Oh yes! I've heard so many takes on Death, I'm very curious. Adding Roth to my to-read list now! 👀

I'm taking this seriously and will ask: what sf book (or other) coming out this year are you most excited to read? Ann Leckie's Radiant Star is probably at the top of my list!

Yes! This has been one of my favourite winter albums. I'm really appreciating this musical advent calendar, btw! Thank you!

I hadn't thought of that! I wonder, too, if part of it is because the empire and other systems are in the midst of falling (iirc) - it's less claustrophobic for me. I just recommended it to a couple students - I'll see what they report back, ha!

One of the three golden sapphics that came out around that time! I remember the cover so distinctly! If you enjoy it, it reminded me of Dickinson's Baru Cormorant books (though, uh, Baru is also pretty brutal with the intersecting systemic oppression)

Here are the top 10 most popular post-1945 American authors at the Seattle Public Library over the last 20 years.

I've requested that my library purchase it, and I might get it for myself too...congrats on it! I'm excited to read it, especially as I use the SFF book club that I run as an excuse to discuss texts for my SFF courses!

With a title quoting Emily Dickinson, a lot of poetry is what I want! 🔥 I hope you like it - I just finished it yesterday, and I think that it is in my top books of the year so far!

It also has a chapter which excerpts, at length, a lecture on Milton...anyway, I'm really enjoying this book!

This sounds SO COOL