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Month: November 2020

Review: A Deadly Education, by Naomi Novik

November 9, 2020April 4, 2021 ~ Max ~ Leave a comment

“A Deadly Education” comes very close to being my 2020 book of the year. The best slug I can come up with is “Hogwarts, if Hogwarts explicitly wanted to eat you.”

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Favorite Recent Books:

Science Fiction:

  • The Murderbot Diaries (Sassy robot with social anxiety)
  • Red Rising (Hunger games in space)
  • Terra Ignota (Very odd near-future science fiction with great moral questions)
  • Gone Away World (If Terry Pratchett teamed up with Kurt Vonnegut)

 

Non-Fiction:

  • Born a Crime (Auto-bio of a South African comedian)
  • Scout Mindset (A book about thinking clearly)

Fantasy:

  • House of Earth and Blood (Almost a romance novel)
  • Spinning Silver (Russian fairy tale with great construction)
  • The Fifth Season (Middle fantasy that grapples with race)
  • The Aeronaut’s Windlass (Jim Butcher does Steampunk)

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