Tag: Reading

  • Gulp, by Mary Roach

    Gulp, by Mary Roach

    This is a new direction for my reading this year. I don’t typically read much science. Science Fiction? Sure. But straight up science? Not so much. I have an English Degree. The closest I’ve come to real science is the BIO-101 course I took as junior, and the cadaver still shows up in my nightmares…

  • Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum

    Red Famine, by Anne Applebaum

    I’ve had this book on my to-read list for a while. The timing wasn’t great, as things here in the States are about to get pretty grim for the next four years, but it’s a piece of history I knew very little about. For anyone unfamiliar with this book, it’s the history of what’s known…

  • Central Station, by Lavie Tidhar

    Central Station, by Lavie Tidhar

    This past week, at a writers’ accountability meeting, a friend of mine recommended that I give this a read. I was asking about a concept that (for some reason) I struggle to describe in a succinct way: A book series with a set world but different casts of characters. Picture Middle Earth, but instead of…