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For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as Breq.
Then a search of …
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
Seeking atonement for past crimes, Breq takes on a mission as captain of a troublesome new crew of Radchai soldiers, …
On a remote, icy planet, the soldier known as Breq is drawing closer to completing …
I've been on a bit of a re-reading kick and this was so fun to revisit
The ultimate guide to the smells of the universe – the ambrosial to the malodorous, …
We usually describe the smell [of blood] as "metallic" because it's similar to the smell left on our fingers when we handle coins, or in the air when we scrub a bare metal pan or sink. ... Our hominid ancestors would have known that molecule [epoxy decenal] and smell long before they paid much attention to rocks and ores, so for much of our prehistory, they may well have experienced metals as bloody-smelling.
— Nose Dive by Harold McGee
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. This gave him plenty to …
Fetter was raised to kill, honed as a knife to cut down his sainted father. …
“You have to be careful in the city,” she says. “They have laws against sodomy.” “If they do, they don’t enforce them,” Fetter says. “I see a lot of people together—“ “That’s not how laws work, son,” she says. “A visible law is a ploy, a little play. A mummery in waiting, waiting for you to become interesting. Never give them a reason to care who you are.”
The Last Unicorn is a fantasy novel by American author Peter S. Beagle and published in 1968, by Viking Press …
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town …
dead parents and john prine; they got my number for this one
A grim and gothic new tale from author Alix E. Harrow about a small town haunted by secrets that can't …
Volume 1 of The Mirror Visitor Quartet
Winner of the Grand Prix de l’Imaginaire
Where …
This really did not hold up to a reread; perhaps knowing how disappointing I found the later books colored it. But it was an escape when I needed one.
One of the most remarkable true-crime narratives of the twenty-first century: the story of the …
This was a delightful quick read; lively and engaging and ultimately sad
It's a bit of a downer to search online for anything related to this book, actually, because the search engines are making jumps they've seen other people interested in the book make, so if I look one thing up, I get something related to another Cain's Jawbone thing, but if I go to the Wikipedia page (or whatever), there's no actual mention of what I searched. The only connection is that other people who are looking up Cain's Jowbone things think they are connected. It's not an interesting way to explore a puzzle.
