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Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

Today's reading list features that stalwart genre of anxious times: the dystopia. I've tried to collect some newer and more unusual examples for this list, rather than the old standards that you see on every list. Not only are these novels prime escapist fare, but they serve as a helpful reminder that things could always … Continue reading Now’s a Good Time for a Dystopia

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April 9, 2020Books, Cherie Priest, China Mieville, Claire Vaye Watkins, Dave Eggers, David Mitchell, Dexter Palmer, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Margaret Atwood, Michel Faber, Paolo Bacigalupi, PD James, Reading list, Science fictionLeave a comment
Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: Slade House by David Mitchell

This is a series of book reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. Slade House by David Mitchell (2015) Every nine years on the last Saturday in October, a mysterious iron door appears in the wall of Slade Alley. If you open it--and you should hope you don't--you'll find yourself in an impossible … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Slade House by David Mitchell

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December 26, 2019December 13, 20192010s, David Mitchell, Ghost stories, Slade House, SlipstreamLeave a comment
Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell (2014) Mitchell's latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. The story begins in 1984 England as fifteen-year-old Holly Sykes is … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell

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December 23, 2019December 13, 20192010s, David Mitchell, Slipstream, The Bone ClocksLeave a comment
Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell (2010) Jacob de Zoet is a trader with the Dutch East India Company who has come to the trading post Dejima, in the harbor of Nagasaki, Japan, in the eighteenth century. … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell

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December 14, 20192010s, David Mitchell, Historical fiction, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de ZoetLeave a comment
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Recommended: Slade House by David Mitchell

A new recommended read: Slade House by David Mitchell. Every nine years on the last Saturday in October, a mysterious iron door appears in the wall of Slade Alley. If you open it--and you should hope you don't--you'll find yourself in an impossible garden looking at the back of Slade House, at a place where it absolutely … Continue reading Recommended: Slade House by David Mitchell

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November 20, 2015July 15, 2016David Mitchell, Haunted houses, Slade HouseLeave a comment
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Favorite Reads of 2014

I was going to do a whole "year in reading" post, but I got sucked into other things and now I find the year has already turned over. Happy new year! Here are my favorite reads of last year. Many are relatively new, some are classics, all are worth your time. The Sundial by Shirley … Continue reading Favorite Reads of 2014

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January 1, 201513 Clocks, Allie Brosh, Ancillary Justice, Ann Leckie, Ann Patchett, Big Sleep, Burn Palace, Charlotte's Web, China Mountain Zhang, Cold Comfort Farm, David Mitchell, Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night, Hyperbole and a Half, In the Woods, James and the Giant Peach, Maureen F McHugh, Michael Farris Smith, Raymond Chandler, Reading, Revival, Rivers, Shirley Jackson, State of Wonder, Stella Gibbons, Stephen Dobyns, Stephen King, Tana French, The Bone Clocks, The SundialLeave a comment
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Recommended Reading: The Bone Clocks

Today I am recommending The Bone Clocks by David Mitchell. Mitchell's latest novel is a genre-bending epic spanning sixty years, about the people whose fates are altered by an ongoing war between immortals. This one is going to make a lot of "Best of 2014" lists. The book grew on me a lot after I was done reading it. I … Continue reading Recommended Reading: The Bone Clocks

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December 3, 2014July 15, 2016David Mitchell, Slipstream, The Bone ClocksLeave a comment
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Cli-Fi: Fiction about climate change

I have just discovered a new genre: cli-fi, or climate change fiction. Set in the present or near future, these novels imagine a changed world once the effects of climate change are really beginning to be felt. It's not such a new genre to me, after all. I read David Brin's Earth and Kim Stanley Robinson's Forty Signs … Continue reading Cli-Fi: Fiction about climate change

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November 14, 2014May 4, 2015Apocalyptic literature, Cli-Fi, Climate change, David Brin, David Mitchell, Earth, Forty Signs of Rain, Ian McEwan, Kim Stanley Robinson, Margaret Atwood, Michael Farris Smith, Oryx and Crake, Reading list, Rivers, Solar, The Bone Clocks1 Comment

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