

When single mother Liv is commissioned to paint a mural in a 100-year-old lighthouse on a remote Scottish island, it's an opportunity to start over with her three daughters--Luna, Sapphire, and Clover. When two of her daughters go missing, she's frantic. She learns that the cave beneath the lighthouse was once a prison for women accused of witchcraft. The locals warn her about wildlings, supernatural beings who mimic human children, created by witches for revenge. Liv is told wildlings are dangerous and must be killed.

Twenty-two years later, Luna has been searching for her missing sisters and mother. When she receives a call about her youngest sister, Clover, she's initially ecstatic. Clover is the sister she remembers—except she's still seven years old, the age she was when she vanished. Luna is worried Clover is a wildling. Luna has few memories of her time on the island, but she'll have to return to find the truth of what happened to her family. But she doesn't realize just how much the truth will change her.]]> 350 C.J. Cooke 059333423X P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.92 2021 The Lighthouse Witches
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]]> <![CDATA[Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally]]> 56922093
Disabled people are the world’s largest minority, an estimated 15 percent of the global population. But many of us–disabled and non-disabled alike–don’t know how to act, what to say, or how to be an ally to the disability community. Demystifying Disability is a friendly handbook on important disability issues you need to know about, including:

? How to appreciate disability history and identity
? How to recognize and avoid ableism (discrimination toward disabled people)
? How to be mindful of good disability etiquette
? How to appropriately think, talk, and ask about disability
? How to ensure accessibility becomes your standard practice, from everyday communication to planning special events
? How to identify and speak up about disability stereotypes in media

Authored by celebrated disability rights advocate, speaker, and writer Emily Ladau, this practical, intersectional guide offers all readers a welcoming place to understand disability as part of the human experience.]]> 176 Emily Ladau 1984858971 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.39 2021 Demystifying Disability: What to Know, What to Say, and How to Be an Ally
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]]> Light from Uncommon Stars 56179360
Shizuka Satomi made a deal with the to escape damnation, she must entice seven other violin prodigies to trade their souls for success. She has already delivered six. When Katrina Nguyen, a young transgender runaway, catches Shizuka's ear with her wild talent, Shizuka can almost feel the curse lifting. She's found her final candidate. But in a donut shop off a bustling highway in the San Gabriel Valley, Shizuka meets Lan Tran, retired starship captain, interstellar refugee, and mother of four. Shizuka doesn't have time for crushes or coffee dates, what with her very soul on the line, but Lan's kind smile and eyes like stars might just redefine a soul's worth. And maybe something as small as a warm donut is powerful enough to break a curse as vast as the California coastline. As the lives of these three women become entangled by chance and fate, a story of magic, identity, curses, and hope begins, and a family worth crossing the universe for is found.
At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 372 Ryka Aoki 1250789060 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.03 2021 Light from Uncommon Stars
author: Ryka Aoki
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]]> Semiosis (Semiosis, #1) 35018907 In this character driven novel of first contact by debut author Sue Burke, human survival hinges on an bizarre alliance.

Only mutual communication can forge an alliance with the planet's sentient species and prove that mammals are more than tools.

Forced to land on a planet they aren't prepared for, human colonists rely on their limited resources to survive. The planet provides a lush but inexplicable landscape--trees offer edible, addictive fruit one day and poison the next, while the ruins of an alien race are found entwined in the roots of a strange plant. Conflicts between generations arise as they struggle to understand one another and grapple with an unknowable alien intellect.]]> 333 Sue Burke 076539135X P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.85 2018 Semiosis (Semiosis, #1)
author: Sue Burke
name: P.
average rating: 3.85
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]]> The Woods Are Always Watching 51553705 A companion to There's Someone Inside Your House.

Bears aren't the only predators in these woods.

Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but at least they had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they have one last chance to be together—a three-day hike deep into the woods of the Pisgah National Forest.

Simmering tensions lead to a detour off the trail and straight into a waking nightmare; and then into something far worse. Something that will test them in horrifying ways.]]> 224 Stephanie Perkins 0525426027 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.06 2021 The Woods Are Always Watching
author: Stephanie Perkins
name: P.
average rating: 3.06
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]]> The Atmospherians 55711682 A novel about two best friends—a disgraced influencer and a struggling actor—who form The Atmosphere, a cult designed to reform problematic men.

Sasha Marcus was once the epitome of contemporary success: an internet sensation, social media darling, and a creator of a high profile wellness brand for women. But a confrontation with an abusive troll has taken a horrifying turn, and now she’s at rock bottom: canceled and doxxed online, fired from her waitress job and fortressed in her apartment while men’s rights protestors rage outside. All that once glittered now condemns.

Sasha confides in her oldest childhood friend, Dyson—a failed actor with a history of body issues—who hatches a plan for Sasha to restore her reputation by becoming the face of his new business venture, The Atmosphere: a rehabilitation community for men. Based in an abandoned summer camp and billed as a workshop for job training, it is actually a rigorous program designed to rid men of their toxic masculinity and heal them physically, emotionally, and socially. Sasha has little choice but to accept. But what horrors await her as the resident female leader of a crew of washed up, desperate men? And what exactly does Dyson want?]]> 304 Isle McElroy 1982158301 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.45 2021 The Atmospherians
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name: P.
average rating: 3.45
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]]> Smithy (Smithy #1) 55904665
In the tumultuous summer of 1974, in the shadowy rooms of a rundown mansion in Rhode Island, renowned psychologist Dr. Piers Preis-Herald brings together a group of seven collegiate researchers to study the inner lives of man’s closest relative―the primate. They set out to teach their subject, who would eventually be known to the world as Smithy, American Sign Language. But as the summer deepens and the history of the mansion manifests, the messages signed by their research subject become increasing spectral.

Nearly twenty-five years after the Smithy Project ended in tragedy at Trevor Hall, questions Was Smithy a hoax? A clever mimic? A Rorschach projection of humanity’s greatest hopes and fears? Or was he indeed what devotees of metaphysics have claimed for so a link between our world and the next?]]> 520 Amanda Desiree 1950301214 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.63 2021 Smithy (Smithy #1)
author: Amanda Desiree
name: P.
average rating: 3.63
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]]> <![CDATA[There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job]]> 52692515 Convenience Store Woman meets My Year of Rest and Relaxation in this strange, compelling, darkly funny tale of one woman's search for meaning in the modern workplace.

A young woman walks into an employment agency and requests a job that has the following traits: it is close to her home, and it requires no reading, no writing – and ideally, very little thinking.

She is sent to a nondescript office building where she is tasked with watching the hidden-camera feed of an author suspected of storing contraband goods. But observing someone for hours on end can be so inconvenient and tiresome. How will she stay awake? When can she take delivery of her favourite brand of tea? And, perhaps more importantly – how did she find herself in this situation in the first place?

As she moves from job to job, writing bus adverts for shops that mysteriously disappear, and composing advice for rice cracker wrappers that generate thousands of devoted followers, it becomes increasingly apparent that she's not searching for the easiest job at all, but something altogether more meaningful...]]> 416 Kikuko Tsumura 1526622246 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.61 2015 There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job
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name: P.
average rating: 3.61
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]]> <![CDATA[Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice]]> 33517784 A journalist-turned-private investigator returns to the case that has haunted her for decades--a death row execution that may have killed an innocent man--in a deeply personal quest to sort truth from lies.

In 1990, Ellen McGarrahan was a young reporter for the Miami Herald when she covered the execution of Jesse Tafero, a man convicted of murdering two police officers. When it later emerged that Tafero may not have committed the murders, McGarrahan became haunted by that grisly execution--and appalled by her unquestioning acceptance of the state's version of events.

Decades later, in the midst of her successful career as a private investigator, McGarrahan finally decides to find out the truth of what really happened. Her investigation takes her back to Florida, where she combs through court files and interviews everyone involved in the case. She plunges back into the Miami of the 1960s and 1970s, where gangsters and drug kingpins and beautiful women inhabit a dangerous world of nightclubs, speed boats, and cartels. Violence is everywhere. The tragedy of the two murdered police officers, she discovers, is only the start of the mystery. But even as McGarrahan circles closer to the truth, the story of guilt and innocence becomes more complex. She gradually discovers that she hasn't been alone in her need for closure, because whenever a human life is forcibly taken--by bullet, or by electric chair--the reckoning is long and difficult for all.]]> 368 Ellen McGarrahan 0812998669 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 3.51 2021 Two Truths and a Lie: A Murder, a Private Investigator, and Her Search for Justice
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]]> <![CDATA[We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice]]> 56019003
What if social transformation and liberation isn't about waiting for someone else to come along and save us? What if ordinary people have the power to collectively free ourselves? In this timely collection of essays and interviews, Mariame Kaba reflects on the deep work of abolition and transformative political struggle.

With chapters on seeking justice beyond the punishment system, transforming how we deal with harm and accountability, and finding hope in collective struggle for abolition, Kaba's work is deeply rooted in the relentless belief that we can fundamentally change the world. As Kaba writes, "Nothing that we do that is worthwhile is done alone."]]> 240 Mariame Kaba 164259525X P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.65 2021 We Do This 'til We Free Us: Abolitionist Organizing and Transforming Justice
author: Mariame Kaba
name: P.
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]]> <![CDATA[Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories]]> 54785544 A virtuosic debut collection that roves across genres and styles, by a finalist for the Caine Prize


In her powerful, genre-bending debut story collection, Nana Nkweti’s virtuosity is on full display as she mixes deft realism with clever inversions of genre. In the Caine Prize finalist story “It Takes a Village, Some Say,” Nkweti skewers racial prejudice and the practice of international adoption, delivering a sly tale about a teenage girl who leverages her adoptive parents to fast-track her fortunes. In “The Devil Is a Liar,” a pregnant pastor’s wife struggles with the collision of western Christianity and her mother’s traditional Cameroonian belief system as she worries about her unborn child.


In other stories, Nkweti vaults past realism, upending genre expectations in a satirical romp about a jaded PR professional trying to spin a zombie outbreak in West Africa, and in a mermaid tale about a Mami Wata who forgoes her power by remaining faithful to a fisherman she loves. In between these two ends of the spectrum there’s everything from an aspiring graphic novelist at a comic con to a murder investigation driven by statistics to a story organized by the changing hairstyles of the main character.


Pulling from mystery, horror, realism, myth, and graphic novels, Nkweti showcases the complexity and vibrance of characters whose lives span Cameroonian and American cultures. A dazzling, inventive debut, Walking on Cowrie Shells announces the arrival of a superlative new voice.]]> 176 Nana Nkweti 1644450542 P. 0 3.78 2021 Walking on Cowrie Shells: Stories
author: Nana Nkweti
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average rating: 3.78
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]]> <![CDATA[All Our Hidden Gifts (All Our Hidden Gifts, #1)]]> 44779795 Maeve’s strangely astute tarot readings make her the talk of the school, until a classmate draws a chilling and unfamiliar card—and then disappears.

After Maeve finds a pack of tarot cards while cleaning out a closet during her in-school suspension, she quickly becomes the most sought-after diviner at St. Bernadette’s Catholic school. But when Maeve’s ex–best friend, Lily, draws an unsettling card called The Housekeeper that Maeve has never seen before, the session devolves into a heated argument that ends with Maeve wishing aloud that Lily would disappear. When Lily isn’t at school the next Monday, Maeve learns her ex-friend has vanished without a trace.

Shunned by her classmates and struggling to preserve a fledgling romance with Lily’s gender-fluid sibling, Roe, Maeve must dig deep into her connection with the cards to search for clues the police cannot find—even if they lead to the terrifying Housekeeper herself. Set in an Irish town where the church’s tight hold has loosened and new freedoms are trying to take root, this sharply contemporary story is witty, gripping, and tinged with mysticism.]]> 384 Caroline O'Donoghue 1536213942 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.95 2021 All Our Hidden Gifts (All Our Hidden Gifts, #1)
author: Caroline O'Donoghue
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average rating: 3.95
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]]> <![CDATA[The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred]]> 54455629
In? The Disordered Cosmos , Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein shares her love for physics, from the Standard Model of Particle Physics and what lies beyond it, to the physics of melanin in skin, to the latest theories of dark matter—along with a perspective informed by history, politics, and the wisdom of Star Trek .?

One of the leading physicists of her generation, Dr. Chanda Prescod-Weinstein is also one of fewer than one hundred Black American women to earn a PhD from a department of physics. Her vision of the cosmos is vibrant, buoyantly nontraditional, and grounded in Black and queer feminist lineages.?

Dr. Prescod-Weinstein urges us to recognize how science, like most fields, is rife with racism, misogyny, and other forms of oppression. She lays out a bold new approach to science and society, beginning?with the belief that we all have a fundamental right to know and love the night sky.? The Disordered Cosmos ?dreams into existence a world that allows everyone to experience and understand the wonders of the universe.]]> 320 Chanda Prescod-Weinstein 1541724704 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.11 2021 The Disordered Cosmos: A Journey into Dark Matter, Spacetime, and Dreams Deferred
author: Chanda Prescod-Weinstein
name: P.
average rating: 4.11
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]]> <![CDATA[Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)]]> 36187110
Magic marked Miles Singer for suffering the day he was born, doomed either to be enslaved to his family's interest or to be committed to a witches' asylum. He went to war to escape his destiny and came home a different man, but he couldn’t leave his past behind. The war between Aeland and Laneer leaves men changed, strangers to their friends and family, but even after faking his own death and reinventing himself as a doctor at a cash-strapped veterans' hospital, Miles can’t hide what he truly is.

When a fatally poisoned patient exposes Miles’ healing gift and his witchmark, he must put his anonymity and freedom at risk to investigate his patient’s murder. To find the truth he’ll need to rely on the family he despises, and on the kindness of the most gorgeous man he’s ever seen.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 318 C.L. Polk 0765398974 P. 0 fictive 3.86 2018 Witchmark (The Kingston Cycle, #1)
author: C.L. Polk
name: P.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2018
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]]> <![CDATA[The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)]]> 61886
It is an assignment Cazaril dreads, for it will ultimately lead him to the place he fears most, the royal court of Cardegoss, where the powerful enemies, who once placed him in chains, now occupy lofty positions. In addition to the traitorous intrigues of villains, Cazaril and the Royesse Iselle, are faced with a sinister curse that hangs like a sword over the entire blighted House of Chalion and all who stand in their circle. Only by employing the darkest, most forbidden of magics, can Cazaril hope to protect his royal charge—an act that will mark the loyal, damaged servant as a tool of the miraculous, and trap him, flesh and soul, in a maze of demonic paradox, damnation, and death.]]> 490 Lois McMaster Bujold 0007133618 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.14 2001 The Curse of Chalion (World of the Five Gods, #1)
author: Lois McMaster Bujold
name: P.
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2001
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]]> A Matter of Oaths 2481159 234 Helen S. Wright 0445209836 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.75 1988 A Matter of Oaths
author: Helen S. Wright
name: P.
average rating: 3.75
book published: 1988
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]]> <![CDATA[Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)]]> 50666983
It’s 1942 and Willowjean “Will” Parker is a scrappy circus runaway whose knife-throwing skills have just saved the life of New York’s best, and most unorthodox, private investigator, Lillian Pentecost. When the dapper detective summons Will a few days later, she doesn’t expect to be offered a life-changing proposition: Lillian’s multiple sclerosis means she can’t keep up with her old case load alone, so she wants to hire Will to be her right-hand woman. In return, Will is to receive a salary, room and board, and training in Lillian’s very particular art of investigation.

Three years later, Will and Lillian are on the Collins case: Abigail Collins was found bludgeoned to death with a crystal ball following a big, boozy Halloween party at her home—her body slumped in the same chair where her steel magnate husband shot himself the year before. With rumors flying that Abigail was bumped off by the vengeful spirit of her husband (who else could have gotten inside the locked room?), the family has tasked the detectives with finding answers where the police have failed.

But that’s easier said than done in a case that involves messages from the dead, a seductive spiritualist, and Becca Collins—the beautiful daughter of the deceased, who Will quickly starts falling for. When Will and Becca’s relationship dances beyond the professional, Will finds herself in dangerous territory, and discovers she may have become the murderer’s next target.]]> 321 Stephen Spotswood 0385546556 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.96 2020 Fortune Favors the Dead (Pentecost and Parker, #1)
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average rating: 3.96
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]]> <![CDATA[Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis]]> 49150999 Paper Bullets is the first book to tell the history of an audacious anti-Nazi campaign undertaken by an unlikely pair: two French women, Lucy Schwob and Suzanne Malherbe, who drew on their skills as Parisian avant-garde artists to write and distribute “paper bullets”—wicked insults against Hitler, calls to rebel, and subversive fictional dialogues designed to demoralize Nazi troops occupying their adopted home on the British Channel Island of Jersey. Devising their own PSYOPS campaign, they slipped their notes into soldier’s pockets or tucked them inside newsstand magazines.

Hunted by the secret field police, Lucy and Suzanne were finally betrayed in 1944, when the Germans imprisoned them, and tried them in a court martial, sentencing them to death for their actions. Ultimately they survived, but even in jail, they continued to fight the Nazis by reaching out to other prisoners and spreading a message of hope.

Better remembered today by their artist names, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, the couple’s actions were even more courageous because of who they were: lesbian partners known for cross-dressing and creating the kind of gender-bending work that the Nazis would come to call “degenerate art.” In addition, Lucy was half Jewish, and they had communist affiliations in Paris, where they attended political rallies with Surrealists and socialized with artists like Gertrude Stein.

Paper Bullets is a compelling World War II story that has not been told before, about the galvanizing power of art, and of resistance.]]> 336 Jeffrey H. Jackson 161620916X P. 0 to-read, nonfic 3.74 2020 Paper Bullets: Two Artists Who Risked Their Lives to Defy the Nazis
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]]> Now You're One of Us 856275 Blood Is Thicker Than Tears

In the tradition of Daphne du Maurier's Rebecca and Ira Levin's Rosemary's Baby, here is a new classic about the bride who's no longer sure what to think. All families have their own rituals, secrets, and credos, like a miniature religious cult; these quirks may elicit the mirth or mild alarm of guests, but the matter is rather more serious if you're marrying into a household. If it's a Japanese one with a history, then brace yourself: some surprising truths lurk around the corner.

The Shitos: eight people, four generations, one household, with young newlywed Noriko joining the clan to make nine. Her husband Kazuhito adores her to distraction and her in-laws seem to be the most good-natured people imaginable. The family owns a thriving business and lives on a sprawling estate in the suburbs of Tokyo where they've created a floral paradise. Once a series of strange events and inconsistencies trigger Noriko's suspicions, however, reality becomes inseparable from her own darkest imaginings.]]> 239 Asa Nonami 1934287032 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.31 1993 Now You're One of Us
author: Asa Nonami
name: P.
average rating: 3.31
book published: 1993
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]]> A Nest of Nightmares 753143
The house had that kind of effect on people. It felt cosy, lived-in, though it had been empty for many years. Oddly, there was rubbish everywhere, but there was no other sign of a squatter's brief inhabitation.

And though the windows were unbroken. the doors securely locked, Pam could never entirely rid herself of the thought that she and her sister might not be alone in the house...

One of 13 terrifying tales of terror...]]> 208 Lisa Tuttle 0722186495 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.02 1986 A Nest of Nightmares
author: Lisa Tuttle
name: P.
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1986
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]]> <![CDATA[Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories]]> 44222604
Ages- 16+

Includes some explicit content.]]> 184 Aviaq Johnston 1772272140 P. 0 3.69 2019 Taaqtumi: An Anthology of Arctic Horror Stories
author: Aviaq Johnston
name: P.
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2019
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]]> After Delores 285274 158 Sarah Schulman 0452262283 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.86 1988 After Delores
author: Sarah Schulman
name: P.
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1988
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]]> Before the Ruins 50403527 A gripping, multilayered debut in the tradition of Tana French and Donna Tartt about four friends, an empty manor, and a night that will follow them for the rest of their lives

It's the summer of 1996 and school's out forever for Andy, her boyfriend Marcus, her best friend Peter, and Em. When Andy's alcoholic mother predicts the apocalypse, the four teenagers decide to see out the end of the world at a deserted manor house, the site of a historic unsolved mystery. There they meet David—charming and unreliable, he seems to have appeared out of nowhere.

David presents an irresistible lure for both Andy and Peter and complicates the dynamics of their lifelong friendship. When the group learns that a diamond necklace, stolen fifty years ago, might still be somewhere on the manor grounds, the Game—half treasure hunt, half friendly deception—begins. But the Game becomes much bigger than the necklace, growing to encompass years of secrets, lies, and, ultimately, one terrible betrayal.

Meticulously plotted and gorgeously written, Before the Ruins is a page-turner of the highest order about the sealed-off places in our pasts and the parts of ourselves waiting to be retrieved from them.]]> 288 Victoria Gosling 1250759153 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.05 2021 Before the Ruins
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average rating: 3.05
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]]> <![CDATA[Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession]]> 48613296 The Real Lolita.

The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable.

Acclaimed author of The Real Lolita and editor of?Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s?(Library of America) and?Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives?(Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today.? Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV show The Act and?Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism.? There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.

???]]> 416 Sarah Weinman 0062839888 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 3.57 2020 Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit, and Obsession
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]]> <![CDATA[Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia]]> 36546595 In a devastating and urgent work of investigative journalism, Pulitzer Prize-winner, Chris Hamby, uncovers the tragic resurgence of black lung disease in Appalachia, its Big Coal cover-up, and the resilient mining communities who refuse to back down.

Decades have passed since black lung disease was recognized as a national disgrace and Congress was pushed to take legislative action. Since then, however, not much has changed. Big coal companies-along with their allies in the legal and medical professions-have continually flouted the law and exposed miners to deadly amounts of coal dust, while also systematically denying benefits to miners who suffer and die because of their jobs. Indeed, these men and their families, with little access to education, legal resources, and other employment options, have long been fighting to wrench even modest compensation and medical costs from our nation's biggest mining interests-all to combat a disease that could have been eradicated years ago.

Tracing their heroic stories back to the very beginning, Chris Hamby, who won a Pulitzer Prize for his reporting on this issue, gives us a deeply troubling yet ultimately triumphant work that promises to do for Black Lung what Beth Macy did for the opioid epidemic. From corporate offices and mine shafts, to hospital beds and rural clinics, Soul Full of Coal Dust becomes a legal and medical thriller that brilliantly traces how a powerless band of laborers-alongside a small group of lawyers and doctors, often working out of their homes or in rural clinics and tiny offices-challenged one of the world's most powerful forces, Big Coal, and won.

Full of the rich and complex atmosphere of Appalachia and packed with tales of those who have toiled in the mines of West Virginia, Soul Full of Coal Dust is a necessary and timely book about injustice and resistance.]]> 436 Chris Hamby 0316299472 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.30 2020 Soul Full of Coal Dust: A Fight for Breath and Justice in Appalachia
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name: P.
average rating: 4.30
book published: 2020
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]]> Notes of a Crocodile 31395589 Notes of a Crocodile depicts the coming-of-age of a group of queer misfits discovering love, friendship, and artistic affinity while hardly studying at Taiwan's most prestigious university. Told through the eyes of an anonymous lesbian narrator nicknamed Lazi, Qiu Miaojin's cult classic novel is a postmodern pastiche of diaries, vignettes, mash notes, aphorisms, exegesis, and satire by an incisive prose stylist and countercultural icon.

Afflicted by her fatalistic attraction to Shui Ling, an older woman, Lazi turns for support to a circle of friends that includes a rich kid turned criminal and his troubled, self-destructive gay lover, as well as a bored, mischievous overachiever and her alluring slacker artist girlfriend.

Illustrating a process of liberation from the strictures of gender through radical self-inquiry, Notes of a Crocodile is a poignant masterpiece of social defiance by a singular voice in contemporary Chinese literature.]]> 242 Qiu Miaojin 168137076X P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.84 1994 Notes of a Crocodile
author: Qiu Miaojin
name: P.
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1994
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]]> The Iron Dragon's Daughter 1122494
Combining alchemy and technology, a coming-of-age story like no other, The Iron Dragon’s Daughter takes place against a dystopic mindscape of dark challenges and class struggles that force Jane to make costly decisions at every turn.]]> 424 Michael Swanwick 0380720981 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.71 1993 The Iron Dragon's Daughter
author: Michael Swanwick
name: P.
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1993
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]]> <![CDATA[Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies (Handheld Fantasy Classics, 4)]]> 49336579 Kingdoms of Elfin in October 2018, the remaining four Elfin stories are gathered together with the remarkable forgotten tales of The Cat's Cradle Book (1940), eighty years after its first publication.

This is a new selection of Warner's remaining fantasy short stories, collected for a new generation of fantasy enthusiasts and Warner fans. The twenty-three stories in Of Cats and Elfins encompass scholarship (Warner's ground-breaking essay from 1927 on modern Elfinology), black humour, the Gothic, and the bizarrely anthropomorphic cats of The Cat's Cradle Book, which reflect Warner's preoccupation with the dark forces at large in Europe in the later 1930s.

The Cat's Cradle opens with a story about the talking cats that die of a murrain in a manor based on Warner's own Norfolk home with Valentine Ackland. 'Bluebeard's Daughter' narrates the adventures of Bluebeard's daughter by his third wife, and her propensity for locked doors. Warner mixes fables and myths with storytelling traditions old and new to express her unease with modern society, and its cruelties and injustices.]]> 226 Sylvia Townsend Warner 1912766159 P. 0 3.73 2020 Of Cats and Elfins: Short Tales and Fantasies (Handheld Fantasy Classics, 4)
author: Sylvia Townsend Warner
name: P.
average rating: 3.73
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]]> The Night Wanderer 1190695 215 Drew Hayden Taylor 1554510996 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.46 2007 The Night Wanderer
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name: P.
average rating: 3.46
book published: 2007
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]]> Dance on Saturday 53444256
Dance on Saturday is a collection of stories about transformation, loss, and human nature. Church-going immortals tend life-extending fruit. Swarms of deadly wasps engineered by a polymath sorcerer battle killer snails. Geese take human form and must survive juvenile detention. A high school, high-stakes volleyball game turns demonic. Heroes and monsters people these exuberant, magical tales.]]> 324 Elwin Cotman P. 0 3.38 2020 Dance on Saturday
author: Elwin Cotman
name: P.
average rating: 3.38
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]]> <![CDATA[The Big Book of Modern Fantasy]]> 50165140 From Ann and Jeff VanderMeer comes The Big Book of Modern Fantasy a true horde of tales sure to delight fans, scholars -- even the greediest of dragons. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL.

Step through a shimmering portal . . . a worn wardrobe door . . . a schism in sky . . . into a bold new age of fantasy. When worlds beyond worlds became a genre unto itself. From the swinging sixties to the strange, strange seventies, the over-the-top eighties to the gnarly nineties--and beyond, into the twenty-first century--the VanderMeers have found the stories and the writers from around the world that reinvented and revitalized the fantasy genre after World War II. The stories in this collection represent twenty-two different countries, including Russia, Argentina, Nigeria, Columbia, Pakistan, Turkey, Finland, Sweden, China, the Philippines, and the Czech Republic. Five have never before been translated into English.

From Jorge Luis Borges to Ursula K. Le Guin, Michael Moorcock to Angela Carter, Terry Pratchett to Stephen King, the full range and glory of the fantastic are on display in these ninety-one stories in which dragons soar, giants stomp, and human children should still think twice about venturing alone into the dark forest.

Completing Ann and Jeff VanderMeer's definitive The Big Book of Classic Fantasy, this companion volume to takes the genre into the twenty-first century with ninety-one astonishing, mind-bending stories.]]> 896 Ann VanderMeer 0525563865 P. 0 3.78 2020 The Big Book of Modern Fantasy
author: Ann VanderMeer
name: P.
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2020
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]]> <![CDATA[The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories]]> 28009453 247 Martin Munro 9766405603 P. 0 3.84 2015 The Haunted Tropics: Caribbean Ghost Stories
author: Martin Munro
name: P.
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2015
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]]> The Red Right Hand 52818941
As he searches for answers, Riddle discovers a series of bizarre coincidences that leave him questioning his sanity and his innocence. After all, he too walked those wild, deserted roads the night of the murder, stranded and struggling to get home to New York City. The more he reflects, his own memories become increasingly uncertain, arresting him with nightmarish intensity and veering into the irrational territory of pure terror - that is until an utterly satisfying solution emerges from the depths, logical enough to send the reader back through the narrative to see the clues they missed.

An extraordinary whodunnit that is as puzzling as it is terrifying, Joel Townsley Rogers’s The Red Right Hand is a surreal masterpiece that defies classification. It was identified by crime fiction scholar Jack Adrian as “one of the dozen or so finest mystery novels of the 20th century.”]]> 288 Joel Townsley Rogers 1613161654 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.92 1945 The Red Right Hand
author: Joel Townsley Rogers
name: P.
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1945
rating: 0
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]]> A Cosmology of Monsters 43506916
His father saw them—and built a shrine to them with The Wandering Dark, an immersive horror experience that the whole family operates.

His practical mother has caught glimpses of terrors but refuses to believe—too focused on keeping the family from falling apart.

And his eldest sister, the dramatic and vulnerable Sydney, won’t admit to seeing anything but the beckoning glow of the spotlight . . . until it swallows her up.

Noah Turner sees monsters. But, unlike his family, Noah chooses to let them in .]]> 336 Shaun Hamill 152474767X P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.75 2019 A Cosmology of Monsters
author: Shaun Hamill
name: P.
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2019
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]]> The Prey of Gods 32075842
A new hallucinogenic drug sweeping the country . . .

An emerging AI uprising . . .

And an ancient demigoddess hellbent on regaining her former status by preying on the blood and sweat (but mostly blood) of every human she encounters.

It's up to a young Zulu girl powerful enough to destroy her entire township, a queer teen plagued with the ability to control minds, a pop diva with serious daddy issues, and a politician with even more serious mommy issues to band together to ensure there's a future left to worry about.]]> 381 Nicky Drayden 0062493035 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.79 2017 The Prey of Gods
author: Nicky Drayden
name: P.
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2017
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]]> Hench (Hench, #1) 49867430
?As a temp, she’s just a cog in the machine. But when she finally gets a promising assignment, everything goes very wrong, and an encounter with the so-called “hero” leaves her badly injured.? And, to her horror, compared to the other bodies strewn about, she’s the lucky one.

So, of course, then she gets laid off.

With no money and no mobility, with only her anger and internet research acumen, she discovers her suffering at the hands of a hero is far from unique. When people start listening to the story that her data tells, she realizes she might not be as powerless as she thinks.

Because the key to everything is data: knowing how to collate it, how to manipulate it, and how to weaponize it. By tallying up the human cost these caped forces of nature wreak upon the world, she discovers that the line between good and evil is mostly marketing.? And with social media and viral videos, she can control that appearance.

It’s not too long before she’s employed once more, this time by one of the worst villains on earth. As she becomes an increasingly valuable lieutenant, she might just save the world.

A sharp, witty, modern debut, Hench explores the individual cost of justice through a fascinating mix of Millennial office politics, heroism measured through data science, body horror, and a profound misunderstanding of quantum mechanics.?]]> 403 Natalie Zina Walschots 0062978578 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.98 2020 Hench (Hench, #1)
author: Natalie Zina Walschots
name: P.
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2020
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]]> Creeping Jenny 51868345 The third book in Jeff Noon's widely acclaimed 'Nyquist Mysteries' find our protagonist caught up in a new mystery that delves into nightmares, Saints and the answer to his father's disappearance

Nyquist finds himself in a village where everyday is a different type of nightmare and whose bizarre rules are governed by whichever Saint rules that day. In between days of no talking, no going outside and only telling lies, Nyquist must find the answer to the mystery he could never solve; the disappearance of his father.]]> 378 Jeff Noon 0857668404 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.03 2020 Creeping Jenny
author: Jeff Noon
name: P.
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2020
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]]> Deeplight 44647479 The gods of The Myriad were as real as the coastlines and currents, and as merciless as the winds and whirlpools. Now the gods are dead, but their remains are stirring beneath the waves . . .

On the streets of the Island of Lady's Crave live 14-year-old street urchins Hark and his best friend Jelt. They are scavengers: diving for relics of the gods, desperate for anything they can sell. But there is something dangerous in the deep waters of the undersea, calling to someone brave enough to retrieve it.

When the waves try to claim Jelt, Hark will do anything to save him. Even if it means compromising not just who Jelt is, but what he is . . .]]> 416 Frances Hardinge 1509836950 P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.08 2019 Deeplight
author: Frances Hardinge
name: P.
average rating: 4.08
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]]> <![CDATA[デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 9 (Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, #9)]]> 52380159

「私はあなたの、絶対なの」

别の「平行世界」から来た、
タイムトラベラーである凰兰。
そして、彼女の记忆を辿る大场とマコト。

8年前、凰兰と门出は「侵略者」と出会う。
门出は、次第に『侵略者』の力を使い
己の正义を振りかざし始める。

止まらない、门出の暴走の数々。
そして行き着いてしまった结末、
悲しき真実とは――!?闭闭> 196 Inio Asano 4098605201 P. 0 to-read, comics, manga 4.54 2019 デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 9 (Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, #9)
author: Inio Asano
name: P.
average rating: 4.54
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 8 (Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, #8)]]> 42595210
「凰兰は别の并行世界から来たタイムトラベラーなんだ」
大叶から衝撃の告白を受けたマコト。
二人は大叶の持つ装置を使い、凰兰の记忆を辿る旅に出る。

现在から8年前――
そこには今とは异なる小学4年生の凰兰と门出がいた。
塾の夏合宿に向かった二人は彼の地で偶然、
『侵略者』の调査员と出会う。

凰兰、门出、そして『侵略者』の
歪な日常から、物语は始まるーー

「8?31」から数年。絶望が麻痺した世界を生きる少女达のデストピア青春谱。待望の第8集!!闭闭> 164 Inio Asano 4098603543 P. 0 to-read, comics, manga 4.40 2019 デッドデッドデーモンズデデデデデストラクション 8 (Dead Dead Demon's Dededede Destruction, #8)
author: Inio Asano
name: P.
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2019
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]]> <![CDATA[The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 9: Okay]]> 42835876
Collects THE WICKED +THE DIVINE #40-45]]> 168 Kieron Gillen 1534312498 P. 0 to-read, comics 4.22 2019 The Wicked + The Divine, Vol. 9: Okay
author: Kieron Gillen
name: P.
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2019
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]]> Sodom Road Exit 37514014 Sodom Road Exit might read like a conventional paranormal thriller, except that Starla is far from a conventional protagonist. Where others might feel fear, Starla feels lust and queer desire. When others might run, Starla draws the horror nearer. And in turn, she draws a host of capricious characters toward her--all of them challenged to seek answers beyond their own temporal realities. Sodom Road Exit, the second novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Amber Dawn, is a book that's alive with both desire and dread.]]> 404 Amber Dawn 1551527162 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.96 2018 Sodom Road Exit
author: Amber Dawn
name: P.
average rating: 3.96
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]]> Experimental Film 25867895 352 Gemma Files 1771483490 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.52 2015 Experimental Film
author: Gemma Files
name: P.
average rating: 3.52
book published: 2015
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]]> <![CDATA[Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1)]]> 102880 265 Elizabeth Hand 1931520216 P. 0 to-read, fictive 3.77 2007 Generation Loss (Cass Neary, #1)
author: Elizabeth Hand
name: P.
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2007
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]]> <![CDATA[Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)]]> 4166120 160 Thea Hillman 1933149248 P. 0 to-read, nonfic 4.06 2007 Intersex (For Lack of a Better Word)
author: Thea Hillman
name: P.
average rating: 4.06
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]]> <![CDATA[Treaty Shirts: October 2034―A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation]]> 27163245
Gerald Vizenor creates masterful, truthful, surreal, and satirical fiction similar to the speculative fiction of Margaret Atwood and Neil Gaiman. In this imagined future, seven natives are exiled from federal sectors that have replaced federal reservations; they pursue the liberty of an egalitarian government on an island in Lake of the Woods. These seven narrators, known only by native nicknames, are related to characters in Vizenor's other novels and stories. Vizenor was the principal writer of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation, and this novel is a rich and critical commentary on the abrogation of the treaty that established the White Earth Reservation in 1867, and a vivid visualization of the futuristic continuation of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation, in 2034.]]> 148 Gerald Vizenor 081957628X P. 0 to-read, fictive 4.27 2016 Treaty Shirts: October 2034―A Familiar Treatise on the White Earth Nation
author: Gerald Vizenor
name: P.
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2016
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