charli reviewed Bike Battles by James Longhurst
Americans have been riding bikes for more than a century now. So why are most …
Stevenson's style is the perfect fit for this fairy tale
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brilliant, joyful, unrepentant fun
5 stars
charli reviewed Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
From the Publisher:
A National Book Award Longlist Title
The graphic novel debut from rising …
heartbreaking and wonderful
5 stars
charli reviewed Walkaway by Cory Doctorow
a frustratingly bad book about some genuinely interesting ideas
3 stars
i really wish someone got Doctorow an editor and deleted the sex scenes
charli reviewed The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
The Hobbit is a tale of high adventure, undertaken by a company of dwarves in …
an evergreen masterpiece
5 stars
Heretics of Dune is a 1984 science fiction novel by Frank Herbert, the fifth in …
mystical horniness
3 stars
charli reviewed Dead Astronauts by Jeff VanderMeer
Surreal, devastating, joyful
5 stars
charli reviewed Darkly by Leila Taylor
Haunting and powerful
4 stars
Leila Taylor's sharp critique and wide-ranging scope reveal the true face of American horror
charli reviewed A Safe Girl to Love by Casey Plett
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster …
trans beauty
5 stars
one of the first collections i read after coming out, and a constant favorite to return to. messy, heartfelt, beautiful.
charli reviewed Slug and Other Stories by Megan Milks
A woman metamorphoses into a giant slug; another quite literally eats her heart out; a …
beautiful, twisted, phantasmagorical
4 stars
this collection broke me, in a beautiful way. Megan Milks writes with reverence and horror about the way unconscious desires take form, transmutate, transgress and twist. not every story is a winner, but even the ones that missed for me struck me with their immediacy, their presence of voice and life. trans literary fiction, with all raunchy violent tenderness of contemporary life. check this one out.
charli reviewed A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
Dimos Horacki is a Borolian journalist and a cynical patriot, his muckraking days behind him. …
a beautiful dream to work towards
5 stars
charli reviewed Bestiary by K-Ming Chang
Three generations of Taiwanese American women are haunted by the myths of their homeland in …
Dreamlike & strange, horrific and heartbreaking.
5 stars
charli reviewed Writing Down the Bones by Natalie Goldberg
For more than twenty years Natalie Goldberg has been challenging and cheering on writers with …
Quietly brilliant.
5 stars
This book will be on my writing desk for a very long time, just in case I need to borrow some of Natalie Goldberg's wisdom.
charli reviewed Cloud Cuckoo Land
