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REVIEW: Femlandia by Christina Dalcher
The Handmaid’s Tale: quickly becoming the most misunderstood dystopian book since 1984.
REVIEW: We, Jane by Aimee Wall
Aimee Wall’s debut We, Jane has a strong sense of place, but the story it tells is becoming more and more universal.
REVIEW: Lights Out in Lincolnwood, Geoff Rodkey
It wasn’t funny when The Simpsons did it either.
BOOK REVIEW: Never Saw Me Coming, Vera Kurian
Never Saw Me Coming is a book that does what it says on the tin. Well, maybe. Despite the title, it seems I mostly saw this book coming miles and miles away.
REVIEW: I Named by Dog Pushkin, Margarita Gokun Silver
It seemed like an appropriate time to read Margarita Gokun Silver’s I Named My Dog Pushkin, a collection of essays exploring her experience coming to the US from the Soviet Union with her family, fleeing the country’s imminent collapse and the negative effects Gorbachev’s perestroika and glasnost policies had on her Soviet Jewish family.
BOOK REVIEW: Something New Under the Sun by Alexandra Kleeman
I’ve never lived in LA (and I’ve only visited once), but somehow the city still looms large in my consciousness.
NETGALLEY BOOK REVIEW: How to Kill Your Family by Bella Mackie
There has to be some scientific explanation for why people go gaga for serial killers, and especially female serial killers.
NETGALLEY BOOK REVIEW: Climate Change is Racist by Jeremy Williams
As a white woman in the Global North, I still have a significantly larger carbon footprint than much of the world.
BOOK REVIEW: The Storm is Upon Us by Mike Rothschild
Mike Rothschild is fully aware of the irony of him, of all people, being a reporter working on investigating QAnon.