Jul 26, 2024
We may not be winning the SEO battle, but we're reading some
cool books this summer, including the latest from Laura Dave, who
has a standard cover treatment for a reason. People are looking for
the next one! Then it's on to ultra-feminist badass
Kathleen Hanna (Carrie Brownstein was in Sleater-Kinney, sorry Sam
couldn't remember), whose "Riot Girl" is a must read for music fans
and feminists alike. Kurt Cobain stories! Next up is a
"speculative" novel "Hum," by Helen Phillips, which pulls a
switcheroo on you, opening with some future tech, but finishing
with a story that's just an exploration of the family unit, aka a
"mom novel." It'll make you rush back to the first page when you
hit the end.
You know exactly what happens at the end of "Big Time," by Ben
Winters, which might not be as good as "Golden State," but is still
a tidy little piece of near-future science fiction (what we now
apparently call "speculative fiction"). And then we finish up with
"The Wedding People," which would never happen in real life, but
that's why we read fiction, right?