All the Lives I Want: Essays about My Best Friends Who Happen to Be Famous Strangers by Alana Massey ★★★
The Complete Guide to Water Storage How to Use Gray Water and Rainwater Systems, Rain Barrels, Tanks, and Other Water Storage Techniques for Household and Emergency Use by Julie Fryer ★★★
New Voices in Chinese Science Fiction by Xia Jia, Regina Kanyu Wang, Neil Clarke (Editors) “My Family and Other Evolving Animals” by Shuang Chimu ★★★¼ “By Those Hands” by Congyun “Mu Ming” Gu ★★★★ “Pixiu” by Shi Heiyao ★★★ “The Postman” by Liao Shubo ★★¾
Be a Revolution: How Everyday People Are Fighting Oppression and Changing the World—And How You Can, Too by Ijeoma Oluo ★★★
Multiverses: An Anthology of Alternate Realities by Preston Grassmann (Editor) “Banish” Alastair Reynolds DNF “Cracks” Chana Porter ★★★★ “A Threshold Hypothesis” Jayaprakash Satyamurthy DNF “Crunchables” Ian Mcdonald ★★★½ “Quorum’s Eye” Alvaro Zinos-Amaro ★★★¼ “Nine Hundred Grandmothers” Paul Di Filippo ★★★ “Days of Magic, Nights of War” Clive Barker ★★ “A Brief History of the Trans-Pacific Tunnel” Ken … Read more
The Book of Witches by Jonathan Strahan (Editor) “What Is a Witch?” Jonathan Strahan ★½ “Seed of Power” Linda D. Addison ★★ “What I Remember of Oresha Moon Dragon Devshrata” P. Djèlí Clark ★★★½ “The Luck Thief” Tade Thompson ★★★½ “Good Spells” Ken Liu ★★★ “The Liar” Darcie Little Badger ★★★★★ “Met Swallow” Cassandra Khaw … Read more
Vulcan’s Glory by D.C. Fontana The writing is easy to devour even with apparent tv beats, senseless plot points, and 60s sensibilities including introducing every character like a lech