Recent reading
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luzulaNew York 2140 by Kim Stanley Robinson
I am so grateful for the optimistic tone in this book! It's hardly a utopia, and the premise is that sea level has risen 50 feet because of climate change, but still there's a political energy and hopefulness here that I think a lot of us need. The characters are all residents in a co-op skyscraper in NYC which has its bottom floors underwater, like all of lower Manhattan does. Recommended! (Also, this is KSR's umpteenth book in which a man is attracted to a woman who is taller than he is...)
Häxringarna by Kerstin Ekman (The Witch Rings, which I guess doesn't make much sense in English--it refers to mushrooms that grow outwards in circles)
Historical fiction about people (mostly women) in the Swedish town of Katrineholm and how the town grew up around a railway station. It's the first book in the series Kvinnorna och staden (The Women and the Town). My main takeaway from this book is women getting pregnant and then abandoned by the man who fathered the baby. It happens three times in 300 pages (though to be fair, one of the men dies). Aaagh, contraceptives and abortion and men taking responsibility, can we please haz them. Will probably be reading more?
I am so grateful for the optimistic tone in this book! It's hardly a utopia, and the premise is that sea level has risen 50 feet because of climate change, but still there's a political energy and hopefulness here that I think a lot of us need. The characters are all residents in a co-op skyscraper in NYC which has its bottom floors underwater, like all of lower Manhattan does. Recommended! (Also, this is KSR's umpteenth book in which a man is attracted to a woman who is taller than he is...)
Häxringarna by Kerstin Ekman (The Witch Rings, which I guess doesn't make much sense in English--it refers to mushrooms that grow outwards in circles)
Historical fiction about people (mostly women) in the Swedish town of Katrineholm and how the town grew up around a railway station. It's the first book in the series Kvinnorna och staden (The Women and the Town). My main takeaway from this book is women getting pregnant and then abandoned by the man who fathered the baby. It happens three times in 300 pages (though to be fair, one of the men dies). Aaagh, contraceptives and abortion and men taking responsibility, can we please haz them. Will probably be reading more?
