Posts tagged Matt Ruff
Kill The Cop On Your Bookshelf: Recommendations for Unbureaucratic Fiction
Kill The Cop On Your Bookshelf: Recommendations for Unbureaucratic Fiction

Edgar and I are traveling, and so we’ve prepared these posts in advance. Right now, I want to share with you something that isn’t quite a genre but which are unified by a particular set of qualities. Maybe that’s what a genre really is. I don’t have a good name for them, so I’m going to describe this as “unbureaucratic” fiction.

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Book Lists, Written by: CameronCameron Summersunbureaucratic fiction, It, Stephen King, Lovecraft Country, The Destroyer of Worlds, Matt Ruff, Max Gladstone, Last Exit, The Blade Between, Sam J. Miller, The Night Will Find Us, Matthew Lyons, John Dies at the End, Jason Pargin/David Wong, No Gods No Monsters, Cadwell Turnbull, The Hollow Places, T. Kingfisher, Vurt, Jeff NoonComment
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023
Cameron's Book Round-Up: Late April, Early May 2023

Included in here is a wider variety of books than I normally read, because we have two novels that I read for the literature class I taught this past semester. Teaching literature is really different from teaching composition, and while I’d gladly do both going forward, I definitely need more practice as a literature teacher.

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Written by: Cameron, Book reviewsCameron SummersHav, Jan Morris, Three Parts Dead, Max Gladstone, Pedro Páramo, Juan Rulfo, The Traitor Baru Cormorant, Seth Dickinson, The Destroyer of Worlds, Matt Ruff, R.F. Kuang, Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, The Shining, Stephen King, Leech, Hiron Ennes, Binti, Nnedi Okorafor, The Dead Zone, We Won't Be Here Tomorrow, Margaret Killjoy, The Good House, Tananarive DueComment
Cameron's Book Reviews: 2022, part 2.
Cameron's Book Reviews: 2022, part 2.

I read quite a few books the past few months, and they were almost all quite good. That being said, it’s almost time for finals, so pardon me for being brusque or brief. Title links go to Bookshop.org.

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Book reviews, Written by: CameronCameron SummersKikuko Tsumura, There's No Such Thing as an Easy Job, Sayaka Murata, Convenience Store Woman, Steven Shaviro, No Speed Limit, Hiroki Azuma, Otaku: Japan's Database Animals, Ryka Aoki, The Light From Uncommon Stars, Matt Ruff, Lovecraft Country, Daryl Gregory, Revelator, Stephen Graham Jones, The Only Good Indians, Beautiful Fighting Girl, Saito Tamaki, Nothing But Blackened Teeth, Cassandra Khaw, John Perkins, Confessions of an Economic Hit Man, Seanan McGuire, Every Heart a DoorwayComment