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Upgrade: A Novel by Blake Crouch

August 24, 2022

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As summer winds down, it’s time for one last hurrah of propulsive, can’t-put-down, vacation reading. For me, it was Upgrade by Blake Crouch. In the novel, Agent Logan Ramsey shares his troublesome past and the present that’s shattered his life as he knew it. It’s an unspecified time in the future and he’s on the run trying to find and stop the person who believes their idea of ... Read More...

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Into the Drowning Deep

November 17, 2021

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I’ve officially reached the point in the year that my reading is what I call free range. I still have two books left to read that release in 2021, but by-and-large I’m reading whatever catches my eye at the library or catching up on older books that have been recommended to me by readers I trust. It was in this mindset that I stumbled across Into the Drowning Deep by Mira ... Read More...

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The High-Rise Diver: A Novel

April 14, 2021

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A young woman, strong and proud, stands on the top of a high-rise thousands of feet tall. Below her a crowd chants her name and yells for her to jump. She does, plunging to within inches of certain death before activating the flight mode in her specially constructed suit and soaring back up above the crowd. She is Riva, 20-years-old and a chosen athlete, a physically perfect ... Read More...

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Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

April 7, 2021

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In an unspecified place, sometime in the future, Klara waits inside a store for her new best friend. Days pass and she moves from section to section, often gazing out the main window onto the street, observing and absorbing what’s happening in the world outside. She has a strong sense of who her new friend will be, a girl that only she can help, so when Josie arrives, she knows ... Read More...

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Master Class by Christina Dalcher

May 22, 2020

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Christina Dalcher’s debut novel, Vox, established her as one of those writers who can layer present events onto the future and make it grim, but plausible. In the novel, separation of church and state disappear and one of the first acts of the new government is to restrict the number of words a woman can speak each day. Yeah. Now, she’s back and she sets Master Class in a ... Read More...

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The Road by Cormac McCarthy

March 2, 2020

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You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. A man and his young son are walking on a desolate road surrounded by burnt trees and ashes. In the distance fires still burn. They are headed…where? To safety would seem to be the answer, but in Cormac McCarthy’s The Road there is no safe place. The world as we know it has gone up in flames. ... Read More...

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