A recent transplant to the Triangle area in NC. Main reading goals include literary fiction about modern families, current events nonfiction, scientific speculation, and more.
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Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of …
Relentless pacing that eventually crashes into the wall of its ending. It's pretty great worldbuilding and plotting, but I wish it had cut some of the subplot revolving around the Yellow Dragon Chrysalis and spent more downtime exploring with that pilots do when they're not beating each other senseless.
Science fiction and East Asian myth combine in this dazzling retelling of the rise of Wu Zetian, the only female …
Linus is an uptight caseworker with a heart of gold working for the department in …
Starting strong. I do think Klune is over-relying on Linus' constantly contradicting inner monologue. But it's massaging my appreciation of the Alternate Bureaucracy Trope.
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her life has changed since the …
Staring down the barrel of her fortieth year, Samantha Irby is confronting the ways her …
Irby is a defining essayist to me in the vein of Sedaris or even Andy Rooney. I'm unsure if I would have loved this more or less when I was at my most chaotic period in my mid-twenties, but she has this effect of really reminding me why I'm not fully at home in the suburban spaces society carves out for someone with my educational background. I enjoyed both this and "We Are Never Meeting in Real Life."
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist …
Made me sad and occasionally hopeful. Especially in the first two parts, Bruder threads the needle of investigating a topic that's fraught and acknowledging the economic conditions that are antagonizing these people without painting them as flat victims.
Nomadland: Surviving America in the Twenty-First Century is a 2017 nonfiction book by American journalist Jessica Bruder about the phenomenon …
Ghana, eighteenth century: two half sisters are born into different villages, each unaware of the …
Required reading.
Called it by page 200 of 308. But that's not necessarily because I'm super-clever. Ware does this thing where she telegraphs that a character is a bad person to the reader, but the protagonist is frustratingly too stuck in her own insecurities to realize it. There's a compelling sequence of events and even the framing device adds some intrigue to the first third of the book, but Ware leans on the levers too often and what started out as suspense ends up as melodrama.
At some point in their lives, all young people believe their parents are evil - but what if they really …
While I find some flaws in Zahn's prose, I really enjoyed the plotting. It felt like an organic continuation of this story. Weirdly, if I wish there were more changes to the final draft, it's regarding Mara Jade. Intriguing character, but the reveal about her past oddly lacked atmosphere. It's about as far from the Revelation in Cloud City as you can get. Knowing what I know about where Mara goes next, I kind of wish her obsession with Luke wasn't this...one-dimensional, but I'm still intrigued to see how Zahn develops her further.
The man he knew as “Control” is dead, and the young Turks who forced him out now run the Circus. …
I don't know, Justice Breyer, it sounds like should have published this after you retired.
Examines the development process of such marquee video games as Uncharted 4, Halo Wars, and Destiny, describing the challenges and …
