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“A fascinating take on the rise of AI and our potential future relationship to it. With facial recognition completely pervasive and necessary for everything from purchasing a piece of gum to accessing buildings, semi-anthropomorphic AI robots assist and guard everything. Taking this as the baseline, Helen Phillips doesn't dwell on this aspect of her story, instead deciding to focus on May, a mother, wife, and recently unemployed, who decides that in order to bring in a little extra money to...”

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“I’m envious of those who caught this live on the stage. That being said: stage, print, or audio, Stephen Fry does not disappoint with his juicy retellings of Greek Gods and legends. Ever the scholar and entertainer, expect well curated family trees and etymological asides amongst the beautifully illustrated text, the boisterous audio, or both. No matter what format you choose, you have chosen wisely; your understanding of nature and language will be forever sprinkled with a touch of mythos...”

Roxanne • Odyssey Bookshop

“How does a Taurus text with another earth sign? With a fire sign? If Aquarius was a city, what would it be? How would you define a Gemini’s signature style? And more importantly, what zoadiac-kin poet has been chosen to represent the thesis for your sign? For those of you already familiar with Alex Dimitrov and Dorothea Lasky, known as the Astro Poets on Twitter and now on their own podcast, these approaches to explaining signature zodiac traits will not be new to you, but you will be...”

Roxanne • Odyssey Bookshop

“Bold, uncompromising, and audacious, Miranda July confronts what it means to be a person with a uterus coming into middle age and struggling to understand not only the hormone changes that arrive in that nebulous time of aging, but also the spiral of self-doubt and emergence of depressions. An Eat, Pray, Love for the Gen Y crowd. July's narrator is at times infuriating, insightful, magical, and awash in an orgasmic glow. Both passionately exacting and frustratingly obtuse, she mimics life in...”

Roxanne • Odyssey Bookshop

“It is rare to find a book that is a retelling of a known story and wholly original, but Percival Everett is able to do that with James. By shifting the narrator from Huckleberry Finn to James (known previously only as 'Jim') Everett doesn't only refocus the point of view of the events, but he is able to refocus the reader's attention away from the childhood adventure games to a story that is about the dire straights of a runaway enslaved individual. Simply by fleeing for his safety, James has...”

Roxanne • Odyssey Bookshop

“A fascinating work of auto fiction that calls to mind the genre-bending work of Annie Ernaux. Instead of focusing on the minutiae of a relationship, however, DeForest examines how we, as humans, face and live with death and dying. Ostensibly a year in the life of a palliative care doctor, the unnamed narrator weaves together regrets from her own past with those of her patients, experiences of humaneness in the face of the terror of Covid, finding the simple joys and essential horrors that...”

Roxanne • Odyssey Bookshop