The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

July 5, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — print. Candlewick Press, 2009. Originally published 2008. 479 pgs. Purchased. Soon after arriving on the New World, all the settlers were infected with the Noise germ, allowing them to hear everything each other thinks. As the last remaining boy in a town full of men, Todd Hewitt isn’t allowed to converse with those who have become men, and he longs for the day he can become a man and join the ranks of those living in Prentisstown. “Everything on […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Book Club, Chunkster, Dystopia, Science Fiction, Young Adult • Tags: Patrick Ness

The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead

May 6, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — Kindle edition. Doubleday, 2016. 322 pages. Purchased. Whitehead’s novel won both the 2017 Pulitzer Prize and the 2016 National Book Award, the first novel to do so since 1993. It also won the Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2017 Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence, and was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. Given this lavishing of praise and accolades, I added Whitehead’s novel to my to-read list but shied away from picking up the novel until I […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Awards and Prizes, Booker Prize, Fiction, National Book Award, North America, Pulitzer Prize, ReadDiverse, Science Fiction, United States • Tags: Colson Whitehead

The Man in the High Castle by Philip K. Dick

April 18, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by Jeff Cummings. Brilliance Audio, 2015. Originally published 1962. 9 hours, 58 minutes. Purchased.  In 1962, fifteen years after the end of World War II, a defeated America has been split into three zones — the Pacific States ruled by Japan, the East Coast colonized by Nazi Germany, and a demilitarized zone comprised of the Rocky Mountain states. In Colorado and Wyoming, individuals who once (and still) identified as Americans live far freer than those on either […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Asia, Audiobook, Awards and Prizes, Dystopia, Europe, Fiction, Germany, Hugo Award, Japan, North America, Science Fiction, United States • Tags: Philip K. Dick

The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin

January 24, 2018 by Christina

Fiction — audiobook. Read by George Guidall. Recorded Books, 2016. Originally published 1969. 9 hours, 39 minutes. Purchased. The sixth book in the Hainish Cycle series follows a human emissary from Earth (also known as Terra) on behalf of the planetary confederation of Ekumen to a planet roughly seventeen light years away from the previously known boundary of the universe.  The Ekumen refer to the planet as Winter because of its observed climate and landscape, but the inhabitants of the […]

Categories: 2018 Reads, Audiobook, Awards and Prizes, Book Club, Classics, Fiction, Hugo Award, Nebula Award, Science Fiction • Tags: George Guidall, Ursula K Le Guin