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April #ReadYourKindle picks. There are a few on here I might just read even if they aren't picked 😀

@CBee

I chose my airplane book. I picked the one I don't think I'll mind leaving behind in a random LFL or indie coffee shop when I finish it to make room for newly-purchased books.

Since a new book is coming out, I figured I needed to catch up and read this one. I did see the movie, so I knew the overall story, but I still enjoyed the book. Could‘ve been shorted; it dragged on in several places. It‘s a little clunky, but was interesting to see all the tie-ins to the original trilogy.

I think this is my first real climate change fiction and it's blown me away to be honest. This book felt so real that every blow of the wind, every beat of the sun, has confused me. My reality has mixed with this reading experience and now I'm so element aware I'm on the verge on turning into a prepper.

This version of end of the world as we know it is so female and I love it. I watched this from the pages, this is so adaptable for screen.

Ireland is falling apart. The government is turning against its people and Eilish's husband has disappeared. As a mother of four, with a father slowly losing his memories, Eilish is in full survival mode.

This book is raw, intense and made my heart pound. Every scene here we've seen on the news. We know this story, but we're aren't used to reading about it affecting Westerners. Affecting white people.

And that's the point.

This massive book, a chronicle of the climate crisis as it plays out over the course of several years, was brilliant, terrifying & at times overwhelming. A terrorist, an activist, a data analyst, an advertising executive, a scientist, their lovers, friends & family, all play their parts as the future inexorably arrives, day after day. This was a masterpiece, & all the more horrifying because, after the election, it feels if anything too optimistic

When I heard there was a black female science fiction author who in the 1970s envisioned societal collapse from climate change set in the year 2025, I was all in. A book that indeed feels as prophetic and true as 1984 and Handmaid‘s Tale. It was a griping novel that forces you to look at what themes in life will help you survive. Clear eyes and adaptability will sustain you in these times. Perhaps summed up best, by the heroines: “God is change.”

Feeling slumpy so calling it for March. Full of #banned dystopian paperbacks and LGBTQIA+ ebooks to cheer me up.

Edit: +1 Finished The Handmaid‘s Tale late last night/early this morning.

Really liked this one about a future world where everyone is dead from a big bad fog, except a small group living on an island, all villagers and three elders who rule the roost. They seem happy enough, but are they? Big twist and a rather convoluted ending, but all in all kept my attention till I got to the end.

@BarbaraBB