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Reading Well: The Southern Reach Trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer

The Southern Reach Trilogy (the individual books are Annihilation, Authority, and Acceptance) is an engaging and intriguing piece of horror fantasy, somewhere between traditional Southern Gothic and HP Lovecraft. Each books is pretty short–the whole trilogy is about 800 small-size pages. … Continue reading

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Reading Well: Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel

Station Eleven is delightful and complicated and a well-needed antidote to the brutal banality of much post-apocalyptic fiction. Emily St. John Mandel has posited a world where a horrifically virulent disease has wiped out something like 499 of every 500 people. … Continue reading

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Reading Well: The Painter by Peter Heller

{This is the first in an occasional series, inspired by the concise brilliance of @TheMovies With PopPop. I am often reluctant to review books, as I don’t want to speak ill of future peers (he said, hopefully). That makes this … Continue reading

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