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Write Reads #14 The Widow Tree by Nicole Lundrigan
If you want to hear Tania and Kirt gushing over a book, this is the episode for you. We don’t devolve into actual fawning, but it’s close. Also, we announce that next month, for our non-fiction pick, there will be … Continue reading
Posted in Kirt, Podcast, Tania
Tagged Blood: The Stuff of Life, Every Day is Like Sunday, Glass Boys, Jim Harrison, Lawrence Hill, Matt Fraction, misery porn, Nicole Lundrigan, Olympos, Patrick Rothfuss, Paul Vlitos, Red Rising, Sex Criminals, the art of building suspense, The Juggler's Children, The River Swimmer, The Widow Tree, Tito, Ursula K. Le Guin, Welcome to the Working Week, Wizard of Earthsea, Yugoslavia
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Guarding the Fortress
I have recently read two novels that explore a post-literate future: Olympos by Dan Simmons and Red Rising by Pierce Brown. Both scenarios present horrific and disastrous consequences for these post-literate humans. You could say that it is kind of … Continue reading
Posted in Kirt, Opinions
Tagged Dan Simmons, Goodreads, Olympos, Pierce Brown, post-literate future, Red Rising, snobbery, taste
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The Research Rabbit Hole and Its Dangers
In several of our podcasts Tania and I have discussed the problem of information overload in some of the books we’ve read. I think that it’s a topic that deserves a post of its own as it has been weighing … Continue reading
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