Category: Abstractions

Good and Angry

Published by Karawynn on 11 October 2022

About a week ago I read the final book in Naomi Novik’s Scholomance trilogy, and found it … far more satisfying than most of the other books I’ve read recently, even ones that are arguably quite good. After some reflection, I decided this was because the narrating character, El, has an emotional range that begins at grumpy and escalates to…

Bottoms Up

Published by Karawynn on 30 July 2020

As the trash fire in my home country rages on, I’ve been thinking about morality. Last week I read a novel set eight years after a flu pandemic killed 70% of the world population. The remaining population, at least in the United States, has concentrated in the cities, with a few scattered rural communities, leaving large areas of the country…