2026

I've been bad at keeping track.

1. Project Hail Mary, Andy Weir: Eh, fine. Hard to put down, but the science is garbage and there's too much Great Man nonsense. It feels like a bad Hollywood film (and apparently was written with a contract for a film already signed). Anyway, Rocky is lovely; the rest is trash.
2. Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro: lovely, little sad of course (how could it be anything else with a title like that?).
3. This Is How You Lose the Time War, Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. Cute. The ending is weak, though. It could have been more heartwrenchingly sad, or more heartwarmingly happy, or more interesting—but it's a time travel cliché.
4. Deep End, Ali Hazelwood
5. Convenience Store Woman, Sayaka Murata
6. The Kamogawa Food Detectives, Hisashi Kashiwai
7. Orlanda, Jacqueline Harpman
8. I Who Have Never Known Men, Jacqueline Harpman
9. Keep the River on Your Right, Tobias Schneebaum
10. Partial/Truths: How Fractions Distort Our Thinking, James C. Zimring: Somewhere between How to Lie with Statistics and Statistics Done Wrong, but too wordy and repetitive to be great. Many references, and the short bit about social networks was somewhat new to me.