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This one is for thinking, not for fun

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

June 11, 2020 by CoffeeShopReader 1 Comment

I wish I’d had more time with this novel but I had to give An Unkindness of Ghosts back to the library because someone else requested it. This means I may have had to rush reading a little and thus may not be as particular about the style and details as I might otherwise be. Here’s why this matters: this is not one of those books you read and enjoy. This is one of those books you read, either don’t exactly like or quite understand […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, queer, Race, Rivers Solomon, space fiction, Speculative Fiction, The Future is Queer

CoffeeShopReader's CBR12 Review No:49 · Genres: Book Club, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, queer, Race, Rivers Solomon, space fiction, Speculative Fiction, The Future is Queer ·
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A Colossal Disappointment

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

June 8, 2020 by surebitch 12 Comments

I have to admit that sometimes my mind is foggy. I love reading, but some days, my reading comprehension is lower than usual, and if I return to passages later I see there are tiny details I missed that make the story come together. I am hoping that this is what happened with An Unkindness of Ghosts, because I can’t make sense of it otherwise. I loved the first part of this book. It wasn’t an easy read, especially not right now, when any black […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

surebitch's CBR12 Review No:6 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon ·
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The perfect emotional gut-punch for the time (my June #CannonBookClub pick)

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

June 4, 2020 by Aquillia 3 Comments

In contrast to my last book review, where I thought reading about a plague probably wasn’t the best read for the current time, An Unkindness of Ghosts is the perfect book to read during this week especially. More than that, it is an important book to read during this week. And I am completely, utterly, devastatingly unqualified to review it. An Unkindness of Ghosts is an emotional gut-punch throughout. The premise alone is brilliant: a spaceship, the Matilda, is taking the remnants of humanity to an unknown destination, a […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon

Aquillia's CBR12 Review No:8 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Rivers Solomon ·
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Reminder! The Future is Queer #CannonBookClub is Coming Soon!

April 14, 2020 by faintingviolet 2 Comments

We’re a little more than two months out from our next book club on June 19th and 20th. For our June book club  we’ll be celebrating Pride Month the Cannonball way with a The Future is Queer book club focusing on speculative and science fiction written by queer authors and/or featuring queer characters.  Since the world has gone into a more protective mode in response to our current pandemic, books might be a little harder to come by, or you may have found your reading […]

Filed Under: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Speculative Fiction, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Genres: Book Club, Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Becky Chambers, book club, Cannon Book Club, faintingviolet, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Speculative Fiction, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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Announcing 2020 #CannonBookClub Topics and Dates!

February 6, 2020 by faintingviolet 1 Comment

For CBR12 we’re planning three book clubs that we hope will inspire you to pick up a new to you book or reread something and consider it again. On March 20th and 21st we’ll celebrate five years of #CannonBookClub and revisit our first book – Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. We have lots of new faces, as well as plenty of us who have been around since Cannonball Read 7 so it seemed the perfect time to revisit one of my favorite books […]

Filed Under: Book Club, News from MsWas Tagged With: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet

Genres: Book Club, News from MsWas · Tags: #CannonballBookClub, An Unkindness of Ghosts, Book Announcement, Emily St. John Mandel, Farah Naz Rishi, I Hope You Get This Message, LGBTQ, M.K. England, Rivers Solomon, Station Eleven, the disasters, The Future is Queer, The Glass Hotel, The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet ·
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I taught you better than to open doors you can’t close

An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon

January 20, 2019 by Dusty Highway 2 Comments

Rivers Solomon’s An Unkindness of Ghosts is yet another great example of the kind of book I would have missed had I not started reading more speculative fiction and diversifying the voices in my library. That would have been a pity, because this complex, powerful novel may very well end up at the top of my 2019 favorites list. After Earth suffered an unnamed cataclysm 300 years ago, the remnants of humanity were crowded onto the spaceship Matilda and launched toward some long-forgotten destination. Humanity […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, cbr11, gender, kindred, LBGT, Racism, Religion, Rivers Solomon, Sexuality, Slavery, snowpiercer, space opera, Speculative Fiction

Dusty Highway's CBR11 Review No:3 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction, Speculative Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, An Unkindness of Ghosts, cbr11, gender, kindred, LBGT, Racism, Religion, Rivers Solomon, Sexuality, Slavery, snowpiercer, space opera, Speculative Fiction ·
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