Book Reviews
This page is to feature book reviews I've written. It's more meant as a catalogue for myself than anything. This way, if I want to recommend a book to someone later, I have a record of it, in case I've forgotten the title.
A bunch of books i've read - A cataloguing of books that I had mostly read before I started bearblogging, and before I realized I wanted individual posts for individual books.
A bunch of books I've read #2 - A more recent cataloguing of books that didn't make it into individual Book Review posts.
Favorite Books
Where a book series is a favorite, I will only feature the first book of the series in this section.
Fifth Season is book 1 of my all time favorite book series.
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Reed's Promise by John Clarkson
Bill Reed gets into a bad motorcycle wreck and loses a leg before he reconnects with his "retarded" cousin John Boyd, who is kept in a not-so-great institution.
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Bears of North America by Stan Tekiela
It's a book about bears, it's the best book
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What Is Real? by Adam Becker
A book investigating the history of Quantum Mechanics and challenging the mainstream view within the Physics Community
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A Shot In The Moonlight by Ben Montgomery
George Dinning was a slave, freed after the civil war who was attacked by a white mob and defended himself, then began a precedent-setting legal battle
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The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin
Yet another excellent book series by Jemisin. I won't summate the premise here because it's slightly a spoiler.
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The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms by N.K. Jemisin
A story of the conflict between enslaved gods and the Arameri family - rulers of the world - as well as the relationship between Yeine Darr and those gods. (series)
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Black Sun by Rebecca Roanhorse
Dead gods, priests ruling over the world, a time of peace, sailing across the sea (series)
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Dreamcatcher by Stephen King
Idk what to say about it but it was really good!
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Fifth Season by N.K. Jemisin
Orogenes are humans with magical powers to manipulate the earth. Guardians control them and rock-eaters are a whole other being.(series)
Book Reviews
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Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom
Mitch reconnects with his former professor, who is dying from ALS, and they discuss the meaning of life. Short book.
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Rogue Justice by Stacey Abrams
A sequel to When Justice Sleeps, with a very interesting plot & much improved upon the first
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The Tao of Physics by Fritjof Capra
A look at modern physics theories like quantum mechanics, and Eastern spiritualities like Buddhism, drawing parallels between the two
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Reinventing American Health Care by Ezekiel Emanuel
An overview of the American Healthcare system and Obamacare, published early 2014
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When Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
There's some big conspiracy surrounding a Supreme Court Justice who's fallen into a coma.
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Parable of the Sower by Octavia Butler
Lauren writes a diary about her life, as she lives in a hellscape of America, ravaged by climate change, poverty, and crime, set in 2025ish, written in 1990s
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A Drop of Corruption by Robert Jackson Bennett
A murder mystery detective investigation book, set in a fantasy world where people are augmented with special abilities. There is a broader plot that goes beyond the murder mystery.
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Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book 3 of the Between Earth and Sky series
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A bunch of books I read (or at least started)
Second Catalogue of books I've read
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The Library at Hellebore by Cassandra Khaw
A book i really didn't like, and didn't finish
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Fevered Star by Rebecca Roanhorse
Book #2 of the Between Earth and Sky series, an excellent follow-up to the first
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Walking Practice by Dolki Min
A shapeshifting alien struggles to survive on earth, where keeping their human-form and simply walking up stairs takes a great toll on them.
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The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
Book 3 in the Broken Earth Series - Best books I've read
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Kindred by Octavia Butler
Kindred by Olivia Butler is a story of Dana, a 1976 Black Woman who time travels to the 1810s in the slave-holding antebellum South
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The Obelisk Gate by N.K. Jemisin
Book 2 in the Broken Earth Series - Another absolute favorite
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Fledgling by Octavia Butler
Story of an Ina (vampire) girl-woman who wakes up with no memories and finds a burned village.
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Book: Holly by Stephen King
Private investigator Holly pursues a case about a missing girl. Sequel to End of Watch and two other books in that series.
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Antiracism as daily practice by Jennifer Harvey
Inspires me to speak more confidently about race in my life, not to shy away from uncomfortable topics around family. She talks about how white supremacy is supported by white silence.
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A bunch of books I've read
Old post cataloguing books I had read, with some commentary about them