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The agency william gibson6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() Verity Jane, on the other hand, seems a kind of cipher for the action of the second novel: she basically goes along with everything, and is a fairly empty character as a result. Flynne vibes a punk aesthetic in her refusal to take directions she finds questionable these negations give readers a real sense of who she is as a person. One of the joys of reading The Peripheral is that its female lead, Flynne, kicks serious ass. While Agency shares many of these traits (and thus many of the pleasures associated with them), one significant difference from The Peripheral is found in Verity Jane, Agency’s protagonist. Given the novel’s formal innovations and literary qualities, it is the pace of The Peripheral that is most remarkable, with Gibson moving readers rapidly toward the novel’s utopian conclusion, in thriller-like fashion. The first novel, titled The Peripheral, was a New York Times best seller notable for its heady mixture of drone manipulation, time travel, apocalypse, and alternate history, all these devices being combined in a narrative prose precise in its physical and technological descriptions. ![]() Agency is the second novel of what is almost certainly going to be a trilogy. ![]() NEUROMANCER, COUNT ZERO, Mona Lisa Overdrive Virtual Light, Idoru, All Tomorrow’s Parties Pattern Recognition, Spook Country, Zero History: William Gibson works in threes. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Bazterrica is best when clinically describing the mechanisms of the harvesting process, from breeding to killing to butchering. After one of his clients gives him as a gift a “First Generation Pure” female-captive-bred, non-GMO human livestock-he begins to lust for her, though it’s a capital crime to “enjoy” females meant for breeding. Marcos is a dour character, emotionally hollow after the death of his son and working in a profession he despises to support his ailing father. Marcos Tejo works for a processing plant that slaughters genetically modified humans, or “head,” for consumption. Bazterrica efficiently establishes the premise: an animal-borne virus has led to the mass slaughter of all livestock, forcing the hungry populace to look for protein elsewhere (“At a chilling speed the world was put back together and cannibalism was legitimized”). ![]() Argentine writer Bazterrica’s uneven English-language debut disturbs with a vision of human cruelty and moral flexibility. ![]()
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The Idea of You by Robinne Lee6/29/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() It’s electric, triumphant to read ―Ī beautifully written novel that explores sex, love, romance, and fantasy in moving, insightful ways while also examining a woman’s struggle with aging and sexism, with a nod at the tension between celebrity and privacy. There is no escapism like reading about a nearly middle-aged woman embarking on a glittering, global love affair with a thoughtful young sex god. Indulge your inner teen – dredge up memories of your teenage crush (it was Rob Lowe for me!) and just enjoy this fabulous, racy distraction! Pure, unabashed escapism! Need I say more? She’s the owner of a successful, niche art gallery he’s the lead singer of the biggest boy band in the world, loved by millions of teen girls internationally BUT he only has eyes for her… Having won a meet & greet and front row tickets to a concert with the biggest boy band around, Solne reluctantly takes her daughter and two friends. She’s fast approaching her fortieth birthday he’s not quite twenty-one. Review of The Idea of You by Robinne Lee: Solne is a 39-year old, divorced mom to a teenager. She’s the single mother of a thirteen year old girl he should be studying at Cambridge. She’s sophisticated, petite and stunning he’s intellegent, thoughtful and criminally gorgeous. ![]() She’s American with French parents he’s a proper British boy from a posh public school. ![]()
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![]() ![]() Back on Palace-Earth, political schemes are poisoning the decision-making process, and the very young heir to the throne is in the middle of them. A war with an unknown species is breaking out and the pair need to get involved. Of course, her path forward becomes even more muddy when Three Seagrass shows up on Lsel Station (and the scenes of Three Seagrass attempting to parse Stationer culture are some of the most amusing in the book). Mahit is trying to process all of the events of the previous book when she is quickly thrown into a new situation that forces her to make a hard choice and figure out who her allies are. ![]() Mahit is back on Lsel station, Three Seagrass is in Palace-Earth, and the new emperor is on the throne. I regret nothing, mind, but do want to note that the first book was still fresh in my mind when I read the second book.Ī Desolation Called Peace picks up a couple of months after the events of Empire. ![]() There is never enough time, you know? But when the follow-up – A Desolation Called Peace – hit my in-box, I read the first few pages and was so hooked that I went back to hoover up A Memory Called Empire before diving into A Desolation Called Peace. A Desolation Called Peace, Arkady Martine ( Tor 978-1250186461, $26.99, 496pp, hc) March 2021.ĭespite how many readers raved about it, I didn’t manage to read Arkady Martine’s multi-award winning A Memory Called Empire when it first came out. ![]()
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Four hundred souls by ibram x kendi6/29/2023 ![]() Love 1674-1679 : Bacon's rebellion / by Heather C. Morgan 1664-1669 : the Virginia law on baptism / by Jemar Tisby 1669-1674 : the royal African company / by David A. 1659-1664 : Elizabeth Keye / by Jennifer L. Parker Poem : "upon arrival" by Jericho Brown Stevenson 1644-1649 : Anthony Johnson, colony of Virginia / by Maurice Carlos Ruffin 1649-1654 : the Black family / by Heather Andrea Williams 1654-1659 : unfree labor / by Nakia D. Hill 1639-1644 : Black women's labor / by Brenda E. ![]() 1619-1624 : arrival / by Nikole Hannah-Jones 1624-1629 : Africa / by Molefi Kete Asante 1629-1634 : whipped for lying with a Black woman / by Ijeoma Oluo 1634-1639 : tobacco / by Damaris B. ![]() A community of souls : an introduction / by Ibram X. ![]()
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The tell tale heart book6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() The narrator’s pretense to sanity, however, is undermined by the passionless and objectless nature of the crime. ![]() The narrator, who suffers from an “acuteness of the senses,” justifies his sanity by illustrating the methodical and systematic efforts he took to execute the murder. To this end, the narrator vividly recalls the events leading up to the eventual murder. Despite openly acknowledging the role he played in carrying out the crime, the narrator seems far more concerned with proving his sanity, rather than his innocence. The “Tell-Tale Heart” begins with an unnamed narrator confessing to the murder of an elderly neighbor. The Tell-Tale Heart,” like Poe’s other works, is concerned with understanding the emotion of fear, the psychology of mental illness, and the interaction between mental and bodily processes. ![]()
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A Practical Wedding by Meg Keene6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() Meg Keene has put together the (practical) companion to A Practical Wedding : smart, clear focused guidance,with a hefty does of reassurance,to help you plan your big day.From figuring out what you really want,as opposed to what everyone else thinks you should want,to help you keep an eye on the ceremony itself and the vows (a.k.a. Whichever it is, when you're ready to take a deep breath and start planning, this is the book you want,need,to have. Or maybe you haven't made anything exactly official yet, but you know you want to spend your lives together. ![]() You just got engaged! Or you've been engaged for a while but are finally sitting down to plan this party. ![]()
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Stephen King's N. by Marc Guggenheim6/28/2023 ![]() ![]() But how far down the rabbit hole will he follow his patient.and what monsters lie at the bottom? [Brought to life by MARC GUGGENHEIM (AMAZING SPIDER-MAN) and ALEX MALEEV (SPIDER-WOMAN).Ĭardstock Cover/Parental Advisory. He begins exhibiting the same symptoms as "N."-insomnia, obsessive compulsive tendencies-and finds the questions of "N."s all-consuming condition. But following the suicide of his patient, Bonsaint is finding the curious case of "N." is plaguing him night and day. ![]() ![]() STEPHEN KING PRESENTS A TERRIFYING TALE OF MAGIC AND MADNESS! Can you catch a mental illness the same way you can catch a cold? Until he met patient "N.", Doctor John Bonsaint would have said that such an idea was ridiculous. A native of Long Island, New York, Guggenheim is an Emmy Award-winning writer and producer of television shows (ARROW, DC'S LEGENDS OF TOMORROW, TROLLHUNTERS, CARNIVAL ROW), movies (GREEN LANTERN, PERCY JACKSON - SEA OF MONSTERS), comic books (X-MEN GOLD, BLADE), video games (CALL OF DUTY 3, SINGULARITY), and novels (OVERWATCH). ![]()
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Good Christian Bitches by Kim Gatlin6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() The series starred Kristin Chenoweth, Leslie Bibb, Miriam Shor and Marisol Nichols and lasted one season.ĭiscover your new favorite show: Watch This Now! If this sounds familiar, it's because Star and Kaplan already teamed up for this series in 2010 when ABC bought it and took it to series, but pressure from conservative Christian groups forced the network to ultimately change the name to GCB. ![]() Deadline reports Younger creator Darren Star and super producer Aaron Kaplan are teaming up to adapt Kim Gatlin's "semi-autobiographical" novel about Flock, a "hip church" in Austin where prayers and music are just a cover for the secrets and sins happening within the congregation, to life at The CW. ![]() Good Christian Bitches is coming to TV (again), but it's going to be a lot seedier this time around. ![]()
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The quantum thief6/27/2023 ![]() ![]() ![]() "Prisons are always the same, don't you think?" ![]() It is a stunning debut.Ĭhapter 1: The Thief and the Prisoner's DilemmaĪs always, before the warmind and I shoot each other, I try to make small talk. The Quantum Thief is a dazzling hard SF novel set in the solar system of the far future - a heist novel peopled by bizarre post-humans but powered by very human motives of betrayal, revenge and jealousy. She offers him a chance to win back his freedom and the powers of his old self - in exchange for finishing the one heist he never quite managed. Jean's routine of death, defection and cooperation is upset by the arrival of Mieli and her spidership, Perhonen. Now he is condemned to play endless variations of a game-theoretic riddle in the vast virtual jail of the Axelrod Archons - the Dilemma Prison - against countless copies of himself. His origins are shrouded in mystery, but his exploits are known throughout the Heterarchy - from breaking into the vast Zeusbrains of the Inner System to steal their thoughts, to stealing rare Earth antiques from the aristocrats of the Moving Cities of Mars. Jean le Flambeur is a post-human criminal, mind burglar, confidence artist and trickster. ![]() A Crash Course in the History of Black Science Fiction.200 Significant SF Books by Women, 1984-2001. ![]() |