Jennifer WalkerJan 5, 20221 min readMy 2021 Reading ListI didn't quite make it to 52 books in the year, which feels like the gold standard for those of us who keep track of what we've read in a...
Jennifer WalkerMay 27, 20211 min readParable of the Sower, by Octavia ButlerI'm not sure what I expected when I picked this up but it wasn't quite this. This is the story of a young woman from the near future who...
Jennifer WalkerMay 12, 20213 min readZ is for Zachariah, by Robert C. O'brienI don't often throw books across the room when I'm finished with them - I love books! - but this one went skidding across the carpet as...
Jennifer WalkerApr 20, 20211 min readThe Death of Grass, by John ChristopherOriginally published in 1956, The Death of Grass remains a relevant and insightful page-turner; having read this in early 2021, with...
Jennifer WalkerApr 15, 20212 min readDies the Fire, by SM StirlingDies the Fire was published in 2004 but feels like novels written 20 or even 30 years earlier. Set in the late 1990s, it feels more like...
Jennifer WalkerApr 8, 20211 min readThe Calculating Stars, by Mary Robinette KowalThe story opens in the early 1950s with a meteorite crashing into and obliterating Washington DC and much of the eastern seaboard....