Arkady Martine extends her themes and her world with another many-layered novel exploring communication, conflict and the overpowering importance of having the right context.

Thankfully this one’s easy: I adored A Desolation Called Peace as a thoroughly satisfying sequel to my favourite 2019 space opera A Memory Called Empire. I’ll hold one back for the next prompt, but no way am I playing favourites between the other 5, I’m just creating arbitrary mini-categories: 2021 is shaping up to be excellent: I’ve rated over half my reads as 4 stars or higher, and a whopping 6 have achieved 5 stars (by comparison, I only awarded 5 stars to 8 books last year – and 4 of those were rereads). Best Book You’ve Read So Far This YearĪnd I thought this was a tough question last year. It’s easy to miss when it comes to words that have become ingrained in our slang, but that doesn’t mean using them doesn’t cause unintentional harm. This tag was created by ReadLikeWildfire and Earl Grey Books, but I won’t be using their name for it from now on as it uses ableist terminology. Let’s take a look…īefore I get started, a quick note on names. Well hello midsummer, good to see you! The end of June means it’s time to look back at this year’s reading and see how 2021 is shaping up – and this year’s check in will be harder than ever, because it’s been quite a year of books already.

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