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ks reviewed Polar Vortex by Shani Mootoo
Very good emotional drama
5 stars
Really enjoyed this book. Shani Mootoo gets right into the heads of the main characters very well, and you're drawn right into their thoughts. Feels like a cliff hanger at the end.
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ks reviewed A spool of blue thread by Anne Tyler
"From the beloved Pulitzer Prize-winning author--now in the fiftieth year of her remarkable career--a brilliantly …
Family drama, but not for me
Just couldn't get behind any of the characters. Nicely written, but not my thing.
ks reviewed The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
Scary but possible....
5 stars
Not sure what the classification would be (not SF), but techie horror scenarios played out very well.
ks quoted The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow
The bezzle: The days, months or years that elapse between the commission of the crime and it's discovery. This is the period when the embezzler has his gain and the man who has been embezzled feels no loss. There is a net increase in psychic wealth :-)
— The Bezzle by Cory Doctorow (Page 73)
....attributed to John Kenneth Galbraith.
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ks reviewed Little labors by Rivka Galchen
Little Labors is a slanted, enchanted literary miscellany. Varying in length from just a sentence …
Quirky and thought provoking
4 stars
A series of essays, some really short, the longest only a few pages long, that seemed all over the map, but she still brought it all together very well.
ks reviewed Sleeping Car Porter by Suzette Mayr
A glimpse into the not too distant past
3 stars
This book won the Giller prize, and whilst it gave a great insight into the lives of these porters and the vast gap in wealth between them and the people riding the train, I never got hooked.
ks reviewed Held by Anne Michaels
A breathtaking and mysterious new novel from the beloved Anne Michaels, internationally bestselling author of …
New year, foggy mind
3 stars
The writing in this book is beautiful, but I struggled to keep up with the characters and the generation changes, so I'm thinking it's my fault more than the author's.
ks reviewed Orbital by Samantha Harvey
Life on our planet as you've never seen it before
A team of astronauts in …
Space station drama
5 stars
Short book, but very thoughtful and actually makes you feel like you're in orbit with the crew on the space station. Every day, they're amazed to look back on our little blue dot in the universe. The notion of having 8 ? sunrises and sunsets per day while they orbit I found fascinating.
ks reviewed Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from …
Tough subject but very funny
5 stars
Gilda is a depressed, hypochondriac, atheist lesbian who gets a job as a secretary in a Catholic church. This is pretty dark subject matter but there are some very funny scenes when Gilda is at mass and trying to figure out the lines..... "The jig is up!!". Had no idea what this was going to be about, but I really enjoyed it.
ks finished reading Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead by Emily Austin
Gilda, a twenty-something, atheist, animal-loving lesbian, cannot stop ruminating about death. Desperate for relief from her panicky mind and alienated …