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Star Wars: A New Dawn by John Jackson Miller

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This is the first Star Wars novel that I’ve read which is surprising considering I grew up with the franchise and played the table top RPG. I can’t say I loved this book but I would definitely read another novelization if it sounded interesting. I believe I first heard of this one on a list of the quintessential Star Wars novels and I don’t particularly agree. It has issues with pacing and the plot is more complicated that it strictly needs to be, but it’s […]

An Attempt Was Made

Ready Player Two by Ernest Cline

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  Well that happened. I enjoyed RP1, though I am aware of the criticism thrown its way. It was essentially a love letter to Gen X white men but dammit it was FUN and it had an underdog protagonist you could root for. Let me quickly sum up the Ready Player Two for you; take the plot of RP1, raise the stakes but take away the fun of the first book, turn your protagonist into a petty billionaire and try to cram even more eighties […]

“I’m a gallery of broken hearts”

Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi

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  Yaa Gyasi’s first novel, Homegoing, was a sprawling family saga about a family whose point of origin was Ghana. Though the family in Transcendent Kingdom also hails from there, this book is nothing like its predecessor. Rather than than span though generations, this book’s main focus is on one person as she deals with the pain and loss her family deals with after coming to America in search of a better life. Gifty is a neuroscience candidate at Stanford studying reward seeking behavior in […]

“She’s my Small Wonder. I’m her Voltron”

The Windup Girl by Paolo Bacigalupi

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This is a book that I wish had been made into a series. The world of The Windup Girl is strange and serpentine and by the time I was fully immersed in it and was truly in the flow of the story things were heading toward the conclusion. There are other stories in the “windup universe” but no other full length novels. Nonetheless this biopunk environmental cautionary tale contains dynamic characters, political intrigue and lots of fascinating moving parts that lead the reader to a […]

“Don’t you hear the bugle call?”

Maisie Dobbs by Jacqueline Winspear

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Maisie Dobbs was part of my early effort to read lighter fare in order to forget the pandemic (I read this back at the end of March) and it was more or less successful. Over all I liked the book and the main character and I’ll definitely read the next in the series. Though I admit the pacing of this first book is a bit off which happens frequently when you’re dealing with the initial book in the series. Setting the stage and giving the […]



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