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The best book of the the year for me.
Made me cry a few times. I love Richard Powers. Themes of human and animal consciousness, peril and possibilities of AI, protecting culture, friendship and betrayal, and beauty of the ocean. Will be thinking on this one for days. As a kid who grew up near the ocean and would have been a marine biologist had I been better at math, this novel really resonated with me.

I can't believe it's almost time for the November #BookSpin draw! Because I've arranged spreadsheet that I pull the list from by page number I have four new books on the list for this month. They include the tagged, Annie Bot, Dead Silence, and Buffalo Hunter Hunter. I'm excited to see what the numbers are!

@AardvarkBookClub delivers again. I was hoping for the tagged book. The other‘s an unexpected surprise that I had not heard of, but am excited for. It‘s perhaps a slasher version of Thursday Murder Club? If so, I‘m all in! Just in time for spooky season. I‘m going to have to change up my #bookspin post.☺️
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What did you all get?

Not really sure how much snoozier this can get so I‘m out.

The Deluge is a climate fiction novel that spans from 2013 to the 2040s. It weaves together the lives of several interconnected individuals, each grappling with the escalating impacts of climate change. Markley presents a hyper-realistic portrait of a world ravaged by superstorms, wildfires, and social upheaval through a diverse cast, including scientists, activists, terrorists, and ordinary people.

Full Review abookandadog.com/blog/the-deluge

To be fair to the author, I really am not in the mood for dystopians these days, but I read it for a book club. I had trouble concentrating on it, and I did not connect with the main character. I thought she was pretentious and a martyr. This book seemed really slow and without much plot. The best part was Mauro, the little boy. He had a syndrome, which made him unable to feel full after eating, and everyone kept discounting him because of it.

Camille giving me a high five because, after getting my elder kid and my spouse to read Playground and discuss it with me and then attending a book club about it, I have a new appreciation for what Powers is doing in this novel. I want to re-read it now that my context has evolved so I can see what else I see in it.

4.75⭐️ I really enjoyed this book again, but not as much as I did the first two times . I read it when I was going through a difficult patch and so it didn‘t hit in the same way. It still was a very good read. #2025 #reread #bookclub #canadian #fiction #clifi #historical #contemporary #familysaga

(2025) In a future climate apocalypse, Minor lives with her family and friends in a flooded Manhattan, on the roof of the Museum of Natural History. But when a superstorm forces them inland, they have to face the usual dangers of traveling a postapocalyptic dystopia. It's fine: the writing is lovely but the territory is familiar and the resolution is implausibly optimistic.

I use the #BookSpin list for titles from a long-term, ten-year plan challenge I'm doing. This month I had to kind of re-strategize the list because I'm running out of physical books to use and am having to switch to more digital titles. New to the list this month are three titles: the tagged, The Promise of Blood, and You Sexy Thing. I'm also still working on my backlog of this year's previous draws.