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The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Hardcover, 2023, HarperCollins)
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, …
Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When she falls afoul of a …
Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When …
This appeals both to my desire to read some fluff, and to my interest in hypothetical pre-industrial supply chain logistics for salt
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko …
This was a frustrating read because I liked so much about it, but I thought it floundered a bit in the second half and also it was just so much. I wish it had done way less and spent more time with the story. I felt like the impact of revelations was diminished by the sheer volume and frequency they came at. The world was really interesting, but important parts didn't feel fleshed out (like the entire government and how it operated, logistically)
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the …
Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of …
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that …
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
I'm really liking this but you'll be shocked to hear that this book about a soldier and a nurse in WWI is pretty bleak so far
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the …
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by …
What an absolute delight. I haven't read this in a decade and didn't realize how thematically in line with Jeeves and Wooster it is
In order to survive the kind of hypocrisy sometimes displayed by otherwise tolerant people when faced with the subject of …
For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …
I didn’t think this book was as strong as the start of the series; it got a little… whimsical? and some of the character dynamics didn’t make a ton of sense to me, but I still was very happy to revisit this
