Category: Winter Reading 2021

Another absolutely brilliant work from Kim Stanley Robinson. While his books tend to be classified as hard science fiction, I always find them to be more like explorations of our relatively near future. And what I love is that he doesn’t just describe an obvious dystopian future, given where we seem to be headed, but

I watched an interview with award-winning journalist Maria Hinojosa when her book came out.  I was already familiar with her journalism; she often appears on major news broadcasts.  I am very glad I decided to read her memoir.  She is a great storyteller; her book is an intimate description of her life growing up as

I lost the last few days of the Feed Your Soul challenge that some of us started the reading session with seeing as there was no power at my house since Tuesday. We got power back on Saturday night! Anyhow, I’m going backwards as I prefer and had to post Kurt V’s short letter here:

I have just finished listening to this book and I enjoyed it very much. Thank you for pointing me toward it, borkali. It tells the story of four generations of an Italian family, pivoting around the titular character. It is lively, tender, at times brutal. Some of it was very difficult to listen to –

I saw Brian Dillon talk about his new book on a virtual book tour and got excited about reading it. As Dillon has come across sentences over the years that he admires and can’t let go, he has written them down in the back of whichever notebook he happened to be using at the time.

This “darkly comic fable about the unintended consequences of our quest to tame the natural world” was published in 2015. $17 for 49 5×7 pages is a little pricey, no? It is charmingly illustrated with line drawings by Chelsea Cardinal, though. FOX 8, gud pal of FOX 7 and follower of the Grate Leeder FOX