Tag: book review
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The Murderbot Diaries vol. 1: All Systems Red
All Systems Red by Martha Wells Rating: 3/5, average I really loved the concept of this, but I wasn’t crazy about the execution. All Systems Red is about a nonbinary asexual robot who went berserk in their last job and killed a bunch of their employers, so in their head they call themselves “murderbot”…
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Sula by Toni Morrison
Diverse Reading Challenge #1 Rating: 4/5, good Sula is a modern classic. It was published in 1973 and is Morrison’s second novel after The Bluest Eye. I tried to read Beloved in college (it was assigned for Helene Moglen’s Gothic Imagination class – by the way, there’s a colloquium in her honor happening in March) but…
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanigahara
Rating: 5/5, excellent This book is amazing. Basically, A Little Life is the story of four men – Jude, Willem, JB, and Malcolm – who we follow over the course of thirty years of friendship. The main character, Jude, has been severely abused as a child and as a teen and only started to…
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Yes, You Are Trans Enough by Mia Violet
Rating: 5/5, amazing I started following Mia Violet on Twitter (@OhMiaGod) once I started being more active on Twitter a year or two ago and she consistently posts good stuff, mostly on trans topics but also on mental health and other subjects. This book is a memoir of Mia’s life from her childhood in a…
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Venus Plus X by Theodore Sturgeon
Rating: 3/5, average Warning: This review contains spoilers! It really ended up being more of a summary than a review because I was having a hard time understanding the plot and I thought others might benefit from seeing the story written out. It’s well-written but there’s a lot of complexity in the language as well…
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Rosewater by Tade Thompson
Rosewater by Tade Thompson Rating: 4/5 This was assigned for my local scifi group. I didn’t finish it in time to make it to the discussion, but I really enjoyed the book. It’s a scifi set in about 2050 in Nigeria after aliens have started to invade Earth. The main character, Kaaro, is one of…
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Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Rating: 4/5, good I was really excited to read this book. I’ve seen Annalee Newitz speak a bit in SF and I was a big fan of i09 while that was still running so I was really curious what they would write. They have a lot of experience in tech journalism and it comes to…
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Quiet by Susan Cain
This isn’t so much a book for introverts to learn how to fit into society as an argument as to why society should change to accept introverts.
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2018-2019 Compilation Post
The end of summer is coming… Fall always feels like a time of reckoning. Harvest. Counting up what happened in the year, good and bad, and getting the books in order for winter. Last year I wrote 19 book reviews on this site and started the Diverse Reading Challenge with The Tale of Genji. It’s about 1000 pages,…