Are you snappy with your loved ones? Incapable of focusing on a task, even by the unfocused standards of 2020? Well, don’t worry, because everyone else is in the exact same boat! It’s a horrible, leaky boat, and we all hate it here! Remember when there were nice things and we liked those things? How nostalgic I feel for the time of nice things, such as “seeing friends in different cities” and “going to the grocery store” and “not feeling miffed when I saw a stranger’s nose while standing in a building.” Hopefully by the time I do my next…
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Nonfiction November continues, hosted this week by Sarah at Sarah’s Book Shelves. This week we’re talking book pairings! This week, pair up a nonfiction book with a fiction title. It can be a “If you loved this book, read this!” or just two titles that you think would go well together. Maybe it’s a historical novel and you’d like to get the real history by reading a nonfiction version of the story. Mm, yes, I love a good game of Read This Then That. Nonfiction November has pegged me accurately in this regard. Let’s start with a creepy debut novel…
34 CommentsNote: I received an e-galley of Everfair from the publisher for review consideration. The genesis of Nisi Shawl’s debut novel Everfair was the author’s bafflement that she had never gotten into steampunk, and her theory that the reason for this is steampunk’s uncomfortable connections with colonialism. Everfair, therefore, creates an alternate version of Congolese history in which white and black Europeans and Americans purchase land in the Congo to create a small country called Everfair. The residents of Everfair develop steam technology that allows them, in alliance with the indigenous king of the Everfair territory, to chase out King Leopold’s…
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