Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman

This, on the other hand, is a longish book, and it’s just horrifying at so many turns. Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty. A flutist stole a bunch of rare birds more or less because he could, and people behaved extremely strangely about it thereafter. This is just a weird situation and a weird book about a weird situation. “Now wait just a minute,” Johnson says at several points where other people should have said it, and I am grateful for that. Kirk Wallace Johnson, The Feather Thief: Beauty, Obsession, and the Natural History Heist of the Century. (I think this is a case where the Goths are fractally confusing, though, because I read an entire book about the Goths and got more confused, not less.) It was a relief when we got to the Lombards and were on much more solid ground. Late Antiquity/early Christendom in a city that doesn’t get as much attention as perhaps it should–lots of politics, lots of mosaics. Judith Herrin, Ravenna: Capital of Empire, Crucible of Europe. Sabrina Vourvoulias’s story was the stand-out piece here, but it was a very solid work in general, and again had a wide range of voices.

Though one of the editors of this volume was the same as the volume above, it was a very different feel, a more genre-central feel.

A beautiful slim volume, each poem lavishly illustrated, gently science fictional, amazing, highly recommended, snuck in under the wire to be one of my favorite books of the year.Īlex Hernandez, Matthew David Goodwin, and Sarah Rafael Garcia, eds., Speculative Fiction for Dreamers: A Latinx Anthology. I particularly appreciated how much room this anthology made for very short and literary pieces so that there was a range of voices, many of whom I had never read before.Īmelia Gorman, Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota. Matthew David Goodwin, ed., Latinx Rising: An Anthology of Latinx Science Fiction and Fantasy. Gwynne Garfinkle, Can’t Find My Way Home. Two volumes of poetry from more than a decade apart, watching Gailey grow in her explorations of fairy tales and comic books and other feminist takes on fantastical tropes. Jeannine Hall Gailey, Becoming the Villainess and Unexplained Fevers. Light-hearted, unexpectedly full of hedgehogs, fun. I put books in these when I finish them, and this was a long-running serial that wrapped up in December…for now. Anta Baku, The Cell Phone Towers of Elfland Season 1.

Field Guide to Invasive Species of Minnesota by Amelia Gorman