boggle
music cognition phd student trying to find time for personal reading | science/spec fic, magical realism, & mystery | he/him/his
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One Arm Shorter Than The Other
Gigi Ganguly
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The Annual Migration of Clouds
Premee Mohamed
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Welcome, welcome to the recommendations post! This is where you can share your requests for additions to the quest, however please read this first!
Please check to see if your book choice has already been recommended. If you can see your choice in the comments here, give it an upvote so I can see where the most interest is for the additions.
If your suggestion hasn't been recommended, then leave a comment with the title AND author.
Please Note: Not every recommendation is guaranteed to be added to the quest, even if it fits the criteria.
Criteria for Books
Books must be fiction novels or novellas (no short stories, poetry, etc), available in English.
Climate issues MUST be the main focus of the book. It doesn’t have to follow someone actively trying to solve climate issues, but the plot should be happening because of climate change.
Books where the climate issue isn’t the core reason behind the plot will not fit this criteria, eg. Tusks of Extinction is listed as clifi, and is, but it does not qualify for this quest as the main focus is on poaching.
For future additions, I would love to include more diverse books. If you have a suggestion that you are not 100% sure fits the criteria, but is a unique and diverse voice you don’t see represented yet, please leave it below anyway, making sure to note that you are unsure on the criteria.
At the moment I am trying to focus on novels that lean more literary or sci-fi, rather than fantasy. You are free to recommend any genre, but bear in mind I might not look to these until later on in the development of the quest.
If you would like to be nosy and see what is on my to-read list for the quest, 🔗here it is!
Thank you so much everyone!
- Emma
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A Quest For The Future: Climate Fiction ☀️🌍⛈️
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The climate is intrinsic to life on Earth. What happens when it changes? These books examine our reality and imagined futures, both dystopian and utopian, to offer us words of warning, but also hope.
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Death of the Author
Nnedi Okorafor
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This was so phenomenal. Usually with short story collections, there is a distinct gradient of enjoyment—here, every story shines. Each explores in its own way the world of animals and how humans interact with and impact the natural world. It is incredible how much ground Lakshmi Kolluri covers in such a short book, how much depth she achieves in characterization, and how she explores the same theme in an entirely new way with each passing story.
Also of note are the non-fiction news sources for each story. They add even more depth, and can help clarify some points that Lakshmi Kolluri only alludes to.
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What We Fed to the Manticore
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
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What We Fed to the Manticore
Talia Lakshmi Kolluri
2boggle commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
if pagebound had emojis for users profiles like they do for books, which three emojis would you choose for yourself and why?
mine would be 🐝 because i like honey or ⭐️ because i like stars (duh!) 🍊 my favorite fruit 🧵 because i like to crochet but i don't like the emoji 🧶 lol
(i already have them in my bio because no way i would not have them)
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Trespassing is the lot of those who love the sea.
This is a phenomenal collection. Lima stitches together colonial traumas from across the world and illuminates them through the lens of São Tomé. Like the statues referenced throughout the poems, she tears down the colonial legacy and examines its remains.
She captures beautifully and honestly what it means to be an ilhoa, daughter of the island. I’ll be returning by to many of these poems in the years to come.
I wrote this in the forum, but her poems are not opaque (they don’t spell everything out either, though). This is a good collection for either a beginner poetry reader (like myself) or someone with limited knowledge of São Toméan history (also like myself). There are threads to pick up on to dig deeper into the history. Also hugely helpful are the translator’s note at the beginning and the notes on the poems at the end, by the translator Shook.
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