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Hag-Seed

September 19, 2016 by Drew

The Short Version: Felix Phillips, reeling from the death of his daughter, has been deposed as artistic director of the Makeshewig Theater Festival by his unscrupulous associate. After years in exile, he emerges with a plan to get his revenge – a plan that involves teaching theater to prisoners and creating a real-life version of The Tempest. For the play’s the thing wherein he just might catch the conscience of those who wronged him… and maybe his own as well… The […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Fiction, Hag-Seed, Hogarth, Hogarth Books, Hogarth Shakespeare, Literature, Margaret Atwood, review, Reviews, The Tempest, Theater

The Heart Goes Last

December 7, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Nick and Charmaine are a down-on-their-luck couple, living in their car in an America of the near future. When they’re offered the opportunity to join Consilience/Positron, a new planned community where you alternate between civilian and prison inmate every month, they leap at the chance for a new life – but is it all too good to be true? The Review: When I was in my early teens, my family went to Disney World and, during the […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Dystopia, Fiction, Humor, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Positron, Prison, Reviews, Satire, Sci-Fi, The Heart Goes Last

Story Time: A Reflection on Margaret Atwood’s MaddAddam Trilogy

February 9, 2015 by Dani

Trilogies are odd. They’re not always big enough to span the sort of time and adventure that longer series do, but they’re split into parts for a reason, right? So sometimes in reading trilogies I find myself wanting the whole scoop all at once. I want to have the bird’s-eye-view so I know what I’m dealing with. I suppose you could say I’m a greedy reader. THUS: Drew and I finished the MaddAddam Trilogy at the same time, so while his excellent […]

Categories: Features • Tags: Dani Lencioni, Faith, Features, Fiction, Future, History, Hope, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Religion, Storytelling, Technology, The Year of the Flood

MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book #3)

January 28, 2015 by Drew

The Short Version: Ren, Toby, Snowman (Jimmy), the Crakers, and the remainder of the God’s Gardeners/MaddAddamites have gathered together in the post-Flood world – but the violent Painballers are still on the loose and while the Crakers learn the past story of Zeb & Adam, those in the present must lay the foundation for what will come next. The Review: There comes a line early in this concluding chapter of Margaret Atwood’s post-apocalyptic warning-disguised-as-popular-literature that tips off the reader to […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Apocalypse, Biology, Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crake, Crakers, Dystopia, Fiction, Literature, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Science, Snowman, Speculative, Survival, Trilogies, Trilogy

The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book #2)

December 22, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: In a not-too-distant future, a massive plague has wiped out most of the population. A young woman named Ren escaped through an accidental quarantine at a strip club and another woman, Toby, has managed to hole up in a run-down spa – but time is running out for the both of them and they’ll have to decide whether or not to venture forth very soon. How they got here – and how they are related to Snowman, […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: Book Review, Book Reviews, Books, Crake, Fiction, Literature, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Reviews, Sci-Fi, Speculative Fiction, the Flood, The Year of the Flood

Shadow Show

October 21, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: A collection of stories inspired by and written for perhaps the greatest of fantastical forefathers, Ray Bradbury. Some set in the future, some in the past – some completely magical, others holding only the smallest seedling of magic… but all deeply indebted to Ray’s exceptional legacy. As he calls it in his foreword, it’s a Second Homecoming – his children, come home to the October Country to pay homage to their passing king. The Review: I don’t tend […]

Categories: Fantasy, Fiction, Horror, Literature, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Short Stories • Tags: A Tribute to Ray Bradbury, A Visit to Octo, Alice Hoffman, Audrey Niffenegger, Charles Yu, Dan Chaon, Dave Eggers, Fantasy, Fiction, Harlan Ellison, Horror, Joe Hill, Literature, Margaret Atwood, Mort Castle, Mystery, Neil Gaiman, Ray Bradbury, Sam Weller, Sci-Fi, Shadow Show, Short Stories

Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam Trilogy, Book #1)

August 5, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Sometime not too far into the future, humanity has been decimated (perhaps obliterated) by a super-plague. A single survivor, known once as Jimmy and now as Snowman, lives with a tribe of genetically modified proto-humans and ekes out a tenuous existence as a prophet of his friend Crake and the woman they both loved, Oryx. As he embarks on a treacherous journey for supplies, the backstory of how humanity failed – and the parts Crake, Oryx, and […]

Categories: Fiction, Literature, Sci-Fi • Tags: BookClub, Dystopia, Fiction, Literature, MaddAddam, Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake, Sci-Fi

Raging Biblio-holism

The overwhelming urge to collect, consume, and consider books

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