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I finally read Ancillary Justice last night. Late to the party, but glad to have gotten here! I enjoyed the book but it also sort of felt complete to me. Can anyone tell me how the sequels are? @bookstodon

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@bookstodon @RanaldClouston funny, i read that first and liked AJ better! but that could be just a factor of reading order.

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Is it too soon to Covid times from 2020 in a fictional story? I’m thinking about including that as one of the plots in an upcoming book. @bookstodon @mastodonbooks

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@bookstodon @dickrubin716 depends on the context, obviously, but i for one am mostly not reading fiction about covid yet—the bar that would make me interested enough is pretty high and i’m sure i’m not alone.

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just started reading this lovely-covered book which features an elderly con woman whom i know i’m gonna love. @bookstodon

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May read, as always favorites are starred:

The Angel of Indian Lake - Stephen Graham Jones
*What I'd Rather Not Think About - Jente Posthuma
*You Dreamed of Empires - Álvaro Enrigue
Yours For The Taking - Gabrielle Korn
Headshot - Rita Bullwinkel
The Emperor and the Endless Palace - Justinian Huang
Tom Lake - Ann Patchett
The September House - Carissa Orlando
A Season of Monstrous Conceptions - Lina Rather
A Desolation Called Peace - Arkady Martine
*There's Always This Year - Hanif Abdurraqib
*Greta & Valdin - Rebecca K. Reilly
Ghost Station - S.A. Barnes
River East, River West - Aube Rey Lescure
How To Say Babylon - Safiya Sinclair
Shanghailanders - Juli Min
The American Daughters - Maurice Carlos Ruffin
Traces of Enayat - Iman Mersal
Fervor - Toby Lloyd
Elena Knows - Claudia Piñeiro

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@bookstodon Does anyone else have that experience where you accidentally find yourself reading things in pairs? This month had two books set in modern Shanghai, two books where characters have to develop communication with eldritch aliens, and I'm following up The American Daughters with Percival Everett's James. Weird!

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@Knien @bookstodon Underwater lesbians is a great niche theme!

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@bookstodon @Helen50 oh, how’s Ithaca?

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Since we are coming up on June, it seems like a good time to check in with everyone here on @bookstodon regarding favorite reads of 2024 so far. Whatcha got?

My top five reads of 2024 so far:

The Criminal series of graphic novels by Ed Brubaker (ten primary works)

James, Percival Everett

The Book of Love, Kelly Link

Poor Deer, Claire Oshetsky

Prequel, Rachel Maddow

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top 5 2024 reads so far:

Monstrilio, Gerardo Sámano Córdova

Enter Ghost, Isabella Hammad

Ordinary Human Failings, Megan Nolan

A Memory Called Empire, Arkady Martine

You Dreamed of Empires, Álvaro Enrigue

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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon @willaful i really liked Some Desperate Glory!

lunalein ,
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@KateOfMind @kimlockhartga @bookstodon Cahokia Jazz was so fascinating

lunalein ,
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@kimlockhartga @bookstodon @KateOfMind yes, i’d eat up a series in that world!

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@ampersand @kimlockhartga @bookstodon I don't know if it was, but I have recommended Enter Ghost a ton! Also worth checking out: Behind You Is The Sea by Susan Muaddi Darraj - a book about Palestinian American families in Baltimore.

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Natasha Brown’s Assembly is quite the Novella. “I've watched with dispassionate curiosity as this continent hacks away at itself: confused, lost, sick with nostalgia for those imperialist glory days - when the them had been so clearly defined! It's evident now, obvious in retrospect as the proof of root-two's irrationality, that these world superpowers are neither infallible, nor superior. They're nothing, not without a brutally enforced relativity. An organized, systematic brutality that their soft and sagging children can scarcely stomach - won't even acknowledge. Yet cling to as truth. There was never any absolute, no decree from God. Just viscous, random chance. And then, compounding.” @bookstodon https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58600914

lunalein ,
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@bookstodon @franksting loved this book. it definitely punches way above its page count!

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Tom Lake is not my favorite Ann Patchett book (and has one late reveal i rolled my eyes at), but the audiobook read by Meryl Streep is (predictably) beautiful. Very soothing, never boring. @bookstodon

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From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls—a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline’s The Girls.

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lunalein ,
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@harperperennial @bookstodon @ablueboxfullofbooks i think it’s better than The Girls, myself!

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