“A Day of Fallen Night”
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Fiction: “A Day of Fallen Night” by Samantha Shannon
Tunuva Melim is a sister of the Priory. For 50 years, she has trained to slay wyrms—but none have appeared since the Nameless One, and the younger generation is starting to question the Priory’s purpose.
Nonfiction: “Saving Time: Discovering a Life Beyond the Clock” by Jenny Odell
Daily experience, dominated by the corporate clock that so many of us contort ourselves to fit inside, is destroying us. It wasn’t built for people, it was built for profit. This is a book that tears open the seams of reality as we know it– the way we experience time itself– and rearranges it, reimagining a world not centered around work, the office clock, or the profit motive. The author offers new models to live by– inspired by pre-industrial cultures, ecological, and geological time– that make a more humane, more hopeful way of living seem possible.
Youth: “Starfish” by Lisa Fipps
Bullied and shamed her whole life for being fat, 12-year-old Ellie finally gains the confidence to stand up for herself, with the help of some wonderful new allies.
