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April 6, 2022

JOINT REVIEW: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

JanineB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended Reads1910s / Emily St. John Mandel / future / investigation / joint review / Literary fiction / lunar colony / moon / mystery / New York City / nonlinear timeline / Pandemic / Speculative-Fiction / Time-Travel / Vancouver Island19 Comments

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Janine: Jennie and I loved Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel’s breakout novel (Jennie even caught up on one or two earlier books by the author), so we reviewed her follow up, The Glass Hotel, together. When we heard she had a new book, Sea of Tranquility, we decided to ... more >

March 25, 2022

DUELING REVIEW: How High We Go in the Dark by Sequoia Nagamatsu

JennieB Reviews / B+ Reviews / Book Reviews / C Reviews / C+ Reviews#ownvoices / Asian Americans / California / death / Fantasy / grief / Japan / joint review / Literary Fabulism / near-future / Novel-in-Stories / Pandemic / POC / POC author / Speculative-Fiction12 Comments

Content warnings: Jennie: When Janine suggested we review this book together, I hadn’t heard of it. But the blurb told me it was dystopian, and I have a weakness for dystopian novels even though they don’t always end up working for me. Though it’s billed as a novel, How High ... more >

May 31, 2021

REVIEW: The Cretaceous Past by Cixin Liu, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon

JayneB- Reviews / Book Reviewsanimals / dinosaurs / Historical / metaphor / moral lesson / POC author / science / Speculative-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: The Cretaceous Past by Cixin Liu, translated by Elizabeth Hanlon

All the years of human civilization represent an infinitesimal fraction of the time since life first burgeoned on planet Earth. How likely is it, then, in those great depths of time, that humanity alone benefitted from the spark of intelligence which gave rise to culture? This is the question posed ... more >

November 27, 2017

REVIEW: Where the Stars Rise – Anthology

JayneB+ Reviews / Book Reviews / Recommended ReadsAnthology / Asia / diversity / family relationships / Fantasy / multicultural / Paranormal / POC / POC author / Sci-fi / space travel / Speculative-FictionComments Off on REVIEW: Where the Stars Rise – Anthology

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SHORT DESCRIPTION: Take a journey through Asia and beyond with twenty-three original thought-provoking and moving stories about identities, belonging, and choices—stories about where we come from and where we are going—each wrestling between ghostly pasts and uncertain future. LONG DESCRIPTION: ALL EMOTIONS ARE UNIVERSAL. WE LIVE, WE DREAM, WE STRIVE, ... more >

Google Books
December 4, 2014

Thursday News: Authors Guild v. Google redux, the pitfalls of social media research, and two fantabulous articles on cultural representation

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Second Circuit Hears Google Books Case – Yesterday was the day for oral arguments in the appeals case Authors Guild has brought in the hopes of reversing the lower court’s summary judgment against them. Arguments apparently went to 90 minutes, 60 over the allotted time, but the fact that the ... more >

Apple
May 6, 2014

Tuesday News: #AmazonCart on Twitter; the real, made-up Apple Earbuds; the Book Smugglers try publishing; and how do you handle book jackets

JanetPublishing NewsAmazon / Anthology / Apple / hardcover books / publishing / Speculative-Fiction / Twitter11 Comments

Twitter’s New #AmazonCart Deal Won’t Be Its Big Commerce Moneymaker – So now you can add products to your Amazon cart with a Twitter hashtag. First, of course, you have to link up the two accounts, and I don’t think the service works for items that can only be purchased ... more >

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