Finished reading: The Gunslinger (Revised Edition): The Dark Tower I by Stephen King 📚

Finished reading: Still Life: A Chief Inspector Gamache Novel by Louise Penny 📚

Turned onto this by a Vox article the other day and it did not disappoint. Looking forward to more in the series.

Finished reading: Dead Astronauts: A Novel (Borne) by Jeff VanderMeer 📚

Finished reading: Aurora by Kim Stanley Robinson 📚

Felt like a little bit of a slog through some of the (long) middle section, but the end was poignant, fitting. ⭐⭐⭐⭐

📚: The MVP Machine by Ben Lindbergh & Travis Sawchik

📚: Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips

If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that exists for you alone. You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country.

From “In the Dark: Science Fiction in Small Towns"

If you’ve ever been seventeen, and especially if you’ve ever been seventeen in a small town, you’ve had your own year of dark nights. But when your are seventeen, and especially when you are seventeen in a small town, you believe there is opening before you a mysterious and uncharted realm that exists for you alone. You and your friends are conspirators in a shadow country.

From “In the Dark: Science Fiction in Small Towns" in the wonderful Impossible Owls collection by Brian Phillips.

📚: Tipping Point: How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference by Malcolm Gladwell

📚: The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut

Sparked by the Westworld tie-in. Curious to see how it ties together.

📚 recommendation: The Southern Reach trilogy by Jeff Vandermeer. So weird and so good. Looking forward to seeing the film version of Annihilation.