I’ll start this by saying, I really did genuinely enjoy Artemis. It’s just that The Martian set the bar really damn high. Anyone with a passing understanding of the first book or movie knows what they’re getting into – snappy wit, detailed technical science, and insane problems with even crazier solutions. Artemis delivers on every single score, seriously. But somehow a breakneck story about a heist ON THE MOON just started to drag. Weir creates these wonderful worlds just a few technological leaps ahead of our own. Here, […]
Sweet, if a little airy
The dream of the 90s is alive in Portland. And according to author Chelsey Johnson, even the 90s were more 90s in Portland. Stray City is the story of Andrea (Andy) Morales, a young woman abandoned by her biological family when she comes out who seeks out a new family and a place to belong in Portland. It’s all grunge and Lesbian Mafia and family dinners until, for reasons even Andy can’t articulate, she falls into bed with a man. Her regular transgressions remain a secret […]
A necessary celebration of female friendships
The title and book jacket of this one just really roped me in. I fall squarely in the generation that Schaefer is speaking to and about – female, born in the late 80s, Boomer parents, came of age with technology, got a cell phone early. She does this so well because it’s also the generation she belongs to so the book is kind of a lot of anecdotes, but the good kind. It’s nice to read about strong female friendships and the genuine love they inspire. […]
The best way to exist in a story
I got the okay on this one on Twitter but mods please let me know if it doesn’t count. I didn’t listen to the audiobook of Neverwhere but rather the BBC’s radio play adaptation – the one with McAvoy and Dormer? It’s basically the greatest. So the gist of Neverwhere is: everyman Richard Mayhew accidentally stumbles into London Below, a society made up of the people London Above forgot, with danger at every turn. He is sucked into a mission to protect the Lady Door from assassins and […]