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This unconventional sci-fi love story was just what we needed this winter.

We’ve got some ambitious tbr lists lined up for March. Once again we’re focused more on fantasy, which just feels like the perfect genre to read right now.

“She sees how she, Agnes, must remain calm, steady, must make herself bigger in a way, to keep the house on an even keel, not to allow it to be taken over by this darkness, to square up to it, to shield Susanna from it, to seal off her own cracks, not to let it in.” ~ Maggie O’Farrell

“You’re shaking,” he said.

What I enjoyed most about this book was the incomprehensibly massive scale. We get to watch a planet of spiders evolve over millennia, from the stone age to space travel. We see a scientist go from the head of a terraforming uplift project to a veritable deity. Through the eyes of one classicist and linguist, we watch several generations of the last humans in the universe on a long-voyage ship. While these ideas aren’t entirely new to sci-fi, they made me feel an aching loneliness and terror as I put myself into the miserable lives of these desperate humans—and desperate spiders.

“The peculiarity of being a writer is that the entire enterprise involves the mortal humiliation of seeing one’s own words in print.” ~ Joan Didion

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