Happy Friday, shipmates! It’s Alex, and here’s another double helping of new releases for this first week of March. I’m going to keep this short because honestly…it’s been a kind of crappy week and I don’t have a whole lot to say. I hope things have been going much better for everyone else. Stay safe out there, space pirates, and give someone you love a hug! I’ll see you on Tuesday.
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Let’s make the world a better place, together. Here’s somewhere to start: NDN Collective and Jane’s Due Process.
Bookish Goods
Groundhog Day Mug by BWTclothing
There’s a Groundhog Day-esque book on the list, and it’s technically a speculative movie, so here’s a fun mug for it! $8
New Releases
Hospital by Han Song, translated by Michael Berry
Yang Wei arrives in C City expecting a normal work trip…but when a complimentary bottle of water from the hotel causes him horrific stomach pain and renders him unconscious for three days, he finds himself trapped in a labyrinthine hospital system where there is no diagnosis, but there are a lot of secrets being kept from all of the patients.
Maybe Next Time by Cesca Major
Emma rushes out the door on an ordinary Monday, so distracted by the demands of her job and social obligations that she doesn’t notice the distress of her own family. That night, she fights with her husband and realizes too late that she’s forgotten their anniversary — just in time for him to walk out of the house with their dog and be hit by a car. The next day when she wakes up, her husband is alive…and it’s Monday again. And again. And again. Until she figures out how to right all of their lives.
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Riot Recommendations: Revenge of the New Releases
As promised, here a few more new releases because so many are coming out this week!
The Foxglove King by Hannah Whitten
Lore has the magic power known as Mortem, one that governs death, and it makes her a hot and quite illegal commodity in the city of Dellaire, where she’s been hiding from a cult for the last ten years. When her power is accidentally revealed, she’s taken by the warrior monks called the Presque Mort, the only ones allowed to use Mortem as instruments of the Sainted King. And they have a job for her: entire villages on the outskirts of the kingdom have been dying, at random, and she needs to find out who is responsible — or die.
The Transcendent by Nadia Afifi
Amira Valdez is on the run, pregnant with her own clone, and desperate to escape the fundamentalist Trinity Compound. Her only hope is to find the first human clone, Nova, and figure out how to preserve human consciousness after death.
See you, space pirates. If you’d like to know more about my secret plans to dominate the seas and skies, you can catch me over at my personal site.