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Deep Wheel Orcadia – by Harry Josephine Giles
Deep Wheel Orcadia is easily one of the most unique books I have read lately. Or ever. Not that I expected any less, from a sci-fi verse novel written in the Orkney tongue. For context, I read the paper book while occasionally listening to some piece of the audiobook, to get at least a feel of how the original language sounded like.
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Station Six – by S.J. Klapecki
Station Six is a sci-fi novella featuring class struggle and queer people in space – which is, in a sentence, both the entire list of reasons I was drawn to this book, and also pretty much everything I have to say about it. Well, ok, I can try to elaborate a bit if I try.
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Detransition, Baby – by Torrey Peters
Ok, I was expecting this to be intense, but I wasn’t really prepared. It’s painful and spectacular, it’s the kind of book that hurts you in a good way.
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The Unbroken – by C.L. Clark
The Unbroken had at first piqued my curiosity because of its topics – that is to say: colonialism and queer representation – so I surely didn’t complain when it was selected as last month’s read by one of book clubs I’m in. Unfortunately, an interesting subject alone a good novel does not make, and while I don’t like thrashing works whose heart seems to be in the right place, I really can’t pretend I enjoyed this book, nor can I find many positive qualities besides good intentions.
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Too Like The Lightning – by Ada Palmer
Terra Ignota is yet another series that intrigued me as soon as I read its concept: that is to say, a story told in an affectedly antiquated language by a morally dubious unreliable narrator, set in an imperfect utopia with its unique take on gender and featuring heaps of philosophical themes. So, let’s talk about its first book, shall we?
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Traitor’s Moon – by Lynn Flewelling
The Nightrunner series is proving to be an okay reading experience, but a challenging one to review – to review meaningfully at least. What I mean is, other than what I’ve already said in my previous posts, I haven’t got much to highlight about its pros and cons. So, let me share what little I have to say on the matter and then we move on to something else.
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Provenance – by Ann Leckie
After finishing the Imperial Radch trilogy, I had immediately added Provenance to my TBR, and recently I finally found myself in the right state of mind to read it. So, what is it about? How does it compare to the other books? But, most importantly, has it sated my nostalgia for Breq in any shape or form? Well, let’s see…
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The Heroes – by Joe Abercrombie
I said I was going to read the entire First Law series and I am not going back on my word. So, here I am once again, this time talking about The Heroes, another standalone novel set in the same universe, and more than loosely connected with already established events.
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Infinite Jest – by David Foster Wallace
Okay, it’s done. After prolonged, albeit on and off, efforts that have accompanied my days since the beginning of the year, I have made it to the end of Infinite Jest. So, what am I doing now? Do I really want to write a review for a book to which countless scholarly articles are devoted? Of what it’s heralded as one of the most important works of the 20th century? Well, after labouring through more than a thousand pages, I think I’m at least entitled to share my very incomplete impressions.
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Hell Bent – by Leigh Bardugo
Finally, time to talk about Hell Bent! It’s been more than a month since I’ve read it, actually – right after finishing Ninth House I couldn’t exactly restrain myself – but I was waiting for some certain book club discussion before making my review public. But now, the fated day has come.
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