Well, the book was technically a pretty fast read, but also pretty dark so it ended up getting set down periodically. You could finish it in a few evenings of bedtime wind-down reading. The whole thing is basically a long allegory for the consequences of human arrogance. It is worth reading, although if you are
Author: Leslie_KTM
I am about 1/3 through the book and so far it is reminiscent of Planet of the Apes. The universe created by Le Guin is drawing me in. Humans have colonized a planet that was populated with life by a meteor from Earth about a million years ago. This wave of colonists seems to be
Hello everyone! My name is Leslie Melnyk and I live in Kathmandu. This is my second winter reading session and my 4th session in general since summer 2015. This time I’m choosing to use this winter reading challenge as an opportunity for continued education and I have no list–just going with the flow. I’m going
I’ve been reading Young Adult Fiction Author Brandon Sanderson’s work for some time now and while his writing is really unexeptional, the universe he builds and the concepts of deity and magic and human nature are compelling. If you can look past bad writing I would recommend most of his work. His books take place
Hi All, My name is Leslie and I am looking forward to this winter reading challenge. I meant to write my post last week and then read books instead! This winter I’ll be reading a combination of Young Adult Fantasy books and lots of gardening book pages and blogs hoping to brush up on “everything”
well… I decided to read something really gritty instead of the comedy reading I was going to tackle. it is called “On Lynchings” by Ida B. Wells-Barnett It is a feminist black perspective on how and why lynchings happened in the South. Has anyone read this yet?
While the story is imaginative and interesting, this book is mediocre. I love me a good mystical/scifi/fantasy book (note the usage of the word ‘good’) but this one was subpar in my estimations. Maybe it is because it was written in 1965 and the genre was just developing, or maybe it is because I don’t
I could not recommend this book more to anyone interested in a human story. This is a biography of “A Black Man’s White Mother” as well has his story growing up. The mother was born in 1942 and raised Orthodox Jewish in the deep south. She met a man literally on “the other side of
Hi All! I’m excited to start the summer reading challenge today! I woke up at 4am and got at it. For my list I picked a couple of re-reads that I’ve been meaning to go back to for years, a couple of half finished reads which I will re-start. and then all new material. I
