Our joint read for this month (science fiction). Sneaking in a few minutes of reading while waiting for my daughter‘s basketball game to start. This will wrap up our 2024 joint read - my partner and I alternate picks each month to read and discuss.
pickThis is a pick x1000.
If you enjoy SF and LitSF I would highly recommend this. It's very short, it's beautifully written, and is highly political. I want to force strangers in the street to read it. So please stack add, go read the first chapter, let yourself get sucked into the writing.
pickThis was such a strange and wonderful book. I didn't realize an alien invasion romance was something I would love so much. But Denver's mission to understand recent bizarre events with the handsome Ezra was heartwarming, & heart-pounding, & so unique. The character journeys during the crisis were so well written. Denver is non-binary & autistic so he believes everyone in his small town dislikes him. But he is determined to save the town anyway
pick☄️☄️☄️☄️
This was lots of fun. Short and sweet, and almost cozy. Definitely want to read the next in the series.
#hauntedshelf
#frightclub
Points: 5hours(50)+tbr(25)+1=76
@Jadams89
pickA really fun, fast space adventure that I enjoyed thoroughly. Our narrator is spunky, funny and independent and is definitely hiding something. It‘s fun trying to work out what and then how it‘s all going to play out. I loved the cast of side characters also and the banter with our main man.
Fantastic novella. Looking forward to the rest of the series.
Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the digital arc!
Our first October celebration is for our lovely @Daisey …HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU! 🥳🥳🥳
Litsyland and the #birthdayfairies are sending you lots of #birthdaylove and wishes for the best day ever!
Enjoy your day, Daisey!
🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈🎈
pick"Crucifixus Etiam" by Walter M. Miller Jr is the final story, and a case of leaving the best until last.
Manue Nanti is a Peruvian manual worker in a work team terraforming Mars. His high-altitude physiology needs less expensive support to breathe the thin Martian atmosphere, but this results in irreversible biological changes that make a return to earth at the expiry of his five year contract unlikely.
If there's such a thing as ⬇️
"Make no mistake. A man may hate and be strengthened and ennobled by it. Let us by all means hate oppression and injustice, hate greed and the cruelty of ignorance and fear. Hatred, so cultivated, is a precious thing - but tend it well. Multiplied too rapidly, dropped carelessly in too fertile soil, allowed to cross with ignorant prejudice, blind self-seeking, it may bloom at last into death and destruction for us all. ⬇️
pick"The Gnarly Man" by L. Sprague de Camp
I love stories about Neanderthals surviving into the present, and this is a good one about an immortal hominin whose current "undercover" identity is Coney Island sideshow curiosity "Ungo-Bungo". He unwisely breaks cover when approached by anthropologist Dr. Matilda Saddler, and faces the possibility of the re-extinction of his species.
pick"Who Shall I Say is Calling?" by August Derleth
Maryla and her brother drive by chance past a country house where they see a masquerade party in progress. Deciding to gatecrash, they are readily accepted as attending in the guise of Count and Lady Dracula, despite not being in costume! ??♂️??♀️
Derleth's dialogue is archly humourous, and the reader's suspecting more than the partygoers about the nature of the siblings is delicious ?
