Picked up after a friend who had already enjoyed it linked x.com/mickey17movie/status/1836197947668860958 in discord, very fun, read it in a few days.
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Mickey7
Edward Ashton, Simon Saito
Figure 1. Cover of Mickey7 by Edward Ashton, Simon Saito, published 2023-01-01 by Griffin, a 320-page paperback, part of the Mickey7 series. Posted on Bookwyrm about a year agoon December 30, 2024 - 7:09 PM and archived here at /bookwyrm/2024/12/30/6131350/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/bookwyrm/2024/12/30/6131350/ in the Bookwyrm collection in both HTML and markdown. -
Moonbound
Robin Sloan
Figure 1. Cover of Moonbound by Robin Sloan, published 2024-06-04 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, a 432-page hardcover. P good! kinda Y.A. and a little slow to start but w/e, fun ending
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Doppelganger
Naomi Klein
Figure 1. Cover of Doppelganger by Naomi Klein, published 2023-09-04 by Farrar, Straus & Giroux, 416 pages. Another one that I waited out thinking “eh, probably great but maybe I’ll pass” and then people I follow just kept citing it months and months later, so onto the pile it went. My first and not last Klein book, about significantly more than I expected.
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Family Furnishings
Alice Munro
Figure 1. Cover of Family Furnishings by Alice Munro, published 2015-09-15 by Penguin Canada, a 784-page paperback. The later, somewhat darker, more explicitly autobiographical half of Munro’s anthologies of short stories.
Munro’s characters tend to (I know this reads like a horoscope) move on from situations for the next thing without a plan, or to be a little selfish before getting back to being serious, if they ever do. She’s always putting characters on trains, or in cars, or on buses.
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Killed by a Traffic Engineer
Wes Marshall
Figure 1. Cover of Killed by a Traffic Engineer by Wes Marshall, published 2024-04-21 by Island Press. Lots of people read this last year when Marshall published it and the title was so catchy, I thought about it after the last few accidents in SF, which made me think I should go back and actually read it.
80+ three page ideas, lots of overlap with the incident management side of my day job, casually written (if a little too pop, even, but I guess that’s ok).
Every field is like this, it seems.
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Sourdough : or, Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market
Robin Sloan
Figure 1. Cover of Sourdough : or, Lois and Her Adventures in the Underground Market by Robin Sloan, published 2018-09-18 by Picador, 272 pages. Re-using my comment on Mr. Penumbra’s 24-Hour Bookstore: “Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2017~ techie-San-Francisco and get 100% of the references and roll my eyes at a few of them.”
Started Sloan’s newest, Moonbound, immediately afterward, and it’s very different so far.
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Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1)
Robin Sloan
Figure 1. Cover of Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore, #1) by Robin Sloan, published 2012-04-18 by Farrar, Straus and Giroux, a 288-page hardcover. Fun, light, very quick read. Very weird to read something so connected to ~2012-techie-San-Francisco (I was here by then) and get 100% of the references (and roll my eyes at a few w/ 12 years of hindsight).
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You Like It Darker: Stories
Stephen King
Figure 1. Cover of You Like It Darker: Stories by Stephen King, published 2024-05-21 by Scribner, 512 pages. There are a few authors I simply pre-order without question—Jason Pargin, Kelly Link, Emily Wilson in the past year alone, but always King. I was going to save this for vacation in a few weeks but ended up with more time on my hands so it came off the pile.
I particularly liked "The Answer Man”
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White Cat, Black Dog
Kelly Link
Figure 1. Cover of White Cat, Black Dog by Kelly Link, published 2023-03-28 by Random House, a 272-page hardcover. I particularly enjoyed the last one, “Skinder’s Veil”
I’ve never actually read any actual Brothers Grimm, nor have I read (or even heard of) Lang’s “The Blue Fairy Book” which I just learned about in a review of these Link stories, so I think they have to both go on the pile.
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The Iliad
Emily Wilson, Homer
Figure 1. Cover of The Iliad by Emily Wilson, Homer, published 2023-12-07 by Norton & Company, Incorporated, W. W., a 848-page hardcover. I really enjoyed Wilson’s “Odyssey” and “Oedipus Tyrannos” translations and had hoped to get to this last fall when I put it on the to-read pile. Alas.
I’ve never read any The Iliad before, and it does kinda go on a bit (really? that’s your thoughts on the Iliad? sure why not, is “it was good” better?).
Wilson manages to sneak in some slapstick amid all the brutality.
Posted on Bookwyrm about a year agoon December 30, 2024 - 7:04 PM and archived here at /bookwyrm/2024/12/30/6131308/at https://pizza.slow.high.quality.gravely.pizza/bookwyrm/2024/12/30/6131308/ in the Bookwyrm collection in both HTML and markdown.