en-US Thu, 17 Apr 2025 23:16:47 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 13235961 Golden Age SF meets Golden Age Crime in this British Science Fiction Award winner for best novel, from the author of Swiftly, New Model Army, and Yellow Blue Tibia

Jack Glass is the murderer—we know this from the start. Yet as this extraordinary novel unfolds, readers will be astonished to discover how he committed the murders and by the end of the book, their sympathies for the killer will be fully engaged. Riffing on the tropes of crime fiction (the country house murder, the locked room mystery) and imbued with the feel of golden age SF, this is another bravura performance from Roberts. Whatever games he plays with the genre, whatever questions he asks of the reader, Roberts never loses sight of the need to entertain. Filled with wonderfully gruesome moments and liberal doses of sly humor, this novel is built around three gripping HowDunnits that challenge notions of crime, punishment, power, and freedom.]]> 373 Adam Roberts 0575127627 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.69 2012
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average rating: 3.69
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]]> 101869 Bob Howard is a low-level techie working for a super-secret government agency. While his colleagues are out saving the world, Bob's under a desk restoring lost data. His world was dull and safe - but then he went and got Noticed.

Now, Bob is up to his neck in spycraft, parallel universes, dimension-hopping terrorists, monstrous elder gods and the end of the world. Only one thing is certain: it will take more than a full system reboot to sort this mess out ...]]> 345 Charles Stross 0441013651 Jonathan 4 3.90 2004
author: Charles Stross
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2004
rating: 4
read at: 2015/04/19
date added: 2025/04/15
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]]> 205478762 The Overstory at the height of his skills. Twelve-year-old Evie Beaulieu sinks to the bottom of a swimming pool in Montreal strapped to one of the world’s first aqualungs. Ina Aroita grows up on naval bases across the Pacific with art as her only home. Two polar opposites at an elite Chicago high school bond over a three-thousand-year-old board game; Rafi Young will get lost in literature, while Todd Keane’s work will lead to a startling AI breakthrough.

They meet on the history-scarred island of Makatea in French Polynesia, whose deposits of phosphorus once helped to feed the world. Now the tiny atoll has been chosen for humanity’s next adventure: a plan to send floating, autonomous cities out onto the open sea. But first, the island’s residents must vote to greenlight the project or turn the seasteaders away.

Set in the world’s largest ocean, this awe-filled book explores that last wild place we have yet to colonize in a still-unfolding oceanic game, and interweaves beautiful writing, rich characterization, profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity in a way only Richard Powers can.]]> 381 Richard Powers 1324086033 Jonathan 5 4.16 2024
author: Richard Powers
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/13
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]]> 57148 445 C.J. Cherryh 0879979526 Jonathan 5 2025-read, sf 3.80 1983
author: C.J. Cherryh
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.80
book published: 1983
rating: 5
read at: 2025/04/02
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]]> 226922247 400 Jordan Whiteman 1915148111 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.48
author: Jordan Whiteman
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.48
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]]> 63241875 From bestselling author Susan Casey, an awe-inspiring portrait of the mysterious world beneath the waves, and the men and women who seek to uncover its secrets

For all of human history, the deep ocean has been a source of wonder and terror, an unknown realm that evoked a singular, compelling question: What’s down there? Unable to answer this for centuries, people believed the deep was a sinister realm of fiendish creatures and deadly peril. But now, cutting-edge technologies allow scientists and explorers to dive miles beneath the surface, and we are beginning to understand this strange and exotic underworld: A place of soaring mountains, smoldering volcanoes, and valleys 7,000 feet deeper than Everest is high, where tectonic plates collide and separate, and extraordinary life forms operate under different rules. Far from a dark void, the deep is a vibrant realm that’s home to pink gelatinous predators and shimmering creatures a hundred feet long and ancient animals with glass skeletons and sharks that live for half a millennium—among countless other marvels.

Susan Casey is our premiere chronicler of the aquatic world. For The Underworld she traversed the globe, joining scientists and explorers on dives to the deepest places on the planet, interviewing the marine geologists, marine biologists, and oceanographers who are searching for knowledge in this vast unseen realm. She takes us on a fascinating journey through the history of deep-sea exploration, from the myths and legends of the ancient world to storied shipwrecks we can now reach on the bottom, to the first intrepid bathysphere pilots, to the scientists who are just beginning to understand the mind-blowing complexity and ecological importance of the quadrillions of creatures who live in realms long thought to be devoid of life.

Throughout this journey, she learned how vital the deep is to the future of the planet, and how urgent it is that we understand it in a time of increasing threats from climate change, industrial fishing, pollution, and the mining companies that are also exploring its depths. The Underworld is Susan Casey’s most beautiful and thrilling book yet, a gorgeous evocation of the natural world and a powerful call to arms.]]> 352 Susan Casey 0385545576 Jonathan 0 to-read, aquatica 4.17 2023
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.17
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]]> 211004856 New York Times bestselling author Cory Doctorow returns to the world of Red Team Blues to bring us the origin story of Martin Hench and the most powerful new tool for crime ever the personal computer.

The year is 1986. The city is San Francisco. Here, Martin Hench will invent the forensic accountant--what a bounty hunter is to people, he is to money--but for now he's an MIT dropout odd-jobbing his way around a city still reeling from the invention of a revolutionary new technology that will change everything about crime forever, one we now take completely for granted.

When Marty finds himself hired by Silicon Valley PC startup the Three Wise Men to investigate a group of disgruntled ex-employees who've founded a competitor startup, he quickly realizes he's on the wrong side. Marty ditches the greasy old guys running Three Wise Men without a second thought, utterly infatuated with the electric atmosphere of Magenta Women's Enterprise. Located in the heart of the Mission, this group of brilliant young women found themselves exhausted by the predatory business practices of Three Wise Men and set out to beat them at their own game, making better computers and driving Three Wise Men out of business. But this optimistic startup, fueled by young love and California-style burritos, has no idea the depth of the evil they're seeking to unroot or the risks they run.

In this company-eat-company city, Martin and his friends will be lucky to escape with their lives.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 400 Cory Doctorow 1250865905 Jonathan 5 2025-published, sf, crimes 4.18 2025
author: Cory Doctorow
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2025
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/18
date added: 2025/03/24
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]]> 211200280
A portrait of obsession, Vacated Landscape is both ingeniously fractal, with sentences that are tiny scale models of the larger narrative, and exuberantly byzantine, full of long parentheticals and odd circumlocutions that form a tantalizing labyrinth that sits somewhere between Nabokov’s The Real Life of Sebastian Knight and Kafka’s The Castle.]]> 199 Jean Lahougue 1939663970 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.82 1977
author: Jean Lahougue
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.82
book published: 1977
rating: 0
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]]> 29662066
Galen’s energy-focused research has captured the attention of both Krennic and his foes, making the scientist a crucial pawn in the galactic conflict. But after Krennic rescues Galen, his wife, Lyra, and their young daughter, Jyn, from Separatist kidnappers, the Erso family is deeply in Krennic’s debt. Krennic then offers Galen an extraordinary opportunity: to continue his scientific studies with every resource put utterly at his disposal. While Galen and Lyra believe that his energy research will be used purely in altruistic ways, Krennic has other plans that will finally make the Death Star a reality. Trapped in their benefactor’s tightening grasp, the Ersos must untangle Krennic’s web of deception to save themselves and the galaxy itself.]]> 330 James Luceno 0345511492 Jonathan 5 2025-read, sf, star-wars 3.72 2016
author: James Luceno
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> 427252
But neither of these superhuman warriors is prepared for the strange & harrowing world of mortal life. The Thing That Cries in the Night may well destroy not only their worlds, but all humankind.

As Zelazny did with the Hindu pantheon in the legendary, groundbreaking classic Lord of Light, the master storyteller here breathes new life into the Egyptian gods with another dazzling tale of mythology and imagination.]]> 192 Roger Zelazny 0380011220 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.97 1969
author: Roger Zelazny
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1969
rating: 0
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]]> 202353127 208 Robert Sholl 1789148650 Jonathan 0 4.33
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]]> 37510662
We don’t get visitors. Not out here. We never have.

In Iain Reid’s second haunting, philosophical puzzle of a novel, set in the near-future, Junior and Henrietta live a comfortable, solitary life on their farm, far from the city lights, but in close quarters with each other. One day, a stranger from the city arrives with alarming Junior has been randomly selected to travel far away from the farm...very far away. The most unusual part? Arrangements have already been made so that when he leaves, Henrietta won't have a chance to miss him, because she won't be left alone—not even for a moment. Henrietta will have company. Familiar company.

Told in Reid’s sharp and evocative style, Foe examines the nature of domestic relationships, self-determination, and what it means to be (or not to be) a person. An eerily entrancing page-turner, it churns with unease and suspense from the first words to its shocking finale.]]> 261 Iain Reid 150112742X Jonathan 0 to-read, sf 3.70 2018
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.70
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]]> 44890068 From longtime labor organizer Jane McAlevey, a vital call-to-arms in favor of unions, a key force capable of defending our democracy

For decades, racism, corporate greed, and a skewed political system have been eating away at the social and political fabric of the United States. Yet as McAlevey reminds us, there is one weapon whose effectiveness has been proven repeatedly throughout U.S. history: unions.

In A Collective Bargain, longtime labor organizer, environmental activist, and political campaigner Jane McAlevey makes the case that unions are a key institution capable of taking effective action against today’s super-rich corporate class. Since the 1930s, when unions flourished under New Deal protections, corporations have waged a stealthy and ruthless war against the labor movement. And they’ve been winning.

Until today. Because, as McAlevey shows, unions are making a comeback. Want to reverse the nation’s mounting wealth gap? Put an end to sexual harassment in the workplace? End racial disparities on the job? Negotiate climate justice? Bring back unions.

As McAlevey travels from Pennsylvania hospitals, where nurses are building a new kind of patient-centered unionism, to Silicon Valley, where tech workers have turned to old-fashioned collective action, to the battle being waged by America’s teachers, readers have a ringside seat at the struggles that will shape our country—and our future.]]> 304 Jane F. McAlevey 0062908596 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.31 2020
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.31
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]]> 8701960 Chaos and Genius, now brings us a work just as astonishing and masterly: a revelatory chronicle and meditation that shows how information has become the modern era's defining quality—the blood, the fuel, the vital principle of our world.

The story of information begins in a time profoundly unlike our own, when every thought and utterance vanishes as soon as it is born. From the invention of scripts and alphabets to the long-misunderstood talking drums of Africa, Gleick tells the story of information technologies that changed the very nature of human consciousness. He provides portraits of the key figures contributing to the inexorable development of our modern understanding of information: Charles Babbage, the idiosyncratic inventor of the first great mechanical computer; Ada Byron, the brilliant and doomed daughter of the poet, who became the first true programmer; pivotal figures like Samuel Morse and Alan Turing; and Claude Shannon, the creator of information theory itself.

And then the information age arrives. Citizens of this world become experts willy-nilly: aficionados of bits and bytes. And we sometimes feel we are drowning, swept by a deluge of signs and signals, news and images, blogs and tweets. The Information is the story of how we got here and where we are heading.]]> 527 James Gleick 0375423729 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.02 2011
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2011
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]]> 60784417
Martin Hench is 67 years old, single, and successful in a career stretching back to the beginnings of Silicon Valley. He lives and roams California in a very comfortable fully-furnished touring bus, The Unsalted Hash, that he bought years ago from a fading rock star. He knows his way around good food and fine drink. He likes intelligent women, and they like him back often enough.

Martin is a―contain your excitement―self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He knows computer hardware and software alike, including the ins and outs of high-end databases and the kinds of spreadsheets that are designed to conceal rather than reveal. He’s as comfortable with social media as people a quarter his age, and he’s a world-level expert on the kind of international money-laundering and shell-company chicanery used by Fortune 500 companies, mid-divorce billionaires, and international drug gangs alike. He also knows the Valley like the back of his hand, all the secret histories of charismatic company founders and Sand Hill Road VCs. Because he was there at all the beginnings. He’s not famous, except to the people who matter. He’s made some pretty powerful people happy in his time, and he’s been paid pretty well. It’s been a good life.

Now he’s been roped into a job that’s more dangerous than anything he’s ever agreed to before―and it will take every ounce of his skill to get out alive.]]> 213 Cory Doctorow 1250865840 Jonathan 4 published-2023, 2025-read, sf 3.78 2023
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 4
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]]> 213870084 From award-winning novelist and journalist Omar El Akkad comes a powerful reckoning with what it means to live in the heart of an Empire which doesn’t consider you fully human.

On Oct 25th, after just three weeks of the bombardment of Gaza, Omar El Akkad put out a tweet: “One day, when it’s safe, when there’s no personal downside to calling a thing what it is, when it’s too late to hold anyone accountable, everyone will have always been against this.�� This tweet was viewed over 10 million times.��

One Day Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This chronicles the deep fracture which has occurred for Black, brown, indigenous Americans, as well as the upcoming generation, many of whom had clung to a thread of faith in western ideals, in the idea that their countries, or the countries of their adoption, actually attempted to live up to the values they espouse.��

This book is a reckoning with what it means to live in the west, and what it means to live in a world run by a small group of countries—America, the UK, France and Germany.�� It will be The Fire Next Time for a generation that understands we’re undergoing a shift in the so-called ‘rules-based order,�� a generation that understands the west can no longer be trusted to police and guide the world, or its own cities and campuses. It draws on intimate details of Omar’s own story as an emigrant who grew up believing in the western project, who was catapulted into journalism by the rupture of 9/11.��

This book is his heartsick breakup letter with the west. It is a breakup we are watching all over the U.S., on college campuses, on city streets, and the consequences of this rupture will be felt by all of us. His book is for all the people who want something better than what the west has served up. This is the book for our time.]]> 208 Omar El Akkad 0593804147 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2025-published 4.68 2025
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.68
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]]> 36223860 alternate cover for ISBN 9781250186928

It has a dark past �� one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it to christen itself “Murderbot." But it has only vague memories of the massacre that spawned that title, and it wants to know more.

Teaming up with a Research Transport vessel named ART (you don’t want to know what the “A�� stands for), Murderbot heads to the mining facility where it went rogue.

What it discovers will forever change the way it thinks.]]> 158 Martha Wells Jonathan 5 4.23 2018
author: Martha Wells
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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date added: 2025/02/24
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]]> 32758901 "As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."

In a corporate-dominated space-faring future, planetary missions must be approved and supplied by the Company. For their own safety, exploratory teams are accompanied by Company-supplied security androids. But in a society where contracts are awarded to the lowest bidder, safety isn’t a primary concern.

On a distant planet, a team of scientists is conducting surface tests, shadowed by their Company-supplied ‘droid--a self-aware SecUnit that has hacked its own governor module and refers to itself (though never out loud) as “Murderbot.�� Scornful of humans, Murderbot wants is to be left alone long enough to figure out who it is, but when a neighboring mission goes dark, it's up to the scientists and Murderbot to get to the truth.]]> 144 Martha Wells Jonathan 5 4.11 2017
author: Martha Wells
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2017
rating: 5
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Re-read / listen in response to news Apple TV adaptation release date May 16, 2025
]]> 773072 134 William S. Burroughs 0140083898 Jonathan 3 literature, novel, burroughs 3.56 1985
author: William S. Burroughs
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1985
rating: 3
read at: 2013/01/26
date added: 2025/02/19
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]]> 211004116 The monumental conclusion to Alex Pheby's Cities of the Weft trilogy.

One thousand million infants are dead, and Nathan Treeves is back. He’s become the Master of Waterblack, the City of the Dead.

And Sharli, once a sacrifice, then an assassin, is now a trained God-Killer. She has killed many—but failed in killing Nathan Treeves years ago.

Soon she, and the Women’s Vanguard, will have another chance, even as The Master, The Mistress and the Atheistic Crusade hurtle toward their final confrontation.

The world of Mordew returns in the epic conclusion to the Cities of the Weft trilogy. Welcome to Waterblack.]]> 640 Alex Pheby 1250817293 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2025-published 4.07
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.07
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]]> 28688181 One of the Time 100 Best Fantasy Books Of All Time

Two men rebel together against tyranny—and then become rivals—in this first sweeping book of an epic fantasy series from Ken Liu, recipient of Hugo, Nebula, and World Fantasy awards. Hailed as one of the best books of 2015 by NPR.

Wily, charming Kuni Garu, a bandit, and stern, fearless Mata Zyndu, the son of a deposed duke, seem like polar opposites. Yet, in the uprising against the emperor, the two quickly become the best of friends after a series of adventures fighting against vast conscripted armies, silk-draped airships, and shapeshifting gods. Once the emperor has been overthrown, however, they each find themselves the leader of separate factions—two sides with very different ideas about how the world should be run and the meaning of justice.

Fans of intrigue, intimate plots, and action will find a new series to embrace in the Dandelion Dynasty.]]> 618 Ken Liu 1481424289 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.96 2015
author: Ken Liu
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2015
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]]> 195790570
After rescuing the Children of Night, Abeni and her friends are in search of the elder spirits—who they hope can protect Asha. But before the group can reach their destination, they’re captured and held prisoner by the Kingdom of the Gold Spinners, whose magics manipulate gold to build and achieve wonders. To secure their freedom, the companions make an agreement to retrieve the kingdom’s sacred and mystical Golden Throne, the very soul of their people—said to be hidden in a lost city beneath the sands and guarded by a terrible dragon. For Abeni, the quest for the throne becomes a race against time—the only means to assure she and her friends do not suffer the fate of being turned into living statues of gold forever.

But there are other dangers.

The Witch Priest has learned of Asha’s existence and has sent his forces to find her. Leading this search is a mortal teenage girl, who the Witch Priest has adopted almost as a daughter. With a pack of minions including the frightening Bat Riders and new villains like the coldhearted Huntsman and his three monstrous hounds, she sets out after Abeni and her friends—driven by a determination to prove her own strength and worth, to both her unforgiving “father�� and herself.

Abeni will find herself facing these new challenges as she seeks to bring back the Golden Throne, evade the Witch Priest’s hunters, and fulfill her own quest to find the disappeared people of her village.]]> 368 P. Djèlí Clark 1250825857 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.50 2024
author: P. Djèlí Clark
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.50
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]]> 57100 208 C.J. Cherryh 0886771390 Jonathan 4 2025-read, sf 4.05 1982
author: C.J. Cherryh
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.05
book published: 1982
rating: 4
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date added: 2025/02/06
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Personal and political intrigues. Fits right after events of Downbelow Station. Pace is much quicker. This can be read as a standalone.
]]> 127306588
The year is 2006. Martin Hench is at the top of his game as a self-employed forensic accountant, a veteran of the long guerrilla war between people who want to hide money, and people who want to find it. He spends his downtime on Catalina Island, where scenic, imported bison wander the bluffs and frozen, reheated fast food burgers cost 25$. Wait, what? When Marty disrupts a seemingly innocuous scheme during a vacation on Catalina Island, he has no idea he’s kicked off a chain of events that will overtake the next decade of his life.

Martin has made his most dangerous mistake trespassed into the playgrounds of the ultra-wealthy and spoiled their fun. To them, money is a tool, a game, and a way to keep score, and they’ve found their newest mark―California’s Department of Corrections. Secure in the knowledge that they’re living behind far too many firewalls of shell companies and investors ever to be identified, they are interested not in the lives they ruin, but only in how much money they can extract from the government and the hundreds of thousands of prisoners they have at their mercy.

A seething rebuke of the privatized prison system that delves deeply into the arcane and baroque financial chicanery involved in the 2008 financial crash, The Bezzle is a sizzling follow-up to Red Team Blues .]]> 230 Cory Doctorow 1250865875 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.01 2024
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 220458657 Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft in this eerie multigenerational horror saga from the New York Times bestselling author of Mexican Gothic.

“Back then, when I was a young woman, there were still witches��: That was how Nana Alba always began the stories she told her great-granddaughter Minerva—stories that have stayed with Minerva all her life. Perhaps that’s why Minerva has become a graduate student focused on the history of horror literature and is researching the life of Beatrice Tremblay, an obscure author of macabre tales.

In the course of assembling her thesis, Minerva uncovers information that reveals that Tremblay’s most famous novel, The Vanishing, was inspired by a true story: Decades earlier, during the Great Depression, Tremblay attended the same university where Minerva is now studying and became obsessed with her beautiful and otherworldly roommate, who then disappeared under mysterious circumstances.

As Minerva descends ever deeper into Tremblay’s manuscript, she begins to sense that the malign force that stalked Tremblay and the missing girl might still walk the halls of the campus. These disturbing events also echo the stories Nana Alba told about her girlhood in 1900s Mexico, where she had a terrifying encounter with a witch.

Minerva suspects that the same shadow that darkened the lives of her great-grandmother and Beatrice Tremblay is now threatening her own in 1990s Massachusetts. An academic career can be a punishing pursuit, but it might turn outright deadly when witchcraft is involved.]]> 368 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0593874323 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.37 2025
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.37
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]]> 461347 1088 Asti Hustvedt 1890951072 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.45 1998
author: Asti Hustvedt
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.45
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]]> 204316857 The Nobelist's latest masterwork, set in a sanitarium on the eve of World War I, probes the horrors that lie beneath our most hallowed ideas.

In September 1913, Mieczysław, a student suffering from tuberculosis, arrives at Wilhelm Opitz's Guesthouse for Gentlemen, a health resort in��Görbersdorf, what is now western Poland. Every day, its residents gather in the dining room to imbibe the hallucinogenic local liqueur, to obsess over money and status, and to discuss the great issues of the day: Will there be war? Monarchy or democracy? Do devils exist? Are women inherently inferior?

Meanwhile, disturbing things are beginning to happen in the guesthouse and its surroundings. As stories of shocking events in the surrounding highlands reach the men, a sense of dread builds. Someone—or something—seems to be watching them and attempting to infiltrate their world. Little does Mieczysław realize, as he attempts to unravel both the truths within himself and the mystery of the sinister forces beyond, that they have already chosen their next target.

A century after the publication of The Magic Mountain, Tokarczuk revisits Thomas Mann territory and lays claim to it, blending horror story, comedy, folklore, and feminist parable with brilliant storytelling.]]> 320 Olga Tokarczuk 0593712943 Jonathan 5 3.66 2022
author: Olga Tokarczuk
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2022
rating: 5
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Olga Tokarczuk with yet another masterpiece. I loved Flights, which won her the Nobel and the Booker prizes in 2018. This is a partial retelling of Thomas Mann's Magic Mountain (1924), but something wholly itself. There are many obvious parallels in this slight parody including the general plot of a character staying at a sanatorium in 1913. The Easter eggs are very pleasant for those readers. You DO NOT have to have read MM. Some uninformed reviews of this book focus on the blatant misogyny of the supporting characters. The Empusium is a self conscious comment on the treatment of gender during the era. Also a criticism of the self-indulgent dialogues of characters from both. At the end of Tokarczuk’s book, there is a surprise afterward that lists well-known writers from history that these dialogues were actually lifted from! A shocking, but brilliant move. The Empusium - A Health Resort Horror Story is an excellent novel with a clear structure and ends with an exciting twist for character development. A strong theme of gender politics and identity is delivered by Tokaarczuk’s human touch. Regarding the subtitle, there are subtle gothic tropes, including a pagan/folkloric layer "underneath" ( I'll just say moss & mushrooms....) and an uncanny, spectral thread that will have you rethinking the whole book by the end.
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This is the impassioned and exhilarating story of the composers who dared to challenge the conventional world of classical music in the twentieth century. Traversing the globe from Ethiopia and the Philippines to Mexico, Jerusalem, Russia and beyond, journalist, critic and BBC Radio 3 broadcaster Kate Molleson tells the stories of ten figures who altered the course of musical history, only to be sidelined and denied recognition during an era that systemically favoured certain sounds - and people - over others. A celebration of radical creativity rooted in ideas of protest, gender, race, ecology and resistance, Sound Within Sound is an energetic reappraisal of twentieth-century classical music that opens up the world far beyond its established centres, challenges stereotypical portrayals of the genre and shatters its traditional canon.]]> 312 Kate Molleson 0571363229 Jonathan 0 4.40 2022
author: Kate Molleson
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, music, published-2022
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]]> 214283593 The future of storytelling is here.

Life has thrown Zelu some curveballs over the years, but when she's suddenly dropped from her university job and her latest novel is rejected, all in the middle of her sister's wedding, her life is upended. Disabled, unemployed and from a nosy, high-achieving, judgmental family, she's not sure what comes next.

In her hotel room that night, she takes the risk that will define her life - she decides to write a book VERY unlike her others. A science fiction drama about androids and AI after the extinction of humanity. And everything changes.

What follows is a tale of love and loss, fame and infamy, of extraordinary events in one world, and another. And as Zelu's life evolves, the lines between fiction and reality begin to blur.

Because sometimes a story really does have the power to reshape the world.]]> 448 Nnedi Okorafor 0063391147 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2025-published 4.11 2025
author: Nnedi Okorafor
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/27
shelves: to-read, 2025-published
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Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she’d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess. . . .

Praise for Sun Storm

“Richly atmospheric.�� �� Kirkus Reviews

“Larsson builds suspense gradually but inexorably, and she is equally good at creating mood. . . .This impressive debut heralds another striking voice from Scandinavia.�� �� Booklist ��

“For those who eschew exotic travel in favor of the familiar hammock, there’s nothing better than a well-written and well-translated story from some place you’ll probably never visit. is that story and more!�� �� Rocky Mountain News�����ձ�> 310 Åsa Larsson 0385340788 Jonathan 4 2025-read, novel 3.70 2003
author: Åsa Larsson
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/26
date added: 2025/01/25
shelves: 2025-read, novel
review:
My first Nordic Noir. It was what I expected and it was ok. Snowy, atmospheric, page turning procedural. Good characters and clear narrative direction. I think I’ll check out more Scandinavian Crime. If anyone’s reading, leave me your recommendations.
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The Magic Mountain is a monumental work of erudition and irony, sexual tension and intellectual ferment, a book that pulses with life in the midst of death.]]> 706 Thomas Mann Jonathan 5 2025-read, literature, novel ]]> 4.12 1924
author: Thomas Mann
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1924
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/21
date added: 2025/01/21
shelves: 2025-read, literature, novel
review:
1924. A timely book. But could be for anytime. Long, but rewarding in its nuance. Bold in its banal treatment of minutiae. Not for every one. But could be for you if you have the patience. And the time. Probably a new fave novel. Totally revolutionized my experience of READING A BOOK.

]]> 45024007 The noted inventor and futurist’s successor to his landmark book The Singularity Is Near explores how technology will transform the human race in the decades to come

Since it was first published in 2005, Ray Kurzweil’s The Singularity Is Near and its vision of an exponential future have spawned a worldwide movement. Kurzweil's predictions about technological advancements have largely come true, with concepts like AI, intelligent machines, and biotechnology now widely familiar to the public.

In this entirely new book Ray Kurzweil brings a fresh perspective to advances toward the Singularity—assessing his 1999 prediction that AI will reach human level intelligence by 2029 and examining the exponential growth of technology—that, in the near future, will expand human intelligence a millionfold and change human life forever. Among the topics he discusses are rebuilding the world, atom by atom with devices like nanobots; radical life extension beyond the current age limit of 120; reinventing intelligence by connecting our brains to the cloud; how exponential technologies are propelling innovation forward in all industries and improving all aspects of our well-being such as declining poverty and violence; and the growth of renewable energy and 3-D printing. He also considers the potential perils of biotechnology, nanotechnology, and artificial intelligence, including such topics of current controversy as how AI will impact employment and the safety of autonomous cars, and "After Life" technology, which aims to virtually revive deceased individuals through a combination of their data and DNA.

The culmination of six decades of research on artificial intelligence, The Singularity Is Nearer is Ray Kurzweil’s crowning contribution to the story of this science and the revolution that is to come.]]> 432 Ray Kurzweil 0399562761 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.85 2024
author: Ray Kurzweil
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/21
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]]> 57129771
A reinvention of the Gothic novel and an established classic of fantastic literature, Malpertuis is as inventive and gripping today as when it first appeared in French in the dark year of 1943.

Malpertuis is a puzzle box of nested narratives wrested from a set of manuscripts stolen from a monastery. A bizarre collection of distrustful relatives has gathered together in the ancient stone mansion of a sea-trading dynasty for the impending death of the occult scientist, Uncle Cassave, and the reading of his will. Forced to dwell together for the remainder of their lives within the stifling walls of Malpertuis for the sake of a cursed inheritance, their banal existence gradually gives way to love affairs and secret plots, as the building slowly exposes a malevolence that eventually leads to a series of ghastly deaths.

The eccentric personalities it houses―which include an obsessive taxidermist, a hypochondriac, a trio of vengeful sisters and a former paint store manager who has gone mad―begin to shed like skins to reveal yet another hidden story buried in the novel’s structure, one that turns the haunted-house tradition on its head and culminates in an apocalyptic denouement.]]> 256 Jean Ray 1939663709 Jonathan 0 4.13 1943
author: Jean Ray
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1943
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/20
shelves: to-read, the-weird, surrealism-fin-de-siecle-dada
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]]> 1468236 932 J.V. Jones 0446608173 Jonathan 0 fantasy, currently-reading 3.61 1999
author: J.V. Jones
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/20
shelves: fantasy, currently-reading
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]]> 854699 912 Tad Williams 1857236165 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.90 1988
author: Tad Williams
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.90
book published: 1988
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/20
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]]> 35270734
The Century Guild Museum of Art is dedicated to providing a historical context to popular culture, primarily by exhibiting Art Nouveau and Symbolist artworks 1880-1920. Founded in 1999 as an art gallery, the personal mission of founder Thomas Negovan has always been to educate and inspire by creating a bridge of understanding between the late 19th century and the present- especially to unsuspecting yet passionate audiences; one notable example being the exhibition of museum-level Art Nouveau to the over 100,000 art lovers annually attending San Diego Comic Con.

The museum is focused primarily on the presentation of Art Nouveau and Symbolist works from Germany, Austria, France and Italy 1880-1920, including the lithography of historically significant artists such as Gustav Klimt, Egon Schiele, and Alphonse Mucha alongside the finest examples of Art Nouveau objects including Amphora and Massier pottery, and artifacts from the golden eras of Silent Film and Cabaret.

For nearly twenty years Century Guild has exhibited rare artworks in venues as varied as L.A. Art, The Merchandise Mart International Antiques Fair, and San Diego Comic Con. Works previously in the Century Guild collection have been displayed in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, The Art Institute of Chicago, The Detroit Institute of Art, and LACMA.]]> 92 Thomas Negovan 0990949575 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.80
author: Thomas Negovan
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.80
book published:
rating: 0
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]]> 587312 148 Susan Cooper 0689710887 Jonathan 4 3.87 1974
author: Susan Cooper
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1974
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/19
date added: 2025/01/19
shelves: 2025-read, fantasy, yaf, yaf-fantasy
review:
These books are comforting. I love the setting, Cornwall, UK. I love the evocative descriptions of this terrain -This is found in most of Cooper books. There’s a dreamlike quality her writing , especially during an episode where there’s a ritual at sea. I’m not wild about grail mythology, or the clear-cut ‘Light vs Dark�� theme at the core of this deliberately YA novel. But there’s enough British pagan folklore rippling throughout with a mysterious, cozy vibe that really hits the spot.
]]> 409663 220 Michael Moorcock 0440179947 Jonathan 4 2025-read, fantasy 3.63 1970
author: Michael Moorcock
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.63
book published: 1970
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/04
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: 2025-read, fantasy
review:
Fast-paced, quick read and very much like other Moorcock's other sword & sorceries. We have a reluctant hero, a quest, questions of self-discovery & destiny, and themes of chaos vs order. Without any indication on the cover, this is 2nd book. Despite that, this story can be enjoyed without the first book in this series and I still feel satisfied by the end. It also reminds that it exists in his Multiverse, without too much cause or effect on this story. I chose to read this on a particularly snowy weekend, and I loved the trek across the cold landscapes.
]]> 57913
Filled with sex and violence—in and out of time and space—the three books of The Illuminatus! Trilogy are only partly works of the imagination. They tackle all the cover-ups of our time—from who really shot the Kennedys to why there's a pyramid on a one-dollar bill—and suggest a mind-blowing truth.]]> 805 Robert Shea 0440539811 Jonathan 0 to-read, paused 4.02 1983
author: Robert Shea
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.02
book published: 1983
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: to-read, paused
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]]> 42800306 545 Erik Davis 1907222766 Jonathan 0 to-read, paused 4.22
author: Erik Davis
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.22
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: to-read, paused
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]]> 48727813 Two-time British Fantasy Award Winner
Astounding Award Winner
Lambda Literary Award Finalist
Hugo Award Finalist
Locus Award Finalist
Otherwise Award Finalist

"Magnificent in every way."—Samantha Shannon, author of The Priory of the Orange Tree

"A dazzling new world of fate, war, love and betrayal."—Zen Cho, author of Black Water Sister

She Who Became the Sun reimagines the rise to power of the Ming Dynasty’s founding emperor.

To possess the Mandate of Heaven, the female monk Zhu will do anything

“I refuse to be nothing…��

In a famine-stricken village on a dusty yellow plain, two children are given two fates. A boy, greatness. A girl, nothingness��

In 1345, China lies under harsh Mongol rule. For the starving peasants of the Central Plains, greatness is something found only in stories. When the Zhu family’s eighth-born son, Zhu Chongba, is given a fate of greatness, everyone is mystified as to how it will come to pass. The fate of nothingness received by the family’s clever and capable second daughter, on the other hand, is only as expected.

When a bandit attack orphans the two children, though, it is Zhu Chongba who succumbs to despair and dies. Desperate to escape her own fated death, the girl uses her brother's identity to enter a monastery as a young male novice. There, propelled by her burning desire to survive, Zhu learns she is capable of doing whatever it takes, no matter how callous, to stay hidden from her fate.

After her sanctuary is destroyed for supporting the rebellion against Mongol rule, Zhu takes the chance to claim another future her brother's abandoned greatness.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 416 Shelley Parker-Chan 1250621798 Jonathan 5 ]]> 3.87 2021
author: Shelley Parker-Chan
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/27
date added: 2025/01/10
shelves: fantasy, published-2021, read-2024
review:
First Part of a duology set at end of the Mongolian led Yuan dynasty. It ends with the crowning of the first Ming emperor. This was very intriguing and I learned a lot about that period of China. I concurrently watched Youtube history vids to supplement. The books are “Historical fiction with a quarter turn to the fantastic�� as like what Guy Gavriel Kay says about some of his books.

]]> 1826082 188 Michael Moorcock 0425095622 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.86 1970
author: Michael Moorcock
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.86
book published: 1970
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 102083 284 Clark Ashton Smith 1597800287 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.13 2006
author: Clark Ashton Smith
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: to-read
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]]> 21413846
"Wolf winter,'" she said, her voice small. "I wanted to ask about it. You know, what it is."
He was silent for a long time. "It's the kind of winter that will remind us we are mortal," he said. "Mortal and alone."

Swedish Lapland, 1717. Maija, her husband Paavo and her daughters Frederika and Dorotea arrive from their native Finland, hoping to forget the traumas of their past and put down new roots in this harsh but beautiful land. Above them looms Blackåsen, a mountain whose foreboding presence looms over the valley and whose dark history seems to haunt the lives of those who live in its shadow.

While herding the family's goats on the mountain, Frederika happens upon the mutilated body of one of their neighbors, Eriksson. The death is dismissed as a wolf attack, but Maija feels certain that the wounds could only have been inflicted by another man. Compelled to investigate despite her neighbors' strange disinterest in the death and the fate of Eriksson's widow, Maija is drawn into the dark history of tragedies and betrayals that have taken place on Blackåsen. Young Frederika finds herself pulled towards the mountain as well, feeling something none of the adults around her seem to notice.

As the seasons change, and the "wolf winter," the harshest winter in memory, descends upon the settlers, Paavo travels to find work, and Maija finds herself struggling for her family's survival in this land of winter-long darkness. As the snow gathers, the settlers' secrets are increasingly laid bare. Scarce resources and the never-ending darkness force them to come together, but Maija, not knowing who to trust and who may betray her, is determined to find the answers for herself. Soon, Maija discovers the true cost of survival under the mountain, and what it will take to make it to spring.]]> 376 Cecilia Ekbäck 1602862524 Jonathan 0 to-read, polar 3.76 2015
author: Cecilia Ekbäck
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/09
shelves: to-read, polar
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]]> 200371182
Step into the magical realms of "The Advent of Winter," where twenty-four self-published authors craft enchanting tales that will transport you to a realm of frost-kissed wonders. This winter-themed fantasy anthology invites you to journey through December, one captivating story at a time.

With each story, you'll discover a new world, a new adventure, and a new facet of the season. From tales of joy and beauty that warm your heart to stories filled with danger and horror that send shivers down your spine, "The Advent of Winter" is a treasure trove of diverse narratives.

Let these evocative tales wrap you in the spirit of the season, as you explore the many faces of winter's magic. Whether you're seeking the comfort of familiar traditions or the thrill of unexpected surprises, this anthology will make your December days truly enchanting.]]> 440 Dom McDermott Jonathan 0 4.30
author: Dom McDermott
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: to-read, fantasy, polar, short-stories
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]]> 44222604
Ages- 16+

Includes some explicit content.]]> 184 Aviaq Johnston 1772272140 Jonathan 0 3.69 2019
author: Aviaq Johnston
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: to-read, polar, native-america, horror
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A dark fantasy tale inspired by Slavic folklore, Dark Woods, Deep Water is the debut novel by Croatian author Jelena Dunato. Set in an intricately imagined world that staggers the line between fairytale and brutality, this novel will appeal to fans of Katherine Arden and Naomi Novik, as well as lovers of classic Gothic fiction.]]> 321 Jelena Dunato 1739234839 Jonathan 0 3.76 2023
author: Jelena Dunato
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: to-read, fantasy, gothic, folklore
review:

]]> 213395490 The legendary author of England’s Dreaming presents a monumental history of the queer influence on popular culture, from the rise of Little Richard to the collapse of disco in 1979.


In his kaleidoscopic new book, Jon Savage, the legendary author of England’s Dreaming, shows how music has been the key medium through which homosexuality was expressed for the last century. Depicting nothing less than the birth of rock and roll, the narrative begins in the mid-1950s with Little Richard, whose music possessed secret codes of the gay underworld and whose magnetism attracted millions of white teenagers. As Savage engagingly proceeds through the late 1950s, 1960s, and 1970s with evocations of, among others, Elvis Presley, James Dean, Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Janis Joplin, Donna Summer, Sylvester, and the disco-era Bee Gees, he demonstrates that it was mostly music—with supporting roles from cinema, literature, and fashion—that broke the dam that led to the widespread acceptance of LGBTQ culture today. The Secret Public, with its “pancake and pompadour�� descriptions of a generation in revolt, provides an electrifying look at the key moments in music and entertainment that changed pop culture forever.]]> 784 Jon Savage 1324096101 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2025-published 3.97 2024
author: Jon Savage
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.97
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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shelves: to-read, 2025-published
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]]> 22587574
Walter Benjamin in brief:
Born in Germany in 1892, Benjamin was known as a 'man of letters'. Having been educated in Switzerland he had a short career in the lead up to the Second World War, which saw him carve a niche as a literary critic. In the 1930s he turned to Marxism, partly due to the influence of Bertolt Brecht and partly due to the rise of extreme right-wing politics in Europe. He spent much of his professional life in Paris, where he wrote this essay. Benjamin died in 1940 having committed suicide at the French–Spanish border while attempting to escape the Nazis.]]> 23 Walter Benjamin 1907993126 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.87 1931
author: Walter Benjamin
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.87
book published: 1931
rating: 0
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]]> 205673377 From one of Japan's most brilliant and sensitive contemporary novelists, this speculative fiction masterpiece envisions an Earth where humans are nearing extinction, and rewrites our understanding of reproduction, ecology, evolution, artificial intelligence, communal life, creation, love, and the future of humanity.

In the distant future, humans are on the verge of extinction and have settled in small tribes across the planet under the observation and care of "Mothers." Some children are made in factories, from cells of rabbits and dolphins; some live by getting nutrients from water and light, like plants. The survival of the race depends on the interbreeding of these and other alien beings--but it is far from certain that connection, love, reproduction, and evolution will persist among the inhabitants of this faltering new world.

Unfolding over fourteen interconnected episodes spanning geological eons, at once technical and pastoral, mournful and utopic, Under the Eye of the Big Bird presents an astonishing vision of the end of our species as we know it.]]> 288 Hiromi Kawakami 1593766114 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.77 2016
author: Hiromi Kawakami
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 205673381 Franz Kafka meets Yorgos Lanthimos in this provocative new novel from one of America’s most brilliant and distinctive writers

In a speculative future, Abel, a menial worker, is called to serve in a secretive and fabled jury system. At the heart of this system is the repeat room, where a single juror, selected from hundreds of candidates, is able to inhabit the defendant’s lived experience, to see as if through their eyes.

The case to which Abel is assigned is revealed in the novel’s shocking second act. We receive a record of a boy’s broken and constrained life, a tale that reveals an illicit and passionate psycho-sexual relationship, its end as tragic as the circumstances of its conception.

Artful in its suspense, and sharp in its evocation of a byzantine and cruel bureaucracy, The Repeat Room is an exciting and pointed critique of the nature of knowledge and judgment, and a vivid framing of Ball’s absurd and nihilistic philosophy of love.]]> 256 Jesse Ball 1646221400 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.13 2024
author: Jesse Ball
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.13
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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A murderous attack against a Glitter Band habitat is nasty, but it looks to be an open-and-shut case—until Dreyfus starts looking under some stones that some very powerful people would really rather stayed unturned. What he uncovers is far more serious than mere gruesome murder...]]> 410 Alastair Reynolds 0575077166 Jonathan 4 2025-read, sf 4.15 2007
author: Alastair Reynolds
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/01
date added: 2025/01/02
shelves: 2025-read, sf
review:
An investigative procedural with lots of covert intrigue involving disembodied minds, dark ghostly locales, and wicked tech. Reynolds science talk is always heavy, but exciting for me. You do not have to have read the main Revelation Space novels, but some of the aspects of the greater world are spread into this with some minor explanation. The Conjoiners (AI augmentations) and Ultras (transhumans) are present. The Demarchist, a political faction with a neural implant for constant voting, looms large as one of the main plot threads involves sabotage to a 'polling core'. Although it does come to a general end, not everything is wrapped up in this—naturally this left room for the next 2 in the 'Dreyfus' series within a series. Themes of memory, regret, sacrifice. A quick read thanks to the thriller/mystery drive.
]]> 664566
Margrave of the Marshes is the astonishing book John Peel began to write before his untimely death in October 2004, completed by the woman who knew him best, his wife Sheila. It is a unique and intimate portrait of a life, a marriage and a family which is every bit as extraordinary as the man himself - a fitting tribute to a bona fide legend.]]> 508 John Peel 0552551198 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.99 2005
author: John Peel
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> 2866538
7 �� Prelude: The Coming of the ��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2008) �� short story by Eric Brown
19 �� Ferryman �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (1997) �� short story by Eric Brown
41 �� Onward Station �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (1998) �� short story by Eric Brown
65 �� The ��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Inheritance �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2001) �� novelette by Eric Brown
95 �� Thursday's Child �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2002) �� novelette by Eric Brown
131 �� The Touch of Angels �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2006) �� novelette by Eric Brown
169 �� The Wisdom of the Dead �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2003) �� short story by Eric Brown
193 �� A Heritage of Stars �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2005) �� short story by Eric Brown
215 �� Matthew's Passion �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2008) �� short story by Tony Ballantyne and Eric Brown
245 �� A Choice of Eternities �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2004) �� short story by Eric Brown
269 �� The Farewell Party �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2007) �� short story by Eric Brown
293 �� Coda: Diaspora �� [��é�ٳ󲹲Ծ� Stories] �� (2008) �� short story by Eric Brown]]> 311 Eric Brown 184416473X Jonathan 0 to-read 3.55 2008
author: Eric Brown
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2008
rating: 0
read at:
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On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the greatest discovery in humanity’s spacefaring history �� yet who were its builders and where did they go?

Professor Arton Daghdev had always wanted to study alien life up close. Then his wishes become a reality in the worst way. His political activism sees him exiled from Earth to Kiln’s extrasolar labour camp. There, he’s condemned to work under an alien sky until he dies.

Kiln boasts a ravenous, chaotic ecosystem like nothing seen on Earth. The monstrous alien life interacts in surprising, sometimes shocking ways with the human body, so Arton will risk death on a daily basis. However, the camp’s oppressive regime might just kill him first. If Arton can somehow escape both fates, the world of Kiln holds a wondrous, terrible secret. It will redefine life and intelligence as he knows it, and might just set him free . . .]]> 396 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1035013770 Jonathan 5 2024-published, read-2024, sf 3.98 2024
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: 2024-published, read-2024, sf
review:
GULAG ON ALIEN PLANET. Including all the revolutionary politics. Strong theme of individual vs. collective, which is echoed by the environment/organisms. Tchaikovsky with excellent biological/ecological science and the propulsive narrative drive. The first-person subjective viewpoint w/ his keen awareness of self/interpersonal interactions was highly compelling.
]]> 210386150 388 Greg Egan 1922240516 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.18 2024
author: Greg Egan
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.18
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]]> 436367 The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favourite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical, and geographical information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream, nor on juxtaposition, but nonetheless represent a technique that André Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," he said, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote about IThe Heresiarch Co.,/I "This is a book for those who love literature, powerful and disturbing, strange and logical. The author, amid so many fantastic, tragic, and sometimes sublime inventions, intoxicates himself with a charming erudition with which he also intoxicates his readers."]]> 168 Guillaume Apollinaire 1878972030 Jonathan 0 currently-reading 3.76 1910
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.76
book published: 1910
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]]> 201930181
Caught up in academic intrigue and affairs of the heart, Dafyd Alkhor is pleased just to be an assistant to a brilliant scientist and his celebrated research team. ��Then the Carryx ships descend, decimating the human population and taking the best and brightest of Anjiin society away to serve on the Carryx homeworld, and Dafyd is swept along with them. They are dropped in the middle of a struggle they barely understand, set in a competition against the other captive species with extinction as the price of failure.

Only Dafyd and a handful of his companions see past the Darwinian contest to the deeper game that they must play to learning to understand �� and manipulate �� the Carryx themselves. With a noble but suicidal human rebellion on one hand and strange and murderous enemies on the other, the team pays a terrible price to become the trusted servants of their new rulers. Dafyd Alkhor is a simple man swept up in events that are beyond his control and more vast than his imagination. ��He will become the champion of humanity and its betrayer, the most hated man in history and the guardian of his people. This is where his story begins.]]> 422 James S.A. Corey 031652557X Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.11 2024
author: James S.A. Corey
name: Jonathan
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]]> 75593499
Panoply is a small, efficient police force, dedicated to maintaining the rule of democracy among the ten thousand disparate city-states orbiting the planet Yellowstone.

Ingvar Tench was one of Panoply's most experienced operatives. So why did she walk alone and unarmed into a habitat with a vicious grudge against her organization?

As his colleagues pick up the pieces following her death, Prefect Tom Dreyfus must face his conscience. Four years ago, when an investigation linked to one of his most dangerous adversaries got a little too personal, Dreyfus arranged for Tench to continue the inquiry by proxy. In using her, did Dreyfus also put her in the line of fire? And what does Tench's attack tell him about an enemy he had hoped was dormant?

The Prefect Dreyfus Emergencies
Aurora Rising
Elysium Fire��
Machine Vendetta��
���ձ�> 416 Alastair Reynolds 0316462845 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.12 2024
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.12
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]]> 123695485 296 Andreas Anton 3658413166 Jonathan 0 4.00
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]]> 61129692
What would life be like if it originated in a frigid ocean beneath an impenetrable shell of ice? Or on a world whose haze obscures any view of the universe beyond? Or on an unfathomable scale in the depths of space? Or . . .

Dive in as the European Astrobiology Institute presents fifty-four original SF Stories and Science Essays on life, from microbial to macro, from automatic to sagacious. Each speculative story is followed by a professional essay illuminating the scientific underpinnings of the story and providing a new window into the cutting-edge knowledge about exploration for life in the universe.

Contents:
* Foreword (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by Julie Novakova
* Introduction (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by Stephen Baxter
* Hemlock on Mars / short story by Eric Choi; Planetary Protection �� essay by Giovanni Poggiali
* The Dog Star Killer / short story by Renan Bernardo; That Cold Black Cloud �� essay by Stefano Sandrelli
* Titan of Chaos / short story by G. David Nordley; Flying Instead of Diving �� essay by Fabian Klenner
* Cloudskimmer / short story by Geoffrey A. Landis; Earth's Sister Planet �� essay by Dennis Honing
* The Lament of Kivu Lacus / short story by B. Zelkovich; Robots in Space Are Great �� essay by Ania Losiak
* Heavy Lies / short story by Rich Larson; Major Transitions �� essay by Stephen Francis Mann
* The World of Silver / short story by Tomáš Petrásek; Wet Wet Wet �� essay by William Bains
* Spider Plant / short story by Tessa Fisher; Signs of Life (and How to Find Them) �� essay by Tessa Fisher
* This Is How We Save Them / short story by Deji Bryce Olukotun; Valuing Life �� essay by Erik Persson;
* The Far Side of the Door / short story by Premee Mohamed; Space Agriculture �� essay by Raymond M. Wheeler
* Ranya's Crash / short story by Lisa J. Krieg (trans. of Die Todbringerin) [as by Lisa Jenny Krieg]; You Are Not Alone! �� essay by Jacques Arnould
* Spiral / short story by Arula Ratnakar; Spiraling Into the Unknown �� essay by Tomáš Petrásek
* The Last Cathedral of Earth, in Flight / short story by Tobias S. Buckell; The Latest Black Hole Planet, in Formation �� essay by Amedeo Romagnolo
* The Secret History of the Greatest Discovery / short story by Valentin D. Ivanov [as by as by Валентин Иванов]; Cooperation Without Communication �� essay by Valentin D. Ivanov [as by Валентин Иванов]
* Human Beans / short story by Eugen Bacon; Microbial Life and Belonging �� essay by Tony Milligan
* The Mirrored Symphony / short story by D. A. Xiaolin Spires; Mirror Images �� essay by Dimitra Demertzi
* Lumenfabulator / short story by Liu Yang; Crystal Green Persuasion �� essay by Nina Kopacz
* Cyclic Amplification, Meaning Family / short story by Bogi Takács; The Science of Xenolinguistics �� essay by Sheri Wells-Jensen
* The Diaphanous / short story by Gregory Benford; Life 2.0 �� essay by Geoffrey A. Landis
* The Sphinx of Adzhimushkaj / short story by Brian Rappatta; Finding Common Ground �� essay by Philippe Nauny
* Defective / novelette by Peter Watts; How Did They Know It Was Agni? �� essay by Joanna Piotrowska
* The Dangers We Choose / short story by Malka Older; The Habitability of Water Worlds �� essay by Floris van der Tak
* Third Life / short story by Julie E. Czerneda; The Unveiled Possibilities of Biomaterials in Space �� essay by Martina Dimoska
* Forever the Forest / short story by Simone Heller; Astra Narrans �� essay by Connor Martini
* Still As Bright / short story by Mary Robinette Kowal; �� And the Moon Be Still As Bright �� essay by José A. Caballero
* Devil in the Deep / short story by Lucie Lukačovičová; Some Like It Hot �� essay by Natuschka Lee, Lucie Lukačovičová
* Deep Blue Neon / short story by Jana Bianchi; Destined for Symbiosis �� essay by Jan Toman
* Afterword I (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by Wolf D. Geppert
* Afterword II (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by Susan Forest and Lucas K. Law
* Acknowledgments (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by editor
* About the Contributors (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by editor
* About the Editors (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by editor
* Copyright Acknowledgments (Life Beyond Us) �� essay by editor
* European Astrobiology Institute (EAI) �� essay by editor
* European Science Foundation (ESF) �� essay by editor
* Laksa Media Groups Inc. (LMG) �� essay by editor

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]]> 214200473
Track Changes: Selected Reviews collects Abigail’s best writing about books, films, and TV with a new Introduction. It demonstrates how, in recent years, some of science fiction and fantasy’s core themes �� from the exploration of space, to the invention of fantastic worlds, to our fluid understanding of what it means to be human �� have been refreshed by a new generation of writers, and in so doing it provides an essential map of the interactions between the fantastic genres, politics, and culture.]]> 448 Abigail Nussbaum 1738561704 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.67 2024
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name: Jonathan
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]]> 204356973 ~Publishers Weekly

In the parched, post-apocalyptic Western U.S. of the 22nd Century, wolves float, bonfires sing, and devils gather to pray. Water and safety are elusive in this chaotic world of alchemical transformations, where history books bleed, dragons kiss, and gun-toting trees keep their own kind of peace.

Among this menagerie of strange beasts, two sentient stone gargoyles, known only as “E�� and “M,�� flee the rubble of their Southwestern church in search of water. Along the way, they meet climate refugees Rose Baker and her mother Dolores, who’ve escaped the ravaged West Coast in search of a safer home. This quartet forms an uneasy alliance when they hear of a new hope: a mysterious city of dancing gargoyles. Or is it something more sinister? In this strange, terrible new world, their arrival at this elusive city could spark the destruction of everything they know.

Tara Campbell summons fantastical magic in this kaleidoscopic new speculative climate fiction.]]> Tara Campbell Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 4.27 2024
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average rating: 4.27
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]]> 213705002 An utterly gripping story of alien encounter and survival from Adrian Tchaikovsky, author of the Arthur C. Clarke Award-winning Children of Time.

They looked into the darkness and the darkness looked back . . .

New planets are fair game to asset strippers and interplanetary opportunists �� and a commercial mission to a distant star system discovers a moon that is pitch black, but alive with radio activity. Its high-gravity, high-pressure, zero-oxygen environment is anathema to human life, but ripe for exploitation. They named it Shroud.

Under no circumstances should a human end up on Shroud’s inhospitable surface. Except a catastrophic accident sees Juna Ceelander and Mai Ste Etienne doing just that. Forced to stage an emergency landing, in a small, barely adequate vehicle, they are unable to contact their ship and are running out of time. What follows is a gruelling journey across land, sea and air. During this time, Juna and Mai begin to understand Shroud’s dominant species. It also begins to understand them . . .

If they escape Shroud, they’ll face a crew only interested in profiteering from this extraordinary world. They’ll somehow have to explain the impossible and translate the incredible. That is, if they make it back at all.]]> 445 Adrian Tchaikovsky Jonathan 0 4.47 2025
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.47
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]]> 138378632
A collection of entrancing literary fables from an underrated master of the form ��

Perfect for the fans of David Mitchell, Julio Cortázar and Steven Barthelme are these 15 dreamlike tales.

Welcome to the fictional universe of C. D. Rose, whose stories seem to be set in some unidentifiable but vaguely Mitteleuropean nation, and likewise have an uncanny sense of timelessness �� the time could be some cobblestoned Victorian past era, or the present, or even the future.


In these 19 dreamlike tales, ghosts of the past mingle with the quiddities of modernity in a bewitching stew where lost masterpieces surface with translations in an invisible language, where image and photograph become mystically entwined, and where the very nature of reality takes on a shimmering sense of possibility and illusion.

“Every madness is logical to its owner,�� one of Rose’s characters says. And it is that line �� between logic and madness �� that Walter Benjamin Stares at the Sea walks with such assuredness and imagination.]]> 224 C.D. Rose 1685890849 Jonathan 0 3.68
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]]> 96177638 From a visionary Mexican author, a hallucinatory, revelatory, colonial revenge story that reimagines the fall of Tenochtitlan.

One morning in 1519, conquistador Hernán Cortés entered the city of Tenochtitlan �� today's Mexico City. Later that day, he would meet the emperor Moctezuma in a collision of two worlds, two empires, two languages, two possible futures.

Cortés was accompanied by his nine captains, his troops, and his two translators: Friar Aguilar, a taciturn, former slave, and Malinalli, a strategic, former princess. Greeted at a ceremonial welcome meal by the steely princess Atotoxli, sister and wife of Moctezuma, the Spanish nearly bungle their entrance to the city. As they await their meeting with Moctezuma �� who is at a political, spiritual, and physical crossroads, and relies on hallucinogens to get himself through the day and in quest for any kind of answer from the gods �� the Spanish are ensconced in the labyrinthine palace. Soon, one of Cortés’s captains, Jazmín Caldera, overwhelmed by the grandeur of the city, begins to question the ease with which they were welcomed into the city, and wonders at the risks of getting out alive, much less conquering the empire.

You Dreamed of Empires brings to life Tenochtitlan at its height, and reimagines its destiny. The incomparably original Alvaro Enrigue sets afire the moment of conquest and turns it into a moment of revolution, a restitutive, fantastical counter-attack, in a novel so electric and so unique that it feels like a dream.]]> 224 Álvaro Enrigue 1787303802 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.82 2022
author: Álvaro Enrigue
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.82
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]]> 62039278 From Carlos Fonseca comes a dazzling novel about legacy, memory, and the desire to know and be known.

The English writer Aliza Abravanel races to finish her final novel before her mind deteriorates. The last living speaker of a language is confronted with the disappearance of his culture. Through the construction of an esoteric theater of memory, a survivor of the Guatemalan genocide seeks to recover the memories buried in the trauma of war. Seeking the connecting thread between these three stories of loss is Julio, a disillusioned professor of literature who receives a posthumous summons from his old friend Aliza that will send him hurtling into a painful episode from his past.

A novel of compassion and of return--to one's native country, to one's darkest memories, to oneself--Austral maps a journey from war-ravaged Guatemala to the high Peruvian Amazon, passing through Nueva Germania, the antisemitic commune founded in Paraguay by Elisabeth F�rster-Nietzsche. A treasure box of intertwined stories, it is a fascinating investigation into the pain of loss, the disappearance of language and memory, and the dangers of globalization. With this dazzling exploration of the traces we leave behind, those we erase, and those we seek to rebuild, Carlos Fonseca confirms his status as one of the most powerful voices in contemporary Latin American literature.

Includes black-and-white illustrations]]> 224 Carlos Fonseca 037460665X Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.68 2022
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]]> 52873094
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 304 Silvia Moreno-Garcia Jonathan 0 to-read 3.76 2020
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.76
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]]> 220404894
A triumph of contemporary horror from the Booker Prize-shortlisted author, this collection of short stories will haunt you long after you turn the final page

A place of myths, rumours and secrets, The Hotel looms over the dark Fens, tall and grey in its Gothic splendour. Built on cursed land, a history of violent death suffuses its very foundations –yet it has a magnetism that is impossible to ignore.

On entering The Hotel, different people react in different ways. To some it is familiar, to others a stranger. Many come out refreshed, longing to return. But a few are changed forever, haunted by their time there. And almost all those affected are women...

They are children and mothers, monsters, cult film-makers, thrill-seekers and workers on the night shift, all with their own tales of its strange power, of the horrors of Room 63, and of desperate but failed attempts to escape its seductive pull.]]> 149 Daisy Johnson 1787335267 Jonathan 0 3.79 2021
author: Daisy Johnson
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.79
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]]> 127284214 When you bring back a long-extinct species, there’s more to success than the DNA.

Moscow has resurrected the mammoth, but someone must teach them how to be mammoths, or they are doomed to die out, again.
The late Dr. Damira Khismatullina, the world’s foremost expert in elephant behavior, is called in to help.
While she was murdered a year ago, her digitized consciousness is uploaded into the brain of a mammoth.
Can she help the magnificent creatures fend off poachers long enough for their species to take hold? And will she ever discover the real reason they were brought back?

A tense eco-thriller from a new master of the genre.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 192 Ray Nayler 1250855535 Jonathan 4 3.77 2024
author: Ray Nayler
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> 352600 192 Rikki Ducornet 1564780848 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.81 1995
author: Rikki Ducornet
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.81
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]]> 30375706
But alongside the black magic and disturbing disappearances, these stories are fueled by compassion for the frightened and the lost, ultimately bringing these characters—mothers and daughters, husbands and wives—into a surprisingly familiar reality. Written in hypnotic prose that gives grace to the grotesque, Things We Lost in the Fire is a powerful exploration of what happens when our darkest desires are left to roam unchecked, and signals the arrival of an astonishing and necessary voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 192 Mariana Enríquez 045149511X Jonathan 5 4.04 2016
author: Mariana Enríquez
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2016
rating: 5
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]]> 199793431
Gary Geist, a terrified young man set to inherit two farms, is desperate to marry Kismet Poe, an impulsive, lapsed Goth who can't read her future but seems to resolve his.

Hugo, a gentle red-haired, home-schooled giant, is also in love with Kismet. He’s determined to steal her and is eager to be a home wrecker.

Kismet's mother, Crystal, hauls sugar beets for Gary's family, and on her nightly runs, tunes into the darkness of late-night radio, sees visions of guardian angels, and worries for the future, her daughter’s and her own.

Human time, deep time, Red River time, the half-life of herbicides and pesticides, and the elegance of time represented in fracking core samples from unimaginable depths, is set against the speed of climate change, the depletion of natural resources, and the sudden economic meltdown of 2008-2009. How much does a dress cost? A used car? A package of cinnamon rolls? Can you see the shape of your soul in the everchanging clouds? Your personal salvation in the giant expanse of sky? These are the questions the people of the Red River Valley of the North wrestle with every day.

The Mighty Red is a novel of tender humor, disturbance, and hallucinatory mourning. It is about on-the-job pains and immeasurable satisfactions, a turbulent landscape, and eating the native weeds growing in your backyard. It is about ordinary people who dream, grow up, fall in love, struggle, endure tragedy, carry bitter secrets; men and women both complicated and contradictory, flawed and decent, lonely and hopeful. It is about a starkly beautiful prairie community whose members must cope with devastating consequences as powerful forces upend them. As with every book this great modern master writes, The Mighty Red is about our tattered bond with the earth, and about love in all of its absurdity and splendor.

A new novel by Louise Erdrich is a major literary event; gorgeous and heartrending, The Mighty Red is a triumph.]]> 384 Louise Erdrich 0063277050 Jonathan 4 3.78 2024
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.78
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rating: 4
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]]> 59575939 A grand tour through the hidden realms of animal senses that will transform the way you perceive the world --from the Pulitzer Prize-winning, New York Times bestselling author of I Contain Multitudes.

The Earth teems with sights and textures, sounds and vibrations, smells and tastes, electric and magnetic fields. But every animal is enclosed within its own unique sensory bubble, perceiving but a tiny sliver of an immense world. This book welcomes us into a previously unfathomable dimension--the world as it is truly perceived by other animals.

We encounter beetles that are drawn to fires, turtles that can track the Earth's magnetic fields, fish that fill rivers with electrical messages, and humans that wield sonar like bats. We discover that a crocodile's scaly face is as sensitive as a lover's fingertips, that the eyes of a giant squid evolved to see sparkling whales, that plants thrum with the inaudible songs of courting bugs, and that even simple scallops have complex vision. We learn what bees see in flowers, what songbirds hear in their tunes, and what dogs smell on the street. We listen to stories of pivotal discoveries in the field, while looking ahead at the many mysteries which lie unsolved.

In An Immense World, author and acclaimed science journalist Ed Yong coaxes us beyond the confines of our own senses, allowing us to perceive the skeins of scent, waves of electromagnetism, and pulses of pressure that surround us. Because in order to understand our world we don't need to travel to other places; we need to see through other eyes.]]> 464 Ed Yong Jonathan 0 to-read, science 4.46 2022
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]]> 60769830 How Far the Light Reaches is a book that invites us to envision wilder, grander, and more abundant possibilities for the way we live.]]> 263 Sabrina Imbler 0316540536 Jonathan 0 to-read, nature 4.10 2022
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.10
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]]> 196774338
The Light Eaters is a deep immersion into the drama of green life and the complexity of this wild and awe-inspiring world that challenges our very understanding of agency, consciousness, and intelligence. In looking closely, we see that plants, rather than imitate human intelligence, have perhaps formed a parallel system. What is intelligent life if not a vine that grows leaves to blend into the shrub on which it climbs, a flower that shapes its bloom to fit exactly the beak of its pollinator, a pea seedling that can hear water flowing and make its way toward it? Zoë Schlanger takes us across the globe, digging into her own memories and into the soil with the scientists who have spent their waking days studying these amazing entities up close.

What can we learn about life on Earth from the living things that thrive, adapt, consume, and accommodate simultaneously? More important, what do we owe these life forms once we come to understand their rich and varied abilities? Examining the latest epiphanies in botanical research, Schlanger spotlights the intellectual struggles among the researchers conceiving a wholly new view of their subject, offering a glimpse of a field in turmoil as plant scientists debate the tenets of ongoing discoveries and how they influence our understanding of what a plant is.

We need plants to survive. But what do they need us for—if at all? An eye-opening and informative look at the ecosystem we live in, this book challenges us to rethink the role of plants—and our own place—in the natural world.]]> 304 Zoë Schlanger 0063073854 Jonathan 0 4.28 2024
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 119512 314 László Krasznahorkai 0811215040 Jonathan 0 4.22 1989
author: László Krasznahorkai
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.22
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rating: 0
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]]> 205363963
The three Maxwell siblings keep their distance from the lily-white gated enclave outside Dallas where they grew up. When their family moved there, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors acted nice enough, but right away bad things, scary things—the strange and the unexplainable—began to happen in their house. Maybe it was some cosmic trial, a demonic rite of passage into the upper-middle class. Whatever it was, the Maxwells, steered by their formidable mother, stayed put, unwilling to abandon their home, terrors and trauma be damned.

As adults, the siblings could finally get away from the horrors of home, leaving their parents all alone in the house. But when news of their parents' death arrives, Ezri is forced to return to Texas with their sisters, Eve and Emanuelle, to reckon with their family’s past and present, and to find out what happened while they were away. It was not a “natural�� death for their parents . . . but was it supernatural?

Rivers Solomon turns the haunted-house story on its head, unearthing the dark legacies of segregation and racism in the suburban American South. Unbridled, raw, and daring, Model Home is the story of secret histories uncovered, and of a queer family battling for their right to live, grieve, and heal amid the terrors of contemporary American life.]]> 304 Rivers Solomon 0374607133 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.72 2024
author: Rivers Solomon
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.72
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]]> 123263848 736 Alexis Wright 1922725323 Jonathan 0 2024-published, to-read 3.77 2023
author: Alexis Wright
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.77
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rating: 0
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]]> 12398 811 William T. Vollmann 0143036599 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.96 2005
author: William T. Vollmann
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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]]> 20663749 The Overstory, an emotionally charged novel inspired by the myth of Orpheus.

In Orfeo, composer Peter Els opens the door one evening to find the police on his doorstep. His home microbiology lab—the latest experiment in his lifelong attempt to find music in surprising patterns—has aroused the suspicions of Homeland Security. Panicked by the raid, Els turns fugitive and hatches a plan to transform this disastrous collision with the security state into an unforgettable work of art that will reawaken its audience to the sounds all around it.]]> 400 Richard Powers 0393349845 Jonathan 5 3.64 2014
author: Richard Powers
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/04
date added: 2024/12/04
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]]> 12079 The Christian Science Monitor.]]> 704 Ray Monk 0140159959 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.12 1990
author: Ray Monk
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.12
book published: 1990
rating: 0
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]]> 862264 Mourning for Mourning by Robert Desnos, The Cardinal Point by Michel Leiris, The Polar Child by Georges Limbour, and The Elegant Ewe by Benjamin Péret.]]> 169 Robert Desnos 0947757791 Jonathan 0 4.06 1994
author: Robert Desnos
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.06
book published: 1994
rating: 0
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Colorado, 1864. Star, a young survivor of the Sand Creek Massacre, is brought to the Fort Marion Prison Castle, where he is forced to learn English and practice Christianity by Richard Henry Pratt, an evangelical prison guard who will go on to found the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, an institution dedicated to the eradication of Native history, culture, and identity. A generation later, Star’s son, Charles, is sent to the school, where he is brutalized by the man who was once his father’s jailer. Under Pratt’s harsh treatment, Charles clings to moments he shares with a young fellow student, Opal Viola, as the two envision a future away from the institutional violence that follows their bloodlines.

Oakland, 2018. Opal Viola Victoria Bear Shield is barely holding her family together after the shooting that nearly took the life of her nephew Orvil. From the moment he awakens in his hospital bed, Orvil begins compulsively googling school shootings on YouTube. He also becomes emotionally reliant on the prescription medications meant to ease his physical trauma. His younger brother, Lony, suffering from PTSD, is struggling to make sense of the carnage he witnessed at the shooting by secretly cutting himself and enacting blood rituals that he hopes will connect him to his Cheyenne heritage. Opal is equally adrift, experimenting with Ceremony and peyote, searching for a way to heal her wounded family.

Extending his constellation of narratives into the past and future, Tommy Orange once again delivers a story that is by turns shattering and wondrous, a book piercing in its poetry, sorrow, and rage—a masterful follow-up to his already-classic first novel, and a devastating indictment of America’s war on its own people.]]> 315 Tommy Orange 0593318250 Jonathan 5 3.83 2024
author: Tommy Orange
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> 207077626 190 Martin Locker 9992033878 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.75
author: Martin Locker
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.75
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rating: 0
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For the past twelve years, a community of Anishinaabe people have made the Northern Ontario bush their home in the wake of the infrastructural power failure that brought about governmental and societal collapse. Hunters and harvesters, they have survived and thrived the way their ancestors once did, but their natural food resources are dwindling, and the time has come to find a new home.
Evan Whitesky volunteers to lead a dangerous mission south to explore the possibility of moving back to their ancestral home, the “land where the birch trees grow by the big water�� in the Great Lakes region.

Accompanied by five others, including his daughter Nangohns, a great archer and hunter, Evan begins a journey that will take him through the reserve where the Anishinaabe were once settled, the devastated city of Gibson, and a land now being reclaimed by nature. But it isn’t just the wilderness that poses a threat as they encounter other survivors. Those who, like the Anishinaabe, live in harmony with the land. And those who use violence to fulfill their needs. . .]]> 307 Waubgeshig Rice 0358673259 Jonathan 5 4.22 2023
author: Waubgeshig Rice
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/27
date added: 2024/11/27
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Vladimir Sorokin’s Blue Lard is the most iconic and iconoclastic Russian novel of the last forty years. Thanks in part to its depiction of Stalin and Khrushchev having sex, which inspired a Putinist youth group to throw shredded copies of the author’s books into an enormous toilet erected in front of Moscow’s Bolshoi Theater, Blue Lard is the novel that tore Sorokin out of the Moscow Conceptualist underground and into the headlines.

The book begins in a futuristic laboratory where genetic scientists speak in a Joycean dialect of Russian mixed with Chinese—peppered with ample neologisms—and work to clone famous Russian writers, who are then made to produce texts in the style of their forebears. The goal of this “script-process�� is not the texts themselves, but the blue lard that collects in the small of their backs as they write.

This substance is to be used to power reactors on the moon—that is, until a sect of devout nationalists breaks in to steal the blue lard, planning to send it back in time to an alternate version of the Soviet Union, one that exists on the margins of a Europe conquered by a long-haired Hitler with the ability to shoot electricity from his hands. What will come of this blue lard? Who will finally make use of its mysterious powers?

Blue Lard is a stylistically acrobatic book, translated by Max Lawton into an English idiom just as bizarre as the Russian original. Evoking both Pulp Fiction and the masterpieces of Marquis de Sade,��Sorokin’s novel is a brutal, heady trip that annihilates all of its twentieth- (and twenty-first-) century competition in the Russian canon—and that annihilates Russia itself in a resounding act of heavy-metal dissidence.]]> 422 Vladimir Sorokin 1681378191 Jonathan 0 3.90 1999
author: Vladimir Sorokin
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.90
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The community leadership loses its grip on power as the visitors manipulate the tired and hungry to take control of the reserve. Tensions rise and, as the months pass, so does the death toll due to sickness and despair. Frustrated by the building chaos, a group of young friends and their families turn to the land and Anishinaabe tradition in hopes of helping their community thrive again. Guided through the chaos by an unlikely leader named Evan Whitesky, they endeavor to restore order while grappling with a grave decision.

Blending action and allegory, Moon of the Crusted Snow upends our expectations. Out of catastrophe comes resilience. And as one society collapses, another is reborn.]]> 213 Waubgeshig Rice 1770414002 Jonathan 5 3.84 2018
author: Waubgeshig Rice
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.84
book published: 2018
rating: 5
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date added: 2024/11/23
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]]> 22662902 The Inconvenient Indian and his beloved Green Grass, Running Water and Truth and Bright Water, both of which continue to be taught in Canadian schools and universities. Green Grass, Running Water is widely considered a contemporary Canadian classic.

In The Back of the Turtle, Gabriel returns to Smoke River, the reserve where his mother grew up and to which she returned with Gabriel’s sister. The reserve is deserted after an environmental disaster killed the population, including Gabriel’s family, and the wildlife. Gabriel, a brilliant scientist working for DowSanto, created GreenSweep, and indirectly led to the crisis. Now he has come to see the damage and to kill himself in the sea. But as he prepares to let the water take him, he sees a young girl in the waves. Plunging in, he saves her, and soon is saving others. Who are these people with their long black hair and almond eyes who have fallen from the sky?

Filled with brilliant characters, trademark wit, wordplay and a thorough knowledge of native myth and story-telling, this novel is a masterpiece by one of our most important writers.]]> 518 Thomas King 1443431621 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 4.06 2014
author: Thomas King
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> 327232 271 Basil Johnston 0873514114 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 4.24 1995
author: Basil Johnston
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.24
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> 17465709 Braiding Sweetgrass, Kimmerer brings these lenses of knowledge together to show that the awakening of a wider ecological consciousness requires the acknowledgment and celebration of our reciprocal relationship with the rest of the living world. For only when we can hear the languages of other beings are we capable of understanding the generosity of the earth, and learning to give our own gifts in return.]]> 408 Robin Wall Kimmerer 1571313354 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 4.52 2013
author: Robin Wall Kimmerer
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2013
rating: 0
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]]> 75293507
Norris Black, Amber Blaeser-Wardzala, Phoenix Boudreau, Cherie Dimaline, Carson Faust, Kelli Jo Ford, Kate Hart, Shane Hawk, Brandon Hobson, Darcie Little Badger, Conley Lyons, Nick Medina, Tiffany Morris, Tommy Orange, Mona Susan Power, Marcie R. Rendon, Waubgeshig Rice, Rebecca Roanhorse, Andrea L. Rogers, Morgan Talty, D.H. Trujillo, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr., Richard Van Camp, David Heska, Wanbli Weiden, Royce Young, Wolf Mathilda Zeller.

Many Indigenous people believe that one should never whistle at night. This belief takes many forms: for instance, Native Hawaiians believe it summons the Hukai’po, the spirits of ancient warriors, and Native Mexicans say it calls Lechuza, a witch that can transform into an owl. But what all these legends hold in common is the certainty that whistling at night can cause evil spirits to appear—and even follow you home.

These wholly original and shiver-inducing tales introduce listeners to ghosts, curses, hauntings, monstrous creatures, complex family legacies, desperate deeds, and chilling acts of revenge. Introduced and contextualized by bestselling author Stephen Graham Jones, these stories are a celebration of Indigenous peoples�� survival and imagination, and a glorious reveling in all the things an ill-advised whistle might summon.]]> 400 Shane Hawk 0593468465 Jonathan 0 3.90 2023
author: Shane Hawk
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.90
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]]> 61871743 A sweeping and overdue retelling of U.S. history that recognizes that Native Americans are essential to understanding the evolution of modern America
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�� A National Bestseller
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“Eloquent and comprehensive. . . . In the book’s sweeping synthesis, standard flashpoints of U.S. history take on new meaning.”—Kathleen DuVal, Wall Street Journal
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“In accounts of American history, Indigenous peoples are often treated as largely incidental—either obstacles to be overcome or part of a narrative separate from the arc of nation-building. Blackhawk . . . [shows] that Native communities have, instead, been inseparable from the American story all along.”�� Washington Post Book World, “Books to Read in 2023��
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The most enduring feature of U.S. history is the presence of Native Americans, yet most histories focus on Europeans and their descendants. This long practice of ignoring Indigenous history is changing, however, with a new generation of scholars insists that any full American history address the struggle, survival, and resurgence of American Indian nations. Indigenous history is essential to understanding the evolution of modern America.
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Ned Blackhawk interweaves five centuries of Native and non‑Native histories, from Spanish colonial exploration to the rise of Native American self-determination in the late twentieth century. In this transformative synthesis he shows that
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�� European colonization in the 1600s was never a predetermined success;
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�� Native nations helped shape England’s crisis of empire;
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�� the first shots of the American Revolution were prompted by Indian affairs in the interior;
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�� California Indians targeted by federally funded militias were among the first casualties of the Civil War;
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�� the Union victory forever recalibrated Native communities across the West;
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�� twentieth-century reservation activists refashioned American law and policy. ��
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Blackhawk’s retelling of U.S. history acknowledges the enduring power, agency, and survival of Indigenous peoples, yielding a truer account of the United States and revealing anew the varied meanings of America.]]> 596 Ned Blackhawk 0300244053 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 4.15 2023
author: Ned Blackhawk
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 123136728 207 Samantha Harvey 0802161545 Jonathan 0 to-read, 2024-published 3.56 2023
author: Samantha Harvey
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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We meet the sensual Lulu Lamartine, whose children have different fathers, but whose passionate tie to her first love, Nector Kashpaw, intensifies over the years; June Kashpaw, who froze to death in a snowstorm; and the philosophical Lipsha Morrissey, June's abandoned son, who makes a love medicine to keep his grandparents together.]]> 272 Louise Erdrich 0553342495 Jonathan 5 native-america, novel 4.13 1984
author: Louise Erdrich
name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.13
book published: 1984
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/20
date added: 2024/11/20
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]]> 54685608 New York Times bestselling author of The Water Dancer and Between the World and Me, this father-son story explores how boys become men, and quite specifically, how Ta-Nehisi Coates became Ta-Nehisi Coates.

As a child, Ta-Nehisi Coates was seen by his father, Paul, as too sensitive and lacking focus. Paul Coates was a Vietnam vet who'd been part of the Black Panthers and was dedicated to reading and publishing the history of African civilization. When it came to his sons, he was committed to raising proud Black men equipped to deal with a racist society, during a turbulent period in the collapsing city of Baltimore where they lived.

Coates details with candor the challenges of dealing with his tough-love father, the influence of his mother, and the dynamics of his extended family, including his brother "Big Bill," who was on a very different path than Ta-Nehisi. Coates also tells of his family struggles at school and with girls, making this a timely story to which many readers will relate.]]> 176 Ta-Nehisi Coates 1984894021 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.76 2008
author: Ta-Nehisi Coates
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2008
rating: 0
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]]> 597790 The Silmarillion and Unfinished Tales , also edited by Tolkien's son, Christopher, only hinted at the depth and power of the tragic story of Túrin and Niënor, the children of Húrin, the lord of Dor-lómin, who achieved renown for having confronted Morgoth, who was the master of Sauron, the manifestation of evil in the Lord of the Rings.

Six thousand years before the One Ring is destroyed, Middle-earth lies under the shadow of the Dark Lord Morgoth. The greatest warriors among elves and men have perished, and all is in darkness and despair. But a deadly new leader rises, Túrin, son of Húrin, and with his grim band of outlaws begins to turn the tide in the war for Middle-earth -- awaiting the day he confronts his destiny and the deadly curse laid upon him.]]> 315 J.R.R. Tolkien 0007246226 Jonathan 0 to-read 4.04 2007
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name: Jonathan
average rating: 4.04
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]]> 1202154 226 Louise Erdrich 0006546218 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 3.58 1988
author: Louise Erdrich
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.58
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At the center of this struggle is Indigo, who is ripped from her tribe, the Sand Lizard people, by white soldiers who destroy her home and family. Placed in a government school to learn the ways of a white child, Indigo is rescued by the kind-hearted Hattie and her worldly husband, Edward, who undertake to transform this complex, spirited girl into a “proper�� young lady. Bit by bit, and through a wondrous journey that spans the European continent, traipses through the jungles of Brazil, and returns to the rich desert of Southwest America, Indigo bridges the gap between the two forces in her life and teaches her adoptive parents as much as, if not more than, she learns from them.]]> 480 Leslie Marmon Silko 0684863324 Jonathan 0 to-read, native-america 3.92 1999
author: Leslie Marmon Silko
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.92
book published: 1999
rating: 0
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But in recompense for his unhappy condition Latro has received the ability to see and converse with invisible beings, all the gods and goddesses, ghosts and demons and werewolves, who inhabit the land and affect the lives of others, all unseen. Everyone knows that supernatural creatures are constantly around them and sometimes, under special circumstances, can perceive them—but Latro is now constantly able to penetrate the veil of the supernatural, which is both a triumph and a danger.]]> 335 Gene Wolfe 0812558154 Jonathan 0 to-read 3.97 1986
author: Gene Wolfe
name: Jonathan
average rating: 3.97
book published: 1986
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