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Point to Point Navigation by Gore Vidal

A Sorrow beyond Dreams by Peter Handke

For Colored Girls... by Ntozake Shange

Madea by Euripides

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Mumbo Jumbo by Ishmael Reed

The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett

Beowulf by Trans. Heaney

Beowulf by Trans. Headley

Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

June 22, 2022 by vel veeter Leave a Comment

Point to Point Navigation – 4/5 This is a second and shorter memoir by Gore Vidal published a few years before he died. It wasn’t right before his death, but you get the impression that he is saying a last few things at least before he begins to wrap up his writing career. His career began when he was about 19 or so when he began writing what would become his first novel, Williwaw, a WWII short novel about a boat in the North Pacific […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Non-Fiction Tagged With: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:333 · Genres: Fiction, Non-Fiction · Tags: Angela Carter, ann leckie, Ayn Rand, Euripides, Gore Vidal, ishmael reed, Kazuo Ishiguro, Ntozake Shange, peter handke, samuel beckett, Trans. Headley, Trans. Heaney ·
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Ancillary Justice

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

February 10, 2022 by vel veeter 1 Comment

I read this when it first came out and had a few abortive attempts to read the rest of the series. I am rereading it now for at least one more go at completing the series. I’ve never been so simultaneously impressed by a book, exhausted by it, kind of annoyed by it, and questioning whether I actually think it’s good or not. That’s pretty impressive. It’s an impeccably written novel. Handling a few literary conceits that are confusing to narrate, confusing to conceive of […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: ann leckie

vel veeter's CBR14 Review No:55 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: ann leckie ·
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Space opera binge – “Nothing touched by empire remains itself”

A Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine

A Desolation Called Peace by Arkady Martine

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

December 30, 2021 by Merryn 3 Comments

              ** Some spoilers for the plot of Ancillary Justice in the review of later books in the series ** Space opera can definitely be big, loud and dumb and that can be fun and exciting.  But I love my space opera to be populated by complex, conflicted people (and other beings) living in intricate worlds with a deep culture and history.  Add beautiful writing, and big questions about identity and ethics, and I am in heaven. So I […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: ann leckie, arkady martine, CBR13, sci-fi, space opera

Merryn's CBR13 Review No:30 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: ann leckie, arkady martine, CBR13, sci-fi, space opera ·
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An intensely human space story

Ancillary Justice by Ann Leckie

May 14, 2021 by kimberleybear 5 Comments

[Read as an audiobook from the public library] Well, we’re straight out of Murderbot and right into some of the most serious big person pants sci-fi I’ve read since I started reading Leviathan Wakes about a hundred years ago. Bite-sized fun time space western this is not. It was some work, and it took some time, but the rewards are definitely ample. Ancillary Justice is on its face a sprawling space opera spanning a thousand years, with weird names and strange planets and ridiculously nuanced cultural […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: ann leckie, Arthur C. Clarke nominee, Hugo Award, imperial radch, Nebula Award, space opera

kimberleybear's CBR13 Review No:15 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: ann leckie, Arthur C. Clarke nominee, Hugo Award, imperial radch, Nebula Award, space opera ·
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The Ancillary trilogy ends with the tremendously satisfying Ancillary Mercy

Ancillary Mercy by Ann Leckie

March 22, 2021 by TylerDFC 2 Comments

Note: Ancillary Mercy is the third book in the Imperial Radch series, following Ancillary Justice and Ancillary Sword. The trilogy is one long story and should be read from the beginning.   I spent a lot of my review for Ancillary Sword snarking about the unpronounceable names of characters and places. I did this because the plot itself was kind of a mess and not super engaging. Apparently, Ann Leckie took my feedback to heart, went back in time, and wrote Ancillary Mercy. It is the only way I can explain the leap […]

Filed Under: Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ancillary mercy, ann leckie, imperial radch, justice of toren, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR13 Review No:9 · Genres: Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, ancillary mercy, ann leckie, imperial radch, justice of toren, TylerDFC ·
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A Tale of Ralph and Carls in the Imperial Radish

Ancillary Sword by Ann Leckie

March 10, 2021 by TylerDFC Leave a Comment

Note: Ancillary Sword is the second book in the Imperial Radch series, following Ancillary Justice. Because I had once been a ship. An AI controlling an enormous troop carrier and thousands of ancillaries, human bodies, part of myself. At the time I had not thought of myself as a slave, but I had been a weapon of conquest… – Ancillary Sword Like most of us on CBR, I read a lot and I read many series at once. Usually, when returning to a series it […]

Filed Under: Fiction, Science Fiction Tagged With: #Science Fiction, ancillary sword, ann leckie, breq, imperial radch, justice of toren, TylerDFC

TylerDFC's CBR13 Review No:8 · Genres: Fiction, Science Fiction · Tags: #Science Fiction, ancillary sword, ann leckie, breq, imperial radch, justice of toren, TylerDFC ·
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