The Fiction Addiction

Beers Books is such a cool bookstore. The selection is incredibly expansive. It’s hard not to spend hours here and especially incredibly difficult to not spend too much money here 🥲

Elizabeth Bennet fanart in an art nouveau style - watercolour and ink

We Have Always Been Here

We Have Always Been Here, by Lena Nguyen, is a thoughtful scifi mystery about a colonization ship on a planet where nothing is what it seems on the surface. In this future world of android workers and space colonization, the hardest aspect to accept is that anyone in the galaxy hired Grace Park as a psychologist. Park doesn’t really connect with or understand other people, so she mostly keeps the…

The Guardians, a YA scifi novel by John Christopher, was published in 1970 and set in the year 2052. In this 2052, England is sharply divided between the Conurbs and the County. The Conurbs are packed with people, and being part of the group is key to Courb identity. They go together to violent sports games, to Carnivals and to packed beaches, and sure, sometimes a riot breaks out, especially…

I almost didn't stop by the Little Free Library because I didn't have the energy, but thank goodness I did because it was empty!

The Kind Worth Killing / Crooked House

I really enjoyed Peter Swanson’s mystery thriller All The Beautiful Lies, and one of my favorite parts was when bookseller Bill recommends The Secret History, before dying in an “accident” that’s oddly similar to the “accident” in the novel. The Kind Worth Killing is another Swanson thriller with classic mysteries as foreshadowing.   There’s a moment when Lily is reading the Agatha Christie…

A good morning for my mail box.

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The Chrysalids, by John Wyndham, is a 1955 science fiction novel set in a post-apocalyptic world. Some unexplained worldwide nuclear event, called the Tribulation, has led to mass deaths and mutations in plant and animal life, with a small human settlement trying to eke out an existence in a hostile environment. The book is from the 1950s, so naturally a nuclear disaster is the enemy. It’s never…

"The Day of the Triffids" by John Wyndham

Thank you @kaseysbookhoard for the recommendation! ❤️

QOTD: What's your favorite sci-fi? What's the coolest old/indie/strange sci-fi you've read?

The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first Hercule Poirot novel. When this novel opens, he’s already a retired detective, with no idea he’s about to become an enduring character in a long, beloved mystery series.  It’s not actually necessary to read The Mysterious Affair at Styles first, though, because each mystery is a complete story, and because even this first one begins with Poirot’s…