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that feeling when you didn’t realize that a book you’re reading is by the same author as another book you read a million years ago and really liked as well

The Kingdoms by Natasha Pulley

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I didn’t put the pieces together, but Natasha Pulley’s debut was The Watchmaker of Filigree Street of similar handwavy magic meant to help the stoic repressed gays together in all locations and time eras–and in this case, multiple! RIGHT SO plot, quickly: Joe is our main character, who has woken up on a train pulling into what he thought was Kings Cross station but is now Gare du Roi station. It is 1897 ish, everyone is speaking French, and while he has literally no memory of […]

a point by point rebuttal of the manosphere’s views on dating and gender, broadly

Bonded by Evolution by Paul Eastwick

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And now, for a total change of pace…a recommendation from a podcast, technically (the excellent Love Factually, where two social psychologists (Paul Eastwick and Eli Finkel) use the science of close relationships to explain romantic comedies). But it’s really a roundabout recommendation from the esteemed Dr. Lydia Emery, a friend of mine who’s also a professor of close relationship science at the University of Chicago and a veritable font of information for every type of dating and/or relationship question that anyone might have (and of which […]

love when you realize there’s more in a universe that you loved

"Wings In the Morning" by Sarah Rees Brennan

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This is really just a four star review for the one story in here about Luke Sunborn, he of the lovable himbo with depth persuasion in the delightful In Other Lands by Sarah Rees Brennan. I re-read In Other Lands solely to read this story, because I feared I would not recall enough of the tale to fully appreciate it. Perhaps that would be true, but I can also say that this story is written with enough context and callback that you can enjoy it either way! So In Other […]

Kin

Kin by Tayari Jones

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CW: racism, obviously, but also pre-Roe-era abortion, including bad outcomes (offscreen) What is it with books about ambivalent/absent mothers and the impact on the (female) child? I feel like I’m being hit over the head with a lesson that I don’t particular need! I found this book almost impossible to put down–I had an evening to myself to do errands that needed doing, and instead found myself lying on the couch running through this as fast as I could. Kin traces the parallel but connected […]

a thoughtful, reflective book that might mean more to you depending on your experiences

We Burned So Bright by T.J. Klune

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Oh, TJ Klune. I drank up your Cerulean Sea, and then the Extraordinaires was indeed extraordinary, and then there were some follow ups that I felt were a bit on the nose (like, SMASHED nose on the nose) so I distanced myself a bit and kept you in the background. I think it’s probably going to be the same here, but I enjoyed the commitment to the bit! The bit here is that there is a black hole en route to the Earth (this is a […]

A kind, gentle book with gentle characters who practice empathy

Whistler by Ann Patchett

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I’m not sure this was Patchett’s point, but I left this book thinking a rather unpopular opinion: that perhaps divorce, and being a parent who leaves a marriage where you are unsatisfied (as opposed to actively being hurt, either physically or mentally), harms children? Which is to say–as someone who does not have children, does not want children, but has done a lot of reading on lots of these topics to ensure that clause two is a true statement–we usually assume that a parent in […]



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