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New Posting Format
I’m learning more about what I want to get out of writing book reviews, so I’m changing up my format a little.
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The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
The Bell Jar may have saved my life, even if it didn’t save Sylvia Plath’s.
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Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
The tech industry is pretty garbage for a lot of reasons. Anna Wiener walks readers through some of those reasons.
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Certain Streets at an Uncertain Hour by Jeff Tigchelaar
I’m 90% sure this is the guy who came to Ohio University Writer’s Harvest one year while I was in college and looked up at the ceiling of the fancy building before his reading and said “Wow. That’s *some* dome.”
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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
I didn’t register this book as dystopian fiction when I read it. So many of its ‘dystopian’ qualities reflect aspects of everyday life in a world afflicted by a pandemic and late-stage capitalism.
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A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
A tale with a classic theme told like a folk legend, but not my favorite Le Guin.
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Sabriel by Garth Nix
A straightforward adventure structure made memorable by vivid worldbuilding and exquisite dread.
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The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin
I didn’t hate it, but I think the single best descriptor for it is “unsubtle.”
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Dune by Frank Herbert
I didn’t like Dune while I was reading it. But I kept thinking about it for days after I finished it.
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The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
This book will punch me in the gut every time I read it.
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