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Just starting......this has been on my shelf since publication 10 years ago, my husband loved it and so I decided to read. Trying to read off my shelves instead of borrowing from the library 🤪

In this brutal near-future dystopia, water rights are the difference between life and death for cities in California, Arizona and New Mexico, and the powerful are willing to kill to keep their share. In the deadly ruins of Phoenix, Angel, an enforcer for Nevada and the "water knife" of the title; Lucy, a journalist caught up in the story; and Maria, a teenage Texan refugee, struggle to survive in a world of betrayal. Dark and all too plausible.

This awesome cli-fi thriller has me feeling parched and makes me want to drink as much water as I can while it‘s around. In the future the western states are playing spy games with who gets water. They‘re allowed to throw up borders. Texans are now climate refugees who are killed by neighboring states because they don‘t want to deal with them. This was soooo good. The characters are likable but none of them are clean. A pick! 2 comments👇🏼

A true peace of speculative fiction that is scarily close to reality. If you want to feel anxious about the future this is the book for you!

44/150 Wow!! So intense, brutal and graphic. I knew from reading The Windup Girl and Pump Six that this would be a very dark and tense read. Bacigalupi's world has no real heroes, only survivors. I recommend this, but if you're easily triggered by graphic violence, you might want to pass. 4 ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
10/10 #bookbuyingdiet (woo hoo!)

"There were stories in sweat."

#FirstLineFridays @ShyBookOwl

4.25⭐️

Experiencing perpetual drought and air pollution from dust storms and forest fires, water utilities become the big power players of the West as they fight over every last drop of water from the Colorado River. Under these conditions, states have put up border walls to keep out climate refugees from over running their cities and tomahawks and private militias are used to blow up treatment plants and guard water pipelines...

Starting my weekend off with a bail. I gave this one 50 pages before determining this will not be a book I read. At least not this year. Climate fiction about a brutal, near waterless southeast where water is power, this book seems like it‘s on track for some great world building but also that said world isn‘t too much of reach. This would not be the break I need from reading the news this year. This is my #bookspin #doublespin

I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description or reason for wanting to read the book. Some are old and some will be new. Don't judge me - I have a lot of books.
Day 114

#tbrmountain #bookbuyingdiet

A genre that I had never heard of until last year is Cli-Fi, which is fiction related to climate change. I‘m interested in reading something from this genre, particularly as it had been 70 degrees several times this winter, which is unusual to say the least. The tagged book sounds interesting. #NewtoYouGenre #AuldLangReads

This book was a brutal but realistic look at how the fundamental resource of water becomes corporatized and exploited when it grows scarce. Cities wield the power of life and death by shutting down water lines, terrorists blow up dams to sow chaos, and journalists try and trace the muscle back to the source. Vivid characters.

PopSugar Reading Challenge 2019: a "cli-fi" (climate fiction) book

A pretty good dystopian novel set near future with adult characters. The setting and events that unfold are realistic in light of the things happening in the SW of the US. It makes your pause to think how it could easily happen this way, a rather terrifying thought.

#2019Book63
If you‘ve ever worried that a combination of climate change, corrupt government officials, and basic human awfulness will lead to the downfall of American society, then you should definitely read this book.

I live in CO and this book felt a little too close to.home with regards to what could happen in CO in say 10 years...

The ending felt a bit flat, rushed and left me without a clear ending. But overall the book was well done. The research around water rights both junior and senior waa well done. It was clear the author did a considerabke amount of work to ensure that this book was as close to the truth as possible

I finished The Watet Knife!

I walked 6.5 miles today! I am up to 22 miles so.far this week!!

#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge

Walked 8.3 miles!!
Read The Water Knife and Started United by Cory Booker.

#BookFitnessChallenge #BFC19

Enjoying a lazy day watching charmed and reading

No walkimg today.

Walked 3 miles yesterday

#BookFitnessChallenge #BFC19

Weekly Check In: June 7th 2019

Miles walked: 27 (pretty sure thats what i walked the week before)

Books Read: finished: When They Call You A Terrorist and up to page 155 in The Water Knife.

Next Week: want to Walk 35 miles and get 2 runs in.
Read: Finish The Water Knife and start Circling The Sun by Paula McLain

I finished 'American War' this weekend ans walked a total of 7 miles in the last two days.

Will start The Water Knife tomorrow and When They Call you a Terrorist: A BLM Memoir

So far in the #BFC19 #BookFitnessChallenge I have read 7 of my ten book goal!

Exciting to finish strong.

Pictured are the four physical books i intend to read for June. Its based off monthly reading challenges, a FB Group i belong to.

My library haul.

Today is my partners Graduation, so i ate a ton of food and only walked 2.4 miles.

Now to relax and do some reading.

#BFC #BookFitnessChallenge

Ultimately a powerful dystopian about a world where the most valuable commodity is water and whoever controls it. Trigger warning for violence

Half frightening post apocalyptic nightmare, half wild thriller, all unputdownable. #postapocalyptic

Weird that it finally rains here while I'm reading this, but if it wasn't I might be too scared to continue.

Weekend plans. #catsoflitsy

Excellent work of near future science fiction primarily set in the American West. Very intense and very convincing. Disturbingly so. Especially since I‘ve either lived or traveled through some of the areas included in the book‘s setting.

I am a huge fan of Paolo Bacigalupi, especially his book The Wind-Up Girl. The Water Knife explores a dystopian near future where water rights, corruption and violence determine who lives and who dies in the deserts of Nevada and Arizona. The subject matter is incredibly timely and well-imagined, the characters believable. The gruesome details of this world can be hard to stomach, but reflect reality in other desperate places today.

Hurricane season is almost upon us and—even though we‘ll spend most of it in FL— @BookishMarginalia and I are terrified of another water shortage.

Nothing like finding a few gems at Barnes and Nobles #books #reading #bookhaul #mpls #twincities

Everything I love in a sci-fi: realistic world-building, well-rounded and fleshed out characters, a page turner that is not for the weak. This was intense as hell, and I loved it. I will be reading all of this writer's work.

Okay, and listen: nothing bad happens to the dog. I feel that is a "spoiler" everyone is going to want. Plenty of horrifying and graphic torture, abuse, and murder of humans. But the dog is A-OK.

#bccunboxing

This was a great story, and it would make a GREAT show. Seriously, HBO, AMC, snap up the rights. #dystopia #litsyatoz @BookishMarginalia

@Mommamanzi thank you so much for setting this all up! best first official #litsyswap and can‘t wait to participate in more! 💕☺️

@Avanders again, thank you so much for taking the time to help this girl read a little more #dystopian lit! I cannot wait to read all of these, and don‘t know where to start! 🤩🤩🖤📚🖤📚👌🏼

@Avanders thank you!!!! I‘m so grateful for all these amazing gifts! I love that you sent me things that will help me survive and I definitely sent you all the things I‘d miss! 😂 I LOVE the tote and can not wait to break it in... and the books! 😍😍 each one sounds AMAZING and I cannot wait to adjust my #tbr accordingly! #dysoptianblues

Ekkkkkkk!!!!!! #dystopianblues box time!!!! I cannot wait to see all these books and goodies! You‘ve out done yourself! Thank you SO much @Avanders !!!!!! 😍☺️💕💕

Almost finished this one. Interesting concept: a future where fresh water is scarce and very expensive, and corrupt government organizations fight for control of the rivers and lakes.

Listened to this one on audiobook!! Good narration. I loved the writing and the characters. But, the story was as slow as molasses.

Two books with #water, one post-apocalyptic and one short story collection. #noteworthynovember 🌊

Breakfast. Trying to remember a time when I couldn't read, and I can't. My parents bought books for me before I was born.

I couldn't think of any actual #waterfalls for today's #AugustGrrrl prompt, but this book is about a dystopia where the very wealthy live in biodomes with complete ecosystems including elaborate water recycling mechanisms while everybody ride died for lack of water and corporations fight over water rights for the little water that is still available. @Cinfhen

It's hot. My Saturday night plans: To spread eagle on the carpet with the fan, the dog, and a book that starts with the line "There were stories in sweat." Things are getting pretty crazy around here, is my point.

Got through this days ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. NPR has a good description of it: "Chinatown meets Mad Max". More Mad Max than Chinatown, but a rocket-ride good read

Tonight's reading

Like his last book, about a hundred pages to go, I slow down because I don't want it to end. There is also the feeling that something very very bad is going to happen before anything good.

I have a love/hate for when all my holds come in at once at the library, but I'm excited about all these books!

Aaah, another Bacigalupi. The Windup Girl was one of the best sci-fi novels I‘ve read over the last decade, so I‘ve been eagerly awaiting his next adult SF work. (His young adult stuff has also been fantastic.) Bacigalupi‘s new one, The Water Knife, reminds me of early Gibson, but the playing field is the water-parched Southwest rather than the online world. Like The Windup Girl, it has a hard-hitting environmental theme. - Dave

This was the first book I read in 2017. It takes place in a future in which water is a commodity that is fought over by corporations and government. It has created a class system that is medieval in nature. It was both suspenseful and thought provoking.

After years, perhaps decades, of intense drought, the states of these United States are essentially at war with each other over water rights. Water knives are the nefarious individuals that work for certain state govs (NV and CA) to cut off the rights of other state. This story is about one knife (Angel), a journalist documenting the desiccation of Phoenix, and the lengths we'll go to in order to survive.