Tag: Ancillary Sword

• Popular Books Read and Unread in 2015

  I like to track my reading in multiple ways, for which I use the various OCD tracking tools on LibraryThing. One way is to track what I read during the year as compared to what others were reading during the same period (here’s the list). It interests me to see what trends emerge. Here are…

  Shannon Turlington

  January 5, 2016

  Reading

  Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie, Annihilation, Best of 2015, Book of Strange New Things, Dept. of Speculation, Emily St. John Mandel, Jeff VanderMeer, Jenny Offill, Life-Changing Magic of Tidying Up, Marie Kondo, Men Explain Things to Me, Michel Faber, Popular books, Reading, Rebecca Solnit, Station Eleven

• Recommended reading: Ancillary Justice

  Today, I’m recommending Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie. If you like space opera, political intrigue, or complex plots that turn assumptions upside down, I think you’ll like this book. And I believe the sequel, Ancillary Sword, is newly out–no waiting!

  Shannon Turlington

  November 7, 2014

  Reading

  Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, Ann Leckie, Imperial Radch, Space opera