Tag: Recommended Reading
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Reading in February
Time to catch up on recent reads that I can recommend. My first book of February is a brand-new offering from a recent favorite writer of mine, Ben H. Winters. I really admire his niche of combining noir detective stories with speculative scenarios. I’ve read his trilogy set just before a meteor is about to…
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Recommended Reading: Red Clocks
I am reading a lot of books in the “Angry Women” category this year, which seems appropriate for the year of #metoo. My latest read, Red Clocks by Leni Zumas, takes place in an alternate United States (or in the near future?), when a Personhood Amendment to the Constitution has made abortion and in vitro fertilization illegal. It…
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Reading angry women
“I have lived with that anger, on that anger, beneath that anger, on top of that anger … for most of my life.” – Audre Lord “Once upon a time / I had enough anger in me to crack crystal” – Kiki Petrosino “Out of the ash / I rise with my red hair /…
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Reading May 2018: The Power and more
My favorite read this month was The Power by Naomi Alderman, which I gave five stars. It posits what if a power awakens in women, an innate ability to generate electric power, so that they can defend themselves and hurt other people, so that they, in just a few years, become more powerful than men? I found…
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Memoirs in my reading stack…
This year, I’ve been upping the number of memoirs I read, which is surprising to me, because I haven’t been drawn to the genre in the past. But I’ve been having good luck with the ones I’ve chosen lately, and I’ve found each one to be inspiring, in its own way. I would recommend any…
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Reading February-March 2018: Born a Crime and The Reapers Are the Angels
I skipped a month of reading recommendations, mostly because I spent the remainder of this long and lingering winter reading light and pulpy books that were entertaining in the moment but hardly worthy of lasting recommendation. I do have two gems from these two months to pass on to you, however. Continuing my memoir kick,…
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Reading January 2018: Hunger and Sleeping Beauties
I’m trying something a bit different this year, in hopes of keeping the blog more or less regularly updated: posting my reading recommendations at the end of each month. I will share with you my favorite reads of the month, plus other recommendations (and I’ll keep the ‘meh’ reads to myself). My favorite two reads…
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Recommended Reading: Borne
A fable disguised as a dystopia, Borne by Jeff VanderMeer is set in a ruined City on an unnamed Earth, where Rachel scavenges for supplies to give her lover, Wick, who makes biotech to sell to other survivors. The City is ruled by a gigantic bear, Mord, a bio-engineered relic of the once-powerful Company, and a woman known…
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Recommended Reading from the Rooster’s Summer Reading Challenge
I recently posted about the Summer Reading Challenge, a mini Tournament of Books. I discovered two great new reads via this challenge. Marlena by Julie Buntin is a coming-of-age story with such a genuine narrative voice and such well-delineated characters that it takes on all the appearance of truth. After her parents’ divorce, Cat moves with her brother…
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