Debut author Yiming Ma brilliantly, presciently constructs a future when the United States is Qin-America, long subsumed by Qin, a new China able to "crush [Western] enemies once and for all." Mindbanks--"devices... directly installed into the hippocampi"--"made Qin into this great empire."| www.shelf-awareness.com
This is a faithful photographic reproduction of a two-dimensional, public domain work of art. The work of art itself is in the public domain for the following reason:| commons.wikimedia.org
Catching up on two recent review books today: a hard-hitting volume of poems about family dysfunction and racism; and the pandemic year as captured in black-and-white illustrations and short autobi…| Bookish Beck
I started my reading for Novellas in November early with these three review books, one nonfiction and two fiction. They have in common the fact that they are published today –although I believe two…| Bookish Beck
There is a state between life and death: it’s called the waxworks. Apparently the 4th was Super Thursday: 544 books were published in the UK as part of the autumn rush leading up to Christmas. I’ve…| Bookish Beck