By Margaret Atwood © 1998, Vintage; 1st Anchor Books edition 978-0385490818 311 pages If you haven’t yet read The Handmaid’s Tale, or seen the TV adaptation, you should—even if this is not your usual type of fiction. Even if you don’t usually read fiction. As the sixth of my six promised banned book reviews for…
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Inter Alia: Terra
By S.L. Guerreiro © September 2024 285 pages ASIN: B0DHX8SK25 Inter Alia: Terra hooked me from the very first page. Character Alexandra Gauthier, linguist, is called upon to help interpret an alien message received on humanity’s only research station/orbiting hotel and resort. But almost from the start, things do not go according to plan. Alex…
Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
By Judy Bume Delacorte Press, ©2012 ASIN: B007I5QMK2 Kindle File Size: 1515KB Paperback: 177 pages What a wonderful little book! While it seems simplistic, perhaps written for a middle-grade reader, Margaret’s story is deeper than it first appears. Its themes of puberty, menstruation and sexuality, and the exploration of religion have prompted bans in many…
The Object
By Joshua Calvert ASIN: B0CRQ9ZLDN © February 1, 2024 Kindle: File size 892 KB Print: 380 pages This was an interesting tale that wove hard science fiction with an individual’s determination and persistence, and the shadows that politics sometimes cast over our greatest endeavors. I loved how the astronauts on the Pangaea, even though they…
Void Beyond the Walls
By Relvin Gonzalez Birthmark Publishing, ©2024 ASIN: B0CRS6S5H7 Kindle Version, file size 5237 KB Void Beyond the Walls is exactly what it claims to be: a literary serial killer novel. I’ve read a number of thrillers and edgy, dark fiction, but I had not encountered this combination of style and genre in a novel before…
Animal Farm
By George Orwell ABHISHEK Publications, ©2021 ASIN: B0DCNXJTDH Kindle Version, file size 29690 KB I’d never read this book before. It was not required reading when I was in school. I’m not sure why I chose to read it now, other than it was a classic title on the banned books list, and I vowed…
Bookshops & Bonedust
By Travis Baldree Tor (©2023) ASIN: B0BQGGVB4K Kindle Version, file size 6367 What a delightful little story! Before finding this book (and its sequel, Legends and Lattes, also an excellent read), I’d never heard of the cozy fantasy genre, and now I have a new label to add to my faves. From the very first…
Gender Queer
By Maia Kobabe and Phoebe Kobabe Oni Press, © 2019 ISBN: 9781549307515 Paperback 240 pages Reading age: 18 years and up I loved this story. In these pages, Maia—who was assigned female at birth (AFAB) and now uses the Spivak pronouns e/em/eir—tells eir story of gender confusion from childhood to adulthood. It was touching, enlightening,…
Enemies Domestic
By John DeDakis © July 3, 2024, Speaking Volumes, LLC ISBN-13: 979-8890221537 Print Version, 336 pages Enemies Domestic follows Lark Chadwick through her new assignment as White House Press Secretary, a job she never wanted, but accepted anyway in order to help her friend, President Will Gannon. From the very start, her early-term pregnancy is…
Jack And Anna: New Scourge Rising
By R.S. Penney © June 3, 2024, Next Chapter ASIN: B0D62DV7FL Kindle Version, file size 1704 KB Jack and Anna are special agents with special powers, bonded with symbionts and out to save the worlds. The excitement suggested by that statement is present throughout the story. Once the action started, it rarely paused. It was…