dd rated The City We Became: 3 stars
The City We Became by N. K. Jemisin (The Great Cities Duology, #1)
In Manhattan, a young grad student gets off the train and realizes he doesn't remember who he is, where he's …
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dd rated My Sister, the Serial Killer: 4 stars
Oyinkan Braithwaite: My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group)
My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
"Satire meets slasher in this short, darkly funny hand grenade of a novel about a Nigerian woman whose younger sister …
dd rated So You Want to Talk About Race: 4 stars
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
In this breakout book, Ijeoma Oluo explores the complex reality of today's racial landscape--from white privilege and police brutality to …
dd rated Bury the lede: 4 stars
Bury the lede by Gaby Dunn, Claire Roe
From New York Times-bestselling author Gaby Dunn comes a story of an ambitious young reporter and the potential murderess who …
dd rated Star Wars: Tales from the Mos Eisley Cantina: 2 stars
dd rated Meaty: essays: 3 stars
Meaty: essays by Samantha Irby
"Samantha Irby explodes onto the printed page with her debut collection of brand-new essays about trying to laugh her way …
Review of 'Ask a Manager: How to Navigate Clueless Colleagues, Lunch-Stealing Bosses, and the Rest of Your Life at Work' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
dd rated The Underground Railroad: 4 stars
The Underground Railroad by Colson Whitehead
Cora is a slave on a cotton plantation in Georgia. Life is hell for all the slaves, but especially bad …
dd reviewed Autonomous by Annalee Newitz
Autonomous features a rakish female pharmaceutical pirate named Jack who traverses the world in her …
Review of 'Autonomous' on 'Goodreads'
4 stars
The world building was interesting and nerdy. I could do without some of the details about the IPC squad’s relationship. I wonder what a different look at the indenture/slavery angle would look like.
dd rated Annihilation Movie Tie-in: 3 stars
Annihilation Movie Tie-in by Jeff VanderMeer
Area X has been cut off from the rest of the continent for decades. Nature has reclaimed the last vestiges …
dd rated Kill Decision: 3 stars
Kill Decision by Daniel Suarez
When the U.S. finds itself subjected to targeted drone assassinations, the race is on to find those responsible. But after …
dd rated Kill Switch: 3 stars
dd rated Kill Process (Kill Chain): 4 stars
Kill Process (Kill Chain) by William Hertling
By day, Angie, a twenty-year veteran of the tech industry, is a data analyst at Tomo, the world's largest social …
