The author also seems to love firing off tweets in the text. I noticed this with The Terraformers by Annalee Newitz as well. If you're writing speculative fiction - I kindly ask that you remember you're writing a BOOK. You don't need to contain your social commentary to 180 or 250 characters mid-stride. SHOW ME the consequences of what you're upset about, SHOW ME why things are not working right, SHOW ME how they can be better. Here are some examples of the author firing off a tweet:

The building where Wild Massive is set reminds me of the Dark Tower, created by Stephen King and the tower of Babel from the Books of Babel by Josiah Bancroft. Floors contain various worlds, realities, civilizations, species, etc. In the Dark Tower, King said that the tower floors were different levels of reality. Wild Massive isn’t organized at all. The floors of Bancroft’s Babel have differing cultures and various functions. It’s also part attraction for the people in his world. This is similar to Wild Massive’s tower; Moore’s tower shapes reality and contains it. If it can be imagined, it’s probably in the building. Melissa says earning the record title for the largest book published was a great feeling of accomplishment.

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Alcoholics Anonymous. Pass it On The Story of Bill Wilson and How The A.A. Message Reached the World, New York: Alcoholics Anonymous World Services, Inc., 1984. Carissa loves her elevator. Up and down she goes, content with the sometimes chewy food her reality fabricator spits out, as long as it means she doesn’t have to speak to another living person.

Welcome to our comprehensive collection of Early Years Foundation Stage Big Books, specially curated for young learners at the start of their educational journey. These oversized, engaging, and vibrant books are designed to captivate the curiosity of children, making learning an exciting adventure. When we joined together with the Ordinary People Change the World team, our goal was to inspire kids to do something BIG and become a part of history. In light of current professional views of alcoholism, is the Big Book still appropriate in understanding the nature of the alcoholism and/or other addictive behaviours? Vikram Seth’s novel is, at its core, a love story: Lata and her mother, Mrs. Rupa Mehra, are both trying to find—through love or through exacting maternal appraisal—a suitable boy for Lata to marry. Set in the early 1950s, in an India newly independent and struggling through a time of crisis, A Suitable Boytakes us into the richly imagined world of four large extended families and spins a compulsively readable tale of their lives and loves. A sweeping panoramic portrait of a complex, multiethnic society in flux, A Suitable Boyremains the story of ordinary people caught up in a web of love and ambition, humor and sadness, prejudice and reconciliation, the most delicate social etiquette and the most appalling violence.” (Goodreads) The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey NiffeneggerSet in London of the 1660s and of the early twenty-first century, The Weight of Inkis the interwoven tale of two women of remarkable intellect: Ester Velasquez, anemigrant from Amsterdam who is permitted to scribe for a blind rabbi, just before the plague hits the city; and Helen Watt, an ailing historian with a love of Jewish history. Does this text adequately reflect how Alcoholics Anonymous and other self-help groups currently practice? Don't try to have it make sense. It doesn't. If you are looking for hard sci-fi, this is definitely not it. This is over the top science fantasy, that reminds me of Empress of Forever by Max Gladstone. Come here for the exuberance of the storytelling, not for the in-depth explorations of real science.

This month’s most buzzed-about book is City on Fire by Garth Risk Hallberg, and with good cause: The novel, a mystery set in gritty 1970s Manhattan, involves some unforgettable characters (not to mention an unforgettable shearling coat). Anonymous (1976). Alcoholics Anonymous: The Story of How Many Thousands of Men and Women Have Recovered from Alcoholism, 3rd ed. A.A. World Services. ISBN 9780916856182. OCLC 221382036. Thaks a million to Goodreads Giveaways and Tor Publishing for providing me with an Uncorrected ARC of 'Wild Massive', by Scotto Moore, that should be hitting the shelves on February 7th, 2023.*

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I could go on about why I love long books, but I thought a short list would be sufficient (since the long reads are all ahead). Here’s why I love them: The characters were honestly pitch perfect. They aren’t the most growth oriented characters, and while Moore shies away from digging too deep into their interior lives, he makes them feel that they have a stake in their world. While I generally like a little more interior life, Moore invested me fully into almost every character, be it main, side or even bit character. They all felt as if they had lives outside the narrative he was telling, even though in some cases they explicitly did not. The agents were all wonderful, even if they were sociopathic. Carissa and Rindasy had an excellent dynamic as they smashed through the floors of the building. Again, three cheers for the best bit character I have ever read, Agent Pivotal Moment who is perfect in every way, no notes. It also annoyed me that the whole beginning of the book everyone is going on about how fat Carmen is. Not just her mother, everyone and it details that she eats a lot, as in buys a meal on the way home from school, then cooks herself a meal, then has a meal with her mum, then her dad brings her a meal home, then she eats a load of crisps and chocolate. Every single night. However she is still a size ten. i get that the book is talking about body dysmorphia, but as an actual fat person, saying that people who eat that much and that 'fat' is size ten is ridiculous and aggravating and damaging to people who actually have dysmorphia who are reading this book.