pickI think I would have enjoyed this as a decent coming-of-age story, even without the alien “twist”. It did make me feel quite sad at times.
#ToB25
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pickI think I would have enjoyed this as a decent coming-of-age story, even without the alien “twist”. It did make me feel quite sad at times.
#ToB25
pickThe second half of the 5th wave was focusing on a theme of how resilient people can be and how just a sliver of hope can go a long way. This is shown in the main character, Cassie‘s persistence to continue to fight for the human race. Once the main character, Cassie, finds out Evan Walker who is another important character, is actually the one who shot her and that he is actually an alien,the whole book is flipped on its head.
pickAn amusing bit of strange. Part way seems to want to point out how we take for granted treating 'man's best friend' a particular way, in the certain belief that they enjoy it, and part way a standard tale of alien experiencing what we see as familiar, and part way a commentary on the revelations available when we interact with a new being and recognize when we're expecting them to react as others have (especially those who look similar) 1/?
pickI read this one for #bookspin. It‘s on the shortlist for #tournamentofbooks. It is an interesting story of a teenage alien in the 1990s and early 2000s, learning to be human.
pickDefinitely a top book for the year ALREADY! 😆 Also a possible contender for #PieinLit Award nominee 🥇🥧 #OatmealPie #PieCharts #Jan2025 Book1 #ReadICT category: #StrongWoman
I would love to discuss this one. #LitsyToB? 😊
pickAn alien is sent to earth to inhabit the body of a mathematician in order to prevent his recent discovery from allowing human advancement into deep space travel. But the longer the alien spends on earth, the more sympathy and fondness he develops for his "family" and all of humankind (thanks in no small part to Emily Dickenson and the Beach Boys). This makes them infinitely more difficult to kill. Lovely start to the year. 4⭐️
#FirstBook of 2025
Goal = 100 Books -or- 35,000 pages
Complete #WiaN, #AsheCoNC, #ReadICT Challenges
Be a Tournament of Books Completist
Grow my Litfluence from 46227 to 70k? (Still not sure if I care)
Happy New Year 🎆
so-soThis was between a So-So and a Pan. The actual stories of UAP are super cool, but this book gets so bogged down by government acronyms, and bureaucratic bullshit, I struggled to follow along. (56)
⭐️: 2.5/5
Interesting quest space opera with really alien aliens and nicely drawn characters. I enjoyed her imaginative retelling of the grail quest.
