It’s Monday again and my first full week back after the holidays.
I’m going to be trying new this year with my reading and try to read at least one classic a month. This month I’ll be reading something that will make me stay out of the sunshine…
This week I’m going to read an arc that I won off of Goodreads and a classic horror novel.
What are you reading?
Universal Love- Alexander Weinstein
A hypnotic collection of speculative fiction about compassion, love, and human resilience in the technological hyper-age, from Alexander Weinstein, author of Children of the New World.
Universal Love welcomes readers to a near-future world where our everyday technologies have fundamentally altered the possibilities and limits of how we love one another. In these gripping stories, a young boy tries to understand what keeps his father tethered to the drowned city they call home. A daughter gets to know her dead mother’s hologram better than she ever knew her living mother. And, at a time when unpleasant memories can be erased, a man undergoes electronic surgery to have his depression, and his past, forever removed.
In an age when technology offers the easiest cures for loneliness, the characters within these stories must wrestle with what it means to stay human in an increasingly cybernetic future, and how love can endure even the most alluring upgrades.
In the vein of Weinstein’s critically-acclaimed first collection, Universal Love is a visionary book, written with one foot in the real world and one stepping bravely into the future.
Dracula- Bram Stoker
When Jonathan Harker visits Transylvania to help Count Dracula purchase a London house, he makes horrifying discoveries in his client’s castle. Soon afterwards, disturbing incidents unfold in England: an unmanned ship is wrecked; strange puncture marks appear on a young woman’s neck, and a lunatic asylum inmate raves about the imminent arrival of his ‘Master’. In the ensuing battle of wits between the sinister Count and a determined group of adversaries, Bram Stoker created a masterpiece of the horror genre, probing into questions of identity, sanity and the dark corners of Victorian sexuality and desire.
Nice! I just finished two books last night. Currently I’m reading Mooncakes and an ARC of American Dirt, and I just started listening to the audiobook for Little Women (which somehow I’ve never read before?? Even though I love classics and have seen the musical for it??). I’m curious to see how you like Universal Love–it sounds fascinating!
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I’ve heard amazing things about Mooncakes. I’ll have to add that to my list to read because I’ve been seeing that one everywhere.
Little Women is definitely on my classic tbr for this year. I hope it’s just as amazing as the musical.
And I’m about halfway through Universal Love and it’s really good so far.
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OOh pretty covers! I’ve this edition of Dracula myself! Hope you enjoy the reads this week!
Here’s my Monday Wrap-up
Have a GREAT day!
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Thank you!
I hope you enjoy your reads too!!
Have a great day!! 😊😊
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