BarbaraTheBibliophage I bought this one recently also! Hope it‘s good. 5y
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Theory of Bastards | 
This was both very easy and very hard! Kept it to books published since 2010. I find myself thinking of these often. #top10ofthedecade #fictionedition
*Honorable mentions to Sally Rooney's Conversations With Friends, Mohsin Hamid's Exit West, Becky Chambers' A Closed and Common Orbit, and Paul Tremblay's Cabin at the End of the World
**I'm not even done reading Girl, Woman, Other and it still makes the list. It's that good. Seriously.
Ok, here are my #top6reads so far in 2019. All 5 ⭐. Theory of Bastards was my favorite favorite. Thanks for the tag @Redwritinghood ! What about you @batsy @Tanisha_A @JennyM @DivineDiana ? And anyone else who'd like to share 😊
So far liking the lit fic sci fi vibe of this one #audiowalk
pickIt took me a while to get into this, but I‘m so glad I stuck with it. @readordierachel posted a great review that had me rushing to pick this up & she encouraged me to keep going - reassuring me that the novel swiftly changes & becomes something else entirely, & boy was she right. It became amazing. This novel has so much heart, in a package with a little bit of evolutionary science, climate change, chronic illness, and dystopia. Thanks Rachel!
It‘s not often that I get 100 pages into a book without knowing how I feel about it. At 100 pages, I‘ve either decided it‘s wonderful or I‘ve cast it aside 75 pages ago. But This book has done it. I‘m intrigued by the premise, and so rarely do we get to read work which features women with chronic illnesses that I want to keep reading. On the other hand, I don‘t feel any emotional connection with the characters or story yet. Ugh, do I keep going?
pickI loved this so much. Lit fic with elements of near-future sci-fi, cli-fi, dystopia, social science, and biology---it's hard to really describe. An acclaimed researcher who has struggled with a lifetime of chronic pain comes to a facility to study the mating habits of bonobo apes. 👇🏼
I've been advised that my flight will be delayed by at least 5 hours. I'm always complaining about not having enough uninterrupted reading time. I guess the universe heard me. 🙄
This is real good so far. Near-future speculative fiction (think contact lenses that project a computer screen only you can see, implants that monitor your vitals, etc; tech is advanced but the world still seems basically the same). A no-nonsense researcher with health issues is studying bonobo orgies at a facility. I'm loving it 👍🏼 #currentlyreading
pickNear future SFF about a bonobo researcher with a MacArthur grant.
Very readable. Kept connecting it to other books I've read. Station Eleven / Lady Oracle / We Are All Completely Besides Ourselves
PKD award nom 1/6.
Like all book professionals & aficionados, I cycle through totes from my favorite publishers. Europa‘s my current favorite.
bailedThe story had potential - but the lack of punctuation in dialogue is just down right annoying and I‘m bailing for now....maybe come back....
Today‘s lunchtime read, courtesy of a work colleague!! Which is really unusual as I‘ve usually read everything or have no desire to!
