“Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light.” An envoy, Ai, from outer space arrives at a planet create an alliance between them and the planet Winter. This new society differs vastly from his own; the inhabitants are bisexual and enter kemmer where there sex changes to either male or female and they may procreate. Every citizen has the possibility of becoming pregnant and there is no difference in who might carry which task. This premise in itself is […]
50 shades of “oh my, no! Really?! Yikes…Oh come on!”
Never has a book seduced me like this. It was page up and page down of sexy sexy seductioness. Christian wants Anastasia to eat all the food. Several times they eat pancakes and there is always bacon. They visit an IHOP for Christ’s sake! How is that fair to a girl like me, an ex-pat that can’t just visit an IHOP whenever I crave maple pancakes with delicious creamy syrup? How is my boyfriend supposed to compete with that? My relationship has lost its shine. […]
The circle of life
The first page of this book contains a family tree and upon seeing it my heart sank. I am not one for books that are so complex that they require external charts and diagrams to keep track of everything. But when I started reading I forgave the book completely. The main protagonist is not a person as much as it is a family and the town they establish; the town is completely isolated and in a sense so is the family. All the characters in […]
Another post-apocalyptic exploration of people
“What am I living for and what am I dying for are the same question.” The novel begins in Year 25, the year of the flood. The story of what made year zero the starting point is left to the imagination of the reader, as are the details of “the waterless flood”. However, since the story explores the same time period as the events of Oryx and Crake it is quickly presumed that it is the pandemic murder that took place there. The events are […]