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I like haiku, sci-fi, and fantasy.

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Toshikazu Kawaguchi: Before the coffee gets cold (2019)

[Fiction / Fantasy / Contemporary] What would you change if you could go back in …

Review of 'Before the Coffee Gets Cold' on 'Goodreads'

This book was happy and sad. I really liked it. The time travel was so subtle that it didn’t feel like I was reading scifi. This felt like fiction. It was really good story about interconnecting lives at a coffee shop. I recommend it to anyone looking for a light read. You don’t have to like coffee to like this book, haha.

Jenny Odell: How to Do Nothing (2019)

In a world where addictive technology is designed to buy and sell our attention, and …

Review of 'How to Do Nothing' on 'Goodreads'

I was so thrilled to find out that this best-selling book was actually an anti-capitalist book about the benefits of bioregionalism. Oh my gods. I need to find more books like this!

Becky Chambers: The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (EBook, 2015, Hodder & Stoughton)

Follow a motley crew on an exciting journey through space-and one adventurous young explorer who …

Review of 'The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet (Wayfarers, #1)' on 'Goodreads'

This book! Oh my gosh! So many people have recommended it to me. This book is about a crew of sapients, human and non-human, tunneling holes in space. They have to live with each other for long lengths of time. What does that do to a group? This crew becomes really close, except for, as you may guess, the one asshole in the group. I love the incredibly detailed and thoughtfully written aliens. I love that the ship’s crew, including the AI, are basically chosen family. It reminds me of Cedar McCloud’s writing in that the novel keeps subverting the dramatic directions I think it’s going to go. One friend described this book as a comfort read and I think he’s right. I can’t wait to read the rest of the series.

Claire Keegan: Walk the blue fields (2007, Black Cat, Distributed by Publishers Group West)

Review of 'Walk the blue fields' on 'Goodreads'

I read one of her short stories in my pandemic short story club. Given that I want to read more Irish authors, I decided to buy the whole (e)book. I love how meditative this book is. Keegan really plumbs the depths of human nature here. I would definitely read more by her.

Review of 'Pagan Portals - Loki' on 'Goodreads'

This was a slim volume that I read in one day while taking a break from Alan Watts. It was packed full of info about Loki–lots of little tidbits I’d never even heard of before. Great stuff. Absolute must-read for a beginner Norse pagan.

reviewed Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir (The Locked Tomb, #1)

Tamsyn Muir: Gideon the Ninth (2019, Tor.com)

Tamsyn Muir’s Gideon the Ninth unveils a solar system of swordplay, cut-throat politics, and lesbian …

Review of 'Gideon the Ninth' on 'Goodreads'

This was advertised to me by many people as “lesbian necromancers in space.” Yes, it’s as EPIC as it sounds. This book is heartbreaking. I would’ve cried while reading it had I not been at work. I really wanna read the sequel.

Cathy Marie Buchanan: Daughter of Black Lake (Hardcover, 2020, Riverhead Books)

Review of 'Daughter of Black Lake' on 'Goodreads'

A historical fiction of two generations of a small northern village. Set in the time of the Romans invading Britain for the third time? Boudicca’s era basically. This was a great book! Very realistic, well-written, and tense. My own personal hangup was that there was a character debating between two love interests and I usually dislike that trope. I kept reading and was delighted that the character’s choice had very long term consequences throughout the whole book. The book centers around a mother and daughter and their respective coming-of-age in the village. The daughter is physically disabled, and this also has consequences in the book. I think it was respectfully done.

reviewed The Thread That Binds by Cedar McCloud (Eternal Library, #1)

Cedar McCloud: The Thread That Binds (EBook, 2021, Numinous Spirit Press)

The books are restless.

At the Eternal Library, books are more than the paper, …

Review of 'The Thread That Binds' on 'Goodreads'

I couldn’t put this book down! If you want to read about queer magical librarians who are often asexual, this is for you. I loved the themes in this book: chosen family, healing from abuse, and unlearning perfectionism. I wanted to join this fam. Ugh. Looking forward to the prequel.