Trigger warning for Canadians and #metoo
essay 2 is Jian G
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Essay 3? (about a high risk pregnancy - she is in a support group with other women who are struggling with hospital food)
“Before she can be shut down again the woman screams out crucial information, as though she is being dragged away from us to be jailed: ‘EXTENSION 225! JUST CALL DOWN! THEY WILL HELP YOU GET EXTRA CHEESE SQUARES!’ The facilitator takes a deep, calming breath and asks how we are all doing.”
that comma between deep and calming, such a precise choice.
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I just finished it yesterday.
Essay 1: I saw her perform in Alice through the Looking Glass in Stratford. I was 14, and my grandparents took my cousin and I as our Christmas gift? or birthday gift? that year.
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I remember watching the play and waiting for ‘the good part,’ which never happened. It was flat. I was 14, and I knew that it was - not done well. But honestly, until I read this, I thought I was being an overly critical 14 year old.
My grandmother even commented that she did not care for her voice.
When she was saying that she was adding a vowel to the end of each word in the play - yeah. I think that was what I saw.
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so interesting to get a different lens on something you experienced directly.
Tell me about Martha Wells
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I am obsessed with Murderbot. Love it so much. Those books do a better job than anything I’ve read of imagining a nonhuman intelligence.
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OH that’s murder bot!
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I also really like her first book (Death of the Necromancer, which is a 2ndary fantasy Victorian world which was published before steampunk became a thing) and Wheel of the Infinite, which has a wonderful older female protagonist who has made some choices that nobody else in her world can forgive her for and which the publisher couldn’t figure out how to push.
Murderbot is obviously wonderful, but Wells has a backlog of really great work.
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Thank you, I just finished my last book and snagged Martha Well’s Witch King.
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I’ve been reading Sheri Tepper lately, from a random recommendation by the Libby website. She was born in Colorado in 1929 and didn’t start writing until she was in her 50s, but she’s got like 30 full length novels.
I definitely have to pay attention when I read her books, as they’re very wordy (in a good way), and I’m really enjoying them. They’re a good sci-fi/fantasy mix (magic/old style steal-your-baby type fae fantasy, not smutty fae 
) with female protagonists and a lot of social/political commentary.
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Grass doesn’t get enough credit for what it was doing, and I should probably reread
I don’t think I could revisit Gate To Woman’s Country again for a while.
Really liked Plague of Angels.
She also has a series of mysteries under the names B. J. Oliphant and A. J. Orde
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Loved it, one of my favorites, may never reread.
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I haven’t read Gate to Women’s Country yet. I’ve been working my way down the random order on Libby. So far I’ve read Grass, The Companions, The Fresco, The Margarets, The Visitor, and Beauty.
I do not have a favorite yet, and as I’m reading them one after another, I’m sure I’ll have trouble remembering which book is which in the future.
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