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2014 – The RB Lit Review

December 31, 2014 by Drew

And so, friends, we come to the end of another year.  So many books read, so much to recap – so let’s dive in. VITAL STATS, YEAR FOUR: Books Read: 137 Pages Read: 48,900 (an exact round number – weiiiird) Average Rating: 3.89 (a definite drop from the last two years, although this may reflect a somewhat broader scope of reading? or sharper critical thinking? who knows.) Highest Rating(s): – 6 out of 5 Jeff VanderMeer’s The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation, Authority, Acceptance) was maybe the […]

Categories: Features • Tags: A Visit From The Goon Squad, Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Bad Books, Broken Monsters, China Miéville, Dani Lencioni, David Mitchell, DC Pierson, Edgar Cantero, Embassytown, Eric Setiawan, FSG Originals Series, good Books, Harper Perennial, Haruki Murakami, How to Get Filthy Rich in Rising Asia, Jeff Vandermeer, Jeffrey Eugenides, Jennifer Egan, Junot Diaz, Kafka on the Shore, Karen Russell, Katherine Faw Morris, Lauren Beukes, Lena Dunham, Meg Wolitzer, Murakami 2014, Nick Harkaway, Not That Kind of Girl, Of Bees and Mist, Olive Editions, Parties, Shirley Jackson, So Many Damn Books, St. Lucy's Home for Girls Raised by Wolves, The Bone Clocks, The Boy Who Couldn't Sleep and Never had to, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The City and the City, The Interestings, The Marriage Plot, The Morning News, The People in the Trees, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Supernatural Enhancements, The Tournament of Books 2014, Tigerman, Vonnegut 201x, We Have Always Lived in the Castle, Woolf 2015, year in review, You Should Have Known, Young God

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The Southern Reach Trilogy

September 30, 2014 by Drew

A masterpost of all three reviews of Jeff VanderMeer’s exceptional, 6-out-of-5 rated Southern Reach Trilogy. ANNIHILATION: Jeff VanderMeer is one of the first authors – long before this blog was even an idea in the back of my mind – who I had the pleasure of making contact with.  I wrote a terrible short play in college set in his marvelous city called Ambergris and I’d emailed him back and forth about it, with questions about the grey caps and […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Book Reviews, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Sci-Fi, The Southern Reach Trilogy, Trilogy, Weird, Weird Fiction

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“We’re All Mad Here” with Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, and Jeff VanderMeer at Housing Works

September 23, 2014 by Drew

(photo courtesy of the Roving Typist himself, Mr. Christopher Hermelin) Last night, at Housing Works Bookstore in Manhattan, a convergence occurred.  A humorous, heartfelt, intelligent, and all-around awesome convergence.  Three authors were brought together to talk about how… well, how “we’re all mad here.”  Because they’re all a little crazy and hey, so are we, so it all works out. A cool slideshow greeted the packed house of attendees while we waited for Lauren Beukes (Broken Monsters), Lev Grossman (The Magician’s […]

Categories: Events, Features • Tags: Acceptance, Annihilation, Authority, Broken Monsters, Events, Fantasy, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Housing Works, Housing Works Bookstore, Jeff Vandermeer, Lauren Beukes, Lev Grossman, The Magician's Land, The Magicians Trilogy, The Southern Reach Trilogy, We're All Mad Here, WORD Bookstore

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Acceptance (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 3)

August 6, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: It’s winter in Area X.  [REDACTED] is [REDACTED] and [REDACTED] [REDACTED]. The Southern Reach, Area X, the Séance & Science Brigade, the lighthouse, the tower/tunnel, the biologist, Control, the director… some sort of conclusion or resolution will be found, for those who dare to seek it.  But what will happen to those who do seek it will [REDACTED]. (Please note: this review will, out of some necessity, traffic in some minor spoilers from Books 1 & 2 – […]

Categories: Fiction • Tags: 5+, 6, Acceptance, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Speculative Fiction, The Southern Reach, The Southern Reach Trilogy

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Authority (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 2)

March 27, 2014 by Drew

The Short Version: In the wake of the disastrous twelfth expedition into Area X (recounted in Annihilation) John Rodriguez – aka Control – has come in to clean up the Southern Reach.  But as he begins to sift through the mess left by the previous director, an unsettling realization begins to bubble up: maybe this mess can’t be cleaned up at all… The Review: Okay.  Okay okay okay.  Elevator pitch: where Annihilation was Lovecraftian wilderness adventure, this is le Carré-meets-The Thing.  AND IT […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Area X, Authority, Fiction, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Spy, The Southern Reach, The Southern Reach Trilogy

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Annihilation (The Southern Reach Trilogy, Book 1)

December 8, 2013 by Drew

The Short Version: Area X, an uninhabited region in an area called the Southern Reach, has been visited by several expeditions.  Each expedition has met a strange and terrible ending – suicide, paranoia, cancerous death, etc.  This is the story of the twelfth expedition and the strange, inexplicable things that they found there. The Review: Jeff Vandermeer is one of the first authors – long before this blog was even an idea in the back of my mind – who I […]

Categories: Fiction, Horror, Literature • Tags: Advance Review, Annihilation, Area X, Book Review, Fiction, FSG Originals, Horror, Jeff Vandermeer, Literature, Reviews, The Southern Reach, The Southern Reach Trilogy, The Tournament of Books 2015, Weird Fiction

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