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Best Books of 2010s

Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2013 Novels

This is a series of reviews of my favorite books published between 2010 and 2019. These are shorter reviews of good reads published in 2013. Rivers by Michael Farris Smith (2013) In the near future, climate change and perpetual storms have forced the US government to abandon the Gulf Coast, and those who remain live without … Continue reading Favorite Books of the 2010s: Quick Takes of 2013 Novels

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December 21, 2019January 4, 20202010s, 2013, Anthology, Apocalyptic literature, AX Ahmad, Contemporary fiction, Domestic suspense, Dystopia, Hanya Yanagihara, Michael Farris Smith, Rivers, Sarah Weinman, Short stories, The Caretaker, The People in the Trees, Thriller, Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives, Women writersLeave 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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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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