Unwind is a tale of post-war dystopian America, where the dusts of the Heartland war have finally settled and abortion has been outlawed. To replace it, parents can retroactively “abort” a child between the ages of 13-18, by unwinding them. This process allows the child to technically go on living, but in a divided state and so they’re basically dead if you want to get the gist. There are three main characters: Connor, Risa and Lev. They are each to be unwound, but for separate […]
“It is good to renew one’s wonder, said the philosopher. Space travel has again made children of us all.”
Someone reviewed Dandelion Wine on here a week or two ago, and it reminded me how much I enjoy Bradbury, and how shamefully long it’s been since I’ve reread him. So I grabbed a couple of his short story collections at the library, and dove back in. I started with The Martian Chronicles, which I know I read in middle school but haven’t since then. “The Men of Earth came to Mars. They came because they were afraid or unafraid, because they were happy or unhappy, because they felt like Pilgrims […]
I’m trying to write positive reviews, I promise!
The Forgotten Room is the fourth book in a series about “enigmologist” Jeremy Logan. It’s a bit predictable, but still enjoyable. It does get a bit gruesome (I gasped out loud and said “nononononono” more than once) so if you don’t like reading gore, I’d skip this one. I also recommend skipping if you know a lot about the human brain, since some of the science fiction parts were a bit hard for me to swallow. We start in Scotland, where Logan is holding a […]
The Fastest Man Alive
I have an odd relationship with superheroes. I love the movies and TV shows, to the extent that I recently realized that I watch DC television series four nights a week. However, I’ve never been a comic book reader. I don’t know why really, but I never read them as a kid and don’t really remember my peers reading them. But all of a sudden these movies come out making billions of dollars and everyone I know is debating which minor characters are going to […]
All the Most Annoying Parts
I am a weirdo who watches the films first if there’s a film of a book. Because I’m either going to want to watch it anyway if I like the book, or someone is going to “make me” watch it. By make me, I of course mean enthusiastically encourage me enough that I feel guilty if I don’t and/or adds it to the our Netflix queue so that I watch out of desire for snuggles. Also, if I read the book first, there’s little chance […]
“The best way to know someone is to have a conversation with them.”
Neal Stephenson’s writing process must be insane. This is my third book of his and I am continually astounded by the level of obsessive technical detail present for whichever field happens to be the critical science du jour in each book. Snow Crash took great liberties with neurolinguistics, but it was still clear that Stephenson had done his homework and there was a foundation of knowledge there. Jumping straight to his most recent novel, I found Seveneves stunning, not just because of, again, the amount […]
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