by Jennifer Egan
★★★
Tag archives: fiction
Come and Get It
by Kiley Reid
★★★★
There There
by Tommy Orange
★★★½
The English Understand Wool
by Helen DeWitt
Can’t help but try my hand at adding to the collection of maltranslations.
As much as I would like to convey small-town life to you across two hundred pages, I wouldn’t have the barbarity to make you suffer through the garrulousness and sly barbs of provincial conversation. Me, … Read more
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
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology
Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr. (Editors)
- “Kushtuka” Mathilda Zeller ★★★½
- “White Hills” Rebecca Roanhorse ★★★½
- “Navajos Don’t Wear Elk Teeth” Conley Lyons ★★★½
- “Wingless” Marcie R. Rendon ★★★
- “Quantum” Nick Medina ★★★
- “Hunger” Phoenix Boudreau ★★★½
- “Tick Talk” Cherie Dimaline ★★★
- “The Ones Who Killed Us” Brandon Hobson DNF
The Gilda Stories
by Jewelle Gomez
★★★½
The Emergent
(Cosmic #2)
by Nadia Afifi
My patience for reading action/thriller got used up. Amira is friends with cops. Hadrian’s linguistic affectation, for someone who moved to the States when he was twelve, is still obnoxious.
Personal Attention Roleplay
by H. Felix Chau Bradley
★★★½
Touched
by Walter Mosley
★★
Moon of the Turning Leaves
(Moon of the.. #2)
Waubgeshig Rice
★★★★
We Are the Crisis
Convergence Saga #2
Cadwell Turnbull
★★★★
An Echo in the City
by K.X. Song
★★★½
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
Let Us Descend
by Jesmyn Ward
★★★½
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
A Thief in the Night
by K.J. Charles
★★★½
Passion simple
Annie Ernaux
L’histoire d’une femme qui n’a pas d’autre identité que son obsession pour un homme indisponible et vide de personnalité. Une obsession telle qu’elle ne se lave pas pour conserver son sperme, qu’elle part dans des délires impliquant une femme qu’elle a vue dans un magazine et qu’elle reste figée … Read more
Lost Places
by Sarah Pinsker
- “Two Truths and a Lie” ★★★
- “That Our Flag Was Still There” ★★★
- “I Frequently Hear Music in the Very Heart of Noise” DNF
- “The Court Magician” ★★★
- “Everything Is Closed Today” ★★★
- “Left the Century to Sit Unmoved” ★★★
- “Escape from Caring Seasons” ★★★¼
- “A Better Way
Murder Among Friends
by Lange Lewis
★★½