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Madame Bovary
Gustave Flaubert, Lydia Davis
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse, Hilda Rosner
Civil Disobedience and Other Essays (Collected Essays)
Henry David Thoreau
The Children Star
Joan Slonczewski
Manstealing for Fat Girls
Michelle Embree
Undersong: Chosen Poems Old and New
Audre Lorde
Radio Crackling, Radio Gone
Lisa Olstein
Radiant Days
Elizabeth Hand
Mythmakers and Lawbreakers: Anarchist Writers on Fiction
Margaret Killjoy, Kim Stanley Robinson
Footnotes in Gaza
Joe Sacco

The Sparrow

The Sparrow - Mary Doria Russell The elevator pitch is just funny: "Jesuits in Outer Space!" but this book is actually really interesting and smart. It makes a lot of sense to me to look at what happens to religious seekers when confronted with sentient life on other planets. The novel is more about trauma and recovery than it is about the alien culture, which was somewhat disappointing to me but made sense. I heard there's a sequel, which I'm excited about. So that tells you something.