I liked this novel by Margaret Atwood, although I don’t think it’s one of her best. I had a hard time buying into the concept of the story, and she lost me a little when the story turned in a direction I wasn’t expecting. Still, this is Margaret Atwood we’re talking about, and any new…
This week’s Top Ten Tuesday, hosted by The Broke and The Bookish, is our Fall To-Be-Read (TBR) List. I thought about not doing a Fall TBR List because I’ve had list burn-out lately, but there are two events this fall I want to participate in, so I built my list around those events. Readers Imbibing…
Despite the violence, I loved this book. Here’s why. The Water Knife is set in the near future, in a time when drought in the Western U.S. means that some cities have to dry up in order for others to survive. There’s sort of a mix of lawlessness and martial law, which means basically, those…
So many people have read and reviewed this book, I don’t feel I need to. But I’ll give you my perspective on it. When my husband read this last year, I asked if he thought I’d like it. He said it was probably too technical, too much on the “hard” science fiction side (meaning it…
I’m afraid this was a book I wanted to love but didn’t. Like A.J. Fikry, it comes highly recommended from bloggers I respect. It fell flat for me. My first big problem with this book: major story flaw. This is a book about a highly advanced alien race that comes to Earth to stop humans…
No doubt you’ve already heard about Wool. I’d read a lot of good reviews and my husband highly recommended it – and still it exceeded my expectations. Wool is hard to put down. It starts out with this really eerie description of a future civilization that is living in a silo because the air outside…
The Sparrow is a highly acclaimed science fiction novel by Mary Doria Russell, her first novel. Written in 1996, it won numerous awards including the Arthur C. Clarke Award. The book begins in the year 2060. It describes a mission of Jesuit Priests that were sent out to make contact with aliens on another planet.…
Among Others is sort of an odd book – it’s fantasy but at the it’s the author’s homage to science fiction. Morwenna is fifteen and has run away from her abusive mother. She recently lost her twin sister in some kind of showdown with their mother, and now she must depend on a father she…
Parasite was a really cool science fiction/ bio-medical thriller. As I was reading it reminded me a lot of Orphan Black. You’ve got an evil corporation, bio-technology that can do very good and very bad things, and a lot of mystery. And like Orphan Black this book keeps you on your toes and never dumbs…
This book was so different from anything I’ve read lately. It’s near-future science fiction set in India and Africa, and written in a really lyrical way. It’s the story of two characters, both on a journey. Meena is a troubled young woman who has just been attacked by a snake in her bed, which for…
I wanted to take a minute to send people to I09’s list of summer reads in science fiction and fantasy. I love their book lists because they cover so many different types of books. Whether you read science fiction or fantasy, it seems like there’s something for everyone here, and not just the usual suspects. …
In the last couple of months I’ve read more than series books than usual. I don’t like reviewing series after the first book, because (1) it’s too spoilerish and (2) because series books are usually pretty fluffy and there isn’t much to say about them. I have a class ending next week and I’ve been…
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