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All the Water in the World

January 20, 2025

all the water

The time has come. Thanks to climate change coastal cities are being abandoned for those further inland. In Manhattan, a small group of people has stayed behind, creating an encampment on top of the ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: climate fiction, dystopia

I Cheerfully Refuse by Leif Enger

May 14, 2024

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I’m once again fortunate enough to have a book find me and sweep me away despite my proclaimed inability to focus. It’s Leif Enger’s I Cheerfully Refuse an elegant novel of dystopia, mystery, and ... Read More...

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Filed Under: Book Reviews, Fiction Tagged: adventure, literary, suspense

The Future by Naomi Alderman

January 16, 2024

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The road to ruin is paved with certainty. The end of the world is only ever hastened by those who think they will be able to protect their own from the coming storm. From holiday horror to ending ... Read More...

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The Light Pirate

January 2, 2023

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Frida’s baby isn’t due for another month, but as Wanda, a Cat 4 hurricane, bears down on the family’s home in a small Florida town she decides to make her entrance to the world. To mark the event ... Read More...

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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng

November 7, 2022

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What better time to review a novel set in an unspecified time in America’s not-too-distant future than the day before an election? Celeste Ng’s novel, Our Missing Hearts, could either be the way ... Read More...

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