Tag: read in 2021
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Dune Messiah by Frank Herbert
Dune Messiah suffers from the same lack of micro-level finesse as Dune, except in Dune 2 that’s basically the whole book.
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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
Easily my favorite book of 2021, The Poisonwood Bible is a decades-spanning epic that I’ll keep for the rest of my life.
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I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara
This was easily my least favorite book of the 53 I read in 2021. It is possibly my least favorite book that I have read by choice in my adult life.
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His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman
This series has expertly constructed plot, complex characters, and a giant armored bear. And it made me cry at least 3 times.
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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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