realityasylumreads finished reading Song of napalm by Bruce Weigl
Unsurprisingly, poems about someones time in the Vietnam war are crushingly dark
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I mostly read sci-fi and spec fiction but also dig poetry good fiction and the occasional non-fiction
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realityasylumreads finished reading Hernes by Ursula K. Le Guin
Hernes by Ursula K. Le Guin
A masterwork novella of foam and rain.
realityasylumreads finished reading Orbital by Samantha Harvey
A team of astronauts in the International Space Station collect meteorological data, conduct scientific experiments …
An easy read but this didn't live up the hype for me. Also, the way in which she describes the experiments on mice is done so coldly and without an ounce of empathy that I'm pretty sure she hates animals. A very small part of the book but I could not shake it.
realityasylumreads finished reading The Female Man by Joanna Russ
Ill be honest, I don't think I followed this at all
realityasylumreads replied to people like books's status
@peoplelikebooks Yeah I feel the same way about it as you did. I love Yoko Ogawa and have read most of her books that have been translated in English (I think). I loved the housekeeper and the professor. Hotel Iris is a little intense and Diving Pool are three anxiety inducing short stories but it was great.
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@peoplelikebooks Did you like this? Have you read any of her other novels?
realityasylumreads finished reading Hyperion (Hyperion, #1) by Dan Simmons
In the 29th century, the Hegemony of Man comprises hundreds of planets connected by farcaster …
Honestly, this was mid
realityasylumreads finished reading Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa
Mina's Matchbox by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen B. Snyder
In the spring of 1972, twelve-year-old Tomoko leaves her mother behind in Tokyo and boards a train alone for Ashiya, …
realityasylumreads finished reading She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
She Who Knows by Nnedi Okorafor
Najeeba knows.
She has had The Call. But how can a 13-year-old girl have the Call? Only men and boys …
realityasylumreads replied to Elise's status
@throatmuppet@ramblingreaders.org A Country of Ghost is my favorite of hers!
realityasylumreads finished reading Sapling Cage by Margaret Killjoy (Daughters of the Empty Throne, #1)
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …
Not a witch book person but am very much a Margaret Killjoy person. Took a minute for me to get into, but by the middle I was down.
realityasylumreads finished reading The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to …
I really loved this one. Excited to read the second.
realityasylumreads finished reading Like Thunder : The Desert Magician's Duology by Nnedi Okorafor
realityasylumreads finished reading At Great and No Distance at All by Ursula K. Le Guin
At Great and No Distance at All by Ursula K. Le Guin
A Sci-Fi story suite that stretches the mind & thinks deeply into distances inner and outer. Republishing of 3 Le …