Tungsten Hippo

Short eBook enthusiast. New book recommendation every Wednesday. New quote every Friday. Other book-related posts as the fancy strikes.

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I have some news that is both exciting and a little sad: I am going to stop posting new content to Tungsten Hippo. The website will remain up, with the archives intact.

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Working on one thing at a time, for as long as you need to or feel like it, is a luxury.

Sydney Phlox, in Academaze

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Today's book pick is a short and inventive retelling of the story of Penelope, Daughter of Necessity, by Marie Brennan

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Hatred turns to pity turns to exhaustion. No one has the energy to fight forever.

JY Yang, in Waiting on a Bright Moon

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Today's book is the latest Annorlunda Books release, The Burning, a novella about family and resilience by J.P. Seewald.

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Even now, decades after history says the wars ended, people wake every day to face anew this challenge: to have found out what they were capable of when all they loved was at stake, and to go on living afterward.

Corinne Purtill, in Ghosts in the Forest

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This week's recommendation is The Dispatcher, by John Scalzi, a well-executed and enjoyable detective story set in a strange, but strangely believable, near future.

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No truth we can utter is ever a complete truth.

Vandana Singh, in Distances

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This week's book pick is a really fun sci fi short story with some of the best aliens I've ever come across in writing: The Fermi Paradox is Our Business Model, by Charlie Jane Anders.

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We live close together, and we live far apart. We all go through the same things—it's all just a a different kind of the same thing!

Susan Glaspell, in A Jury of Her Peers, in Hemmed In

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This week’s book is Wildcat, which shows us Sara Paretsky’s great detective V.I. Warshawski as a 10 year old girl.

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Time for a Book Introduction guest post! Today, Sonya Watson introduces her collection of short stories, Family Matters. Family Mattersby Sonya Watson

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Reason runs out, and we reach beyond it, toward the blur at the edge of the map.

Nora Gallagher, in Accompany Me

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Today’s book recommendation is The Promise of the Sky, a novelette by Jyoti Guptara about a young boy in rural India who tries to break free from the boundaries imposed by his caste.

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You can never be sufficiently yourself.

Stefan Weidner, In the Greece of the East

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Today's pick is Oh, Never Mind, a funny collection of linked essays by Mary H.K. Choi 

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Life is a struggle for anyone who is paying attention.

Jonathan Biss, in Coda