I don’t even know where to start because this book made way too little sense and was too long for how little sense it made. If you’re a fan of pretty language and absurdist geographies and worlds (basically, if you like China Miéville), you’d probably love Catherynne M Valente’s book. As it’s got lots of … Continue reading
AWWW MANNN. Post-apocalyptic stories rarely end well, and I guess this is the same. Without giving too much away, it has a SAD ENDING. Emmi Itäranta’s novel centres around Noria Kaitio, a tea master in New Qian, the Scandinavian Union. Basically, it is about 1000 years post-oil-environmental crash and it looks like the world has … Continue reading
I have many feels about this book. I can’t really tell you why because it would basically ruin the ending for you. BUT OMG THE FEELS. So Resistance is Futile by Jenny T Colgan is pretty straight forward plot-wise. It’s very easy to read (I basically read it in a morning commute + evening). There … Continue reading
Where to begin. There’s such a collision of genres with Nicole Kornher-Stace’s novel that could have gone horribly wrong, but instead it just made me have ALL THE FEELS. It was good on the level of The Doomsday Book or Ancillary Justice. It was just expectation-defyingly excellent in a way that I’m having problems articulating. … Continue reading
Ummm So, I don’t think Joanna Russ’ book a normal novel. I don’t know what it is. Maybe a stream of consciousness feminist rant that takes place across multiple parallel universes? There are four women, who cross over into each other’s earths, all which have had a different history. Janet’s Earth has no men, they … Continue reading
For the last 100 pages of this book, I was mainly making incoherent noises at @psythor as all the shit kicked off in the book, with the whole arc of the story winding its way to the end. Most of the incoherent noises were either something along the lines of “omfg they’re so adorable” or … Continue reading
Yay! I read a book! I’m currently neck-deep in PhD writing and so haven’t been reading that much outside of that area. However, this weekend I was going to take a break and read something fun. I bought The Three-Body Problem on a wander through Forbidden Planet not that long ago but still hadn’t read … Continue reading
So, I’m going to start off with a slightly annoyed tangent. When in Toronto at the beginning of this month, we went to a bookstore. I was perusing the science fiction novels and decided I wanted something written by a woman. Nothing on the shelf jumped out (there were the usual familiar names) and so … Continue reading
The ends of the earth is the smooshing together of two anthologies about the arctic and antarctic. It’s a mixture of both the best fiction and non-fiction stories about these two interesting places. I think I preferred the old journals of the first explorers and the science excerpts more than any of the non-fiction prose. … Continue reading
Or the original title, All you need is kill. So, if you’ve seen the film, this has the same basic premise. Alien invaders, leads to massive war, but killing one weird type of alien puts the main character, Keiji, in a time loop. In the movie, Keiji is of course, played by Tom Cruise. In … Continue reading
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