To tide you over between regular episodes, Robin reads their blog post from April 2023.
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This is a follow-up to my review of "Feed Them Silence" by Lee Mandelo, involving some thoughts that are too personal to make sense in the review as they swiftly veer away from the text specifically and instead into a broader meta-conversation of books like this which I have read previously, assumed correlations between emotional complexity and humanity, and how processing these thoughts has prompted me to make a change in my own life.
CW for discussion of ableism, dehumanization, animal cruelty/death, body-horror-adjacent concepts, and brief mentions of racism and genocide
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Stand-Alone 24: Portrait of a Thief by Grace D. Li
Highlight 23: Sassinak by Elizabeth Moon and Anne McCaffrey
Stand-Alone 23: Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente
Stand-Alone 22: Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Highlight 22: Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
Highlight 21: Legendborn by Tracy Deonn
Stand-Alone 21: The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Highlight 20: The Marrow Thieves by Cherie Dimaline
Stand-Alone 20: “The Atrocities” by Jeremy C. Shipp
Highlight 19: Scavenge The Stars by Tara Sim
Stand-Alone 19: The Forever War - Joe Haldeman
Highlight 18: Jade City - Fonda Lee
Stand-Alone 18: Firebreak by Nicole Kornher-Stace
Highlight 17: Batman: Nightwalker by Marie Lu
Stand-Alone 17: Cemetery Boys - Aiden Thomas
Highlight 16: River of Teeth - Sarah Gailey
Highlight 15: Assassin’s Apprentice - Robin Hobb
Highlight 14: Iron Widow - Xiran Jay Zhao
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