The Aeneid – Virgil – Robert Fitzgerald (translator)
Epic poems are a medium well out of date, but Fitzgerald’s translation seems to hold a lot of fidelity to them.
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Fiction
Speaker of the Dead – Orson Scott Card
Speaker for the Dead won me over, despite a slow start.
The Snail on the Slope – Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
Every read something and feel like your education really wasn’t up to the task of understanding it?
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Space Opera – Catherine M. Valente
Exuberance! is a stylistic choice.
Eon – Greg Bear
I didn’t want to dislike this book, but I just didn’t seem to scratch any itch.
Babylon’s Ashes – James S.A. Corey
This book was a bit of a dip in the series, at least in comparison to the previous one.
The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet – Becky Chambers
If you try to make a book of characters alone, surely something will be missing. Notably, story.
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Parable of the Sower – Octavia Butler
Octavia Butler was a master of showing us the worst of all possible outcomes, but not letting us lose our faith on the way.
Oryx and Crake – Margaret Atwood
Oryx and Crake lingers around in your head like a bad house guest. That’s actually a pretty nice thing to say about it.
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August – Claire North
Sometimes things are not as you expect them to be. Pleasantly so.
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