Welcome to the Book Nerd’s Guide to Life! Every other week, we convene in this safe place to discuss the unique challenges of life for people whose noses are always wedged in books. For past guides, click here. Friends, we do not live in optimistic times. Turbulence is all around us. The news is […]
2017: the year that became an adjective. A year during which the only status quo became the lack of one, and the only thing stranger than the day’s trending Twitter topics was the next day’s trending Twitter topics. Wherever you come down on the merits of the past 12 months, there’s no denying the fact […]
As six-month periods go, the first half of 2017 has certainly been, shall we say, interesting. But even as the real world works ever harder to convince us that we’re all living inside a genre novel (though what kind will depend on your particular point of view: sci-fi? Alt-history? Dystopian thriller? Grimdark fantasy?), the authors […]
Borne is the first new novel from Jeff VanderMeer since 2014, when Annihilation, the unsettling story of untrustworthy biologist exploring a swampy alien wilderness infecting the American southeast, won the Nebula Award. The intervening years have done nothing to prune the vegetative weirdness from his work. If anything, his obsessions with the relationship between broken humans and broken biomes (both […]