Intriguing study of wolves in the Pacific Northwest by tracker and conservationist David Moskowitz, who I've had the privilege of learning a bit about tracking from. Wolves are a controversial topic here and also, arguably, essential to the region's ecology. There's a lot here about ecological tracking, too--the practice of knowing where animals are going to be through understanding of their environment and behaviors. Fascinating read.

Feeling incredibly called out by this (so far) gem of a book. ❤

Premise: a virus that allows humans to understand the speech of other animals. The result is something like The Girl with All the Gifts meets the Chronicles of Narnia. It's very good but made me sad.

Sort of the Culture meets The Restaurant at the End of the Universe. I dug it.

I've been a fan of Charlie Jane's work since All the Birds in the Sky. This short story collection does not disappoint.

I appreciated the clear, concise prose and how well North captures the starkness of the landscape in which most of the story occurs. It reminded me, in some interesting ways, of Katherine Paterson's Jacob Have I Loved. The theme is all too timely.

Road-movie plot set in Nigeria with one of the most appealingly stubborn protagonists I've come across in awhile.

As my illness progressed, over time, I would see also the complexity of what we took for granted in our landscapes and hidden lines of connection would attach to me until moving through the world was like being wrapped in chains. But it was the links, the chains, that made you free. Once you saw it all, you could never go back. Everything was alive. Overwhelming. I was overwhelmed eventually. Overcome.

The number of people I know who are surprised to learn that Seattle *has* a river, let alone that it's one of the most polluted in the country...well, that kind of thing doesn't surprise me anymore, but it used to. This book is a worthwhile start to understanding the importance of the Duwamish River to Seattle's history and why its cleanup is a matter not only of good stewardship, but of justice.

Very thorough, especially given its capsule-profile format, but author Clover Hope takes care to highlight each artist's major contributions to the genre. Lots to discover here, particularly if, like me, your rap listening is largely confined to the big names. Most of all I enjoyed the accounts from early in rap history, before the Internet became something of a real-time archive.

I met this author and picked up this book at WorldCon in 2015. Because my to-read pile is actually several boxes of books in a trench coat I just now got around to reading it. It's kind of what I think of as sci-fi of the old school, mostly about the tech, with rather thin characterizations. That said, it's a fun and engaging read. Recommended if you enjoy stories about biohackery, which I do.

When I tell people who my gung fu teacher was, their response tells me something about what they know of a particular segment of martial arts history in America. Despite this, there's a lot I don't know myself.

Someday Jesse Glover's books might be reprinted, but that's not up to me. (I do own copies of most of them. They're hard to find.) In the meantime, I'm reading this.

Really happy to be back in Cherryh's Alliance-Union universe. Downbelow Station was one of the first non-juvenile SF books I ever read.