I ordered the sequel the second I finished and immediately dove in. I'm only sad I waited: it's a fantastically smart novel, perfectly poised at the intersection of Le Guin & Iain M. I bought A Memory Called Empire right when it came out, but only just now read it. My favorite of her novels so far.Ī Memory Called Empire by Arkady Martine. I loved Adrienne Celt’s latest, a smart, funny time loop novel about friendship in a time of apocalypse (climate change, global war, and capitalism here, among others), with the time loops promising possibility even as the future always feels unfairly foreshortened. )Įnd of the World House by Adrienne Celt. (I ordered her Hild even before I’d finished Spear. Some of my favorite sentences of the year so far were in this book, and I can’t wait to read more of Griffith’s fiction. I absolutely adored this new Arthurian adventure, which is not just smart and moving, but also gorgeously written. Be safe, be kind, and have fun with your reading and writing! Registration comes with a copy of Refuse to Be Done, so if you don’t have a copy yet, this might be a fun way to grab one.Īs always, I hope your writing is going well, and that you and yours are happy and healthy. Otherwise, things are pretty slow here, after a busy few months! I do have one more public event this month, a virtual lecture at the Miami Book Fair, if you’d like to join me. Lately we’ve been enthusing again about Chris Bachelder’s The Throwback Special, one of our shared favorite novels, and so I thought I’d write my essay and exercise about that book this month, as a way of being excited to hang out with him this coming weekend. In Ann Arbor, one of the people I’ll be staying with is Aaron Burch, who I’ve been talking writing with almost as long as I’ve been doing it. (Not that Arizona’s 100-degree days are leaving any doubt as to the season.) As I’m writing this, I’m about to head to Michigan for most of June, first to see friends and have a little writing retreat in Ann Arbor, before heading to my hometown to see my family. With the school year finished and my Refuse to Be Done tour more or less over, it’s finally starting to feel like summer break around here.
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