It is early winter in an Ojibwe community in northern Ontario, and all of the external infrastructure – electricity, internet, phone – goes out, all at once. Though all of these systems are relatively recent and precarious this far north, it soon becomes clear that this was not some random, localized blip but something general …
Did not at all intend this, but somehow this is my second LA-based, relationship-focused contemporary which draws heavily on the film industry of this year. Felt a little more substantive in some respects than a lot of the non-literary contemporaries I’ve read in the last few years. I liked the characters and the relationships and …
Literary fiction. The story of a young man buffeted by the winds of the social world into not-belonging of many different forms, and then navigating that towards a clearer sense of self. Woven together with a storyline drawn from Hindu mythology and with black/green/grey illustrations. Simple, lyrical, and emotionally compelling. Originally posted by Scott on Goodreads.
Mediocre fantasy, but make it queer. Princess from one kingdom makes the long journey to marry her childhood betrothed in another, to form an alliance and to bring her people’s magic to this land that is increasingly plagued by dragons. He dies before she gets there, and in this non-heterosexist world it is perfectly normal …
The excellent second book in an excellent sff trilogy. It had been a while since I read the first one, so it took a few chapters for me to get my head back into it, but once I did…great stuff. The world building continues to be sophisticated and gripping. I particularly appreciate that it is …
A short sci-fi novel from the late, great Ursula LeGuin, originally published in 1972. I discovered once I was part of the way through reading it that it is the fifth in a cycle of books she set in the same universe, none of which I have read before, but that didn’t seem to matter. …