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Kim Stanley Robinson: Shaman
Kim Stanley Robinson: The High Sierra (Hardcover, 2022, Little, Brown and Company)
Emily St. John Mandel: Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover, 2022, Alfred A. Knopf)

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Mavis Gallant: A fairly good time, with green water, green sky (2016)
Adrian Tchaikovsky: Shards of Earth (Tor)
Peter Gelderloos: The Solutions are Already Here (Paperback, Pluto Press)

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Nino Haratischwili: The eighth life
Marlon James: The book of night women (2009, Riverhead Books)
Cheon Myeong-Kwan, Chi-Young Kim: Whale (2023, Steerforth Press, Archipelago)

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finished reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko, Fumiko: The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman (1991, M.E. Sharpe)

The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by  (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite …

started reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko, Fumiko: The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman (1991, M.E. Sharpe)

The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by  (Foremother legacies : autobiographies and memoirs of women from Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and Latin America)

Kaneko Fumiko (1903-1926) wrote this memoir while in prison after being convicted of plotting to assassinate the Japanese emperor. Despite …

reviewed Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution

Babel (EBook, 2022, Harper Voyager) 4 stars

From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …

fun anti-colonial fantasy-lite

4 stars

Content warning spoilers

reviewed The Employees by Olga Ravn

Olga Ravn: The Employees (Paperback, 2020, Lolli Editions) 4 stars

Funny and doom-drenched, The Employees chronicles the fate of the Six-Thousand Ship. The human and …

a vibey time in corp. space

4 stars

I liked the idea of this book a bit more than actually reading it–still, it was extremely strange and beautiful, and was nice to read while digesting some grief/death related feelings. Would recommend reading a synopsis beforehand.