Axiom's End by Lindsay Ellis
Totally on accident, I have now read three alien invasion/first contact books in a row. (I did try to read a Nalini Singh in the middle and put it down in annoyance – sorry, gang!) But it was interesting to see the variety of stories: far in the future with scenes set on spaceships and other planets … [Read more]
Offshore by Penelope Fitzgerald
Offshore "'Are we to gather that Dreadnought is asking us to do something dishonest?' Richard asked." I first read this book a few years ago in specifically addressing a desire to read all the Booker Prize winners. One of the issues with that task (other being kind of silly and useless) is … [Read more]
When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamin Labatut
This book was a curiosity to me - a “blend of fiction and historical fact” is how it was most often described. But how is that going to work? Truthfully, I read almost exclusively genre fiction, and sometimes feel like I’m missing out or disconnected from the real world - I picked this up wondering … [Read more]
The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir by Lynn Curlee
CBR15Passport Different genres (Nonfiction as memoir) Holy Flying Monkeys! The Other Pandemic: An AIDS Memoir was not what I expected. My first thought was, “Um…do we really need a book about AIDS? Didn’t we already “do that?” But then I realized two things, first it was a memoir and … [Read more]
A Man Without a Country by Kurt Vonnegut
Lysistrata by Aristophanes
The Old Woman with the Knife by Gu Byeong-mo
The Hole by Pye-young Pyun
A Man without a Country "As a kid, I was the youngest member of my family, and the youngest child in any family is always a jokemaker, because a joke is the only way he can enter into adult conversation." This is one of the last things that Kurt Vonnegut published in his lifetime. He's also … [Read more]
Black Beach: A Community, an Oil Spill, and the Origin of Earth Day by Shaunna and John Stith
I was in college (early to mid-1990’s) when I first heard of Earth Day. Yet, it was started in the 1970’s. How did I miss this event all those years? I mean around 20 or more years this event had been celebrated. In the end, maybe it is not important when I learned about it, but that I did and I … [Read more]
