#12Booksof2024 April
I‘ve read too many great books this year and it‘s so hard to chose one from every month. But this has stuck with me
Honorable mentions:
Brotherless Night by V. V. Ganeshananthan
Soldier Sailor by Claire Kilroy
Forgotten on a Sunday by Valerie Perrin
pickBook 102🎧 4⭐️
I listed to this one because it was mentioned a few time in the FROM📺 conspiracies😂
I‘m not quite sure if I get it aside from the cover looking like the photo of Boyds cottage.
pick⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️This book has been on my shelf since basically the minute I finished Williams‘ Seven Days in June, so I hadn‘t read a summary of it in a long time, and that was actually a really fun way to go into it.
There‘s romance, Black history, Harlem Renaissance, and some magical realism thrown in to make it extra special. I listened to this one except the very end and I thought the two readers did a great job.
Tia Williams is a must read for me.
pickThese are Anunnaki! Who are Anunnaki you ask? Old older than old Sumerian gods that mated with Homo erectus via IVF to create humans as a slave species
WHAT?? That can‘t be true!
Of course it isn‘t! It‘s retrofitting mythology to entertain crackpot theories. Zecharia Sitchin? Erich von Däniken?
One way ticket to Crazytown *but* entertaining. Nick Redfern is the same. Pseudoarchaeology for bored archaeologists. Indulge with that in mind. ?
bailedThis has the right title, I feel like I've been reading it for an eternity and nothing has happened. I don't know if it's because Mack Reynolds passed away before finishing it, and Dean Ing completed the story, but it moves like s friggin glacier. I don't mind a slow burn mystery but this is ridiculous. #hailthebail
The girl he had met on a bench in the plaza near the bus stop had told him the only hotel in town suitable for a gringo was the Casa de Sierra Nevada.
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pickOh, yes please. The blend of sci fi how could technology help to figure out the origins of immortality - and history/archaeology - looking back on how the continuity of an unkillable human would affect the civilizations they interact with, the flow of myths, information, even artifacts. And then there's the plight of the immortal warrior - so much loss and no rest - and then there's the very well plotted/paced intrigue 1/?
pickI loved this. I really appreciate this smart and funny author. Magical realism and romance aren't necessarily my thing but I'm here for it regardless.
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