If you’ve not heard of the ‘manosphere’, I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. The manosphere is a loosely linked number of online communities devoted to hating women. These include incels, pick-up artists, trolls, MGTOWs, and a legion of other types of extreme misogynists. If these sound like gibberish to you, I can recommend Laura Bates’s Men Who Hate Women, a fearless exposé of these online hate communities and the real-life harm they perpetuate.
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China Miéville is one of the most interesting writers working today. He is highly imaginative, politically engaged, and possesses a breadth of knowledge on art and literature that he draws on in his work. The Last Days of New Paris is a novella about art, and its power against totalitarianism. It packs a great deal into its short length, and showcases all of what Miéville does best.
2022 was a particularly varied year in reading for me. It ranged from sci-fi to crime to Victorian Gothic, taking in romance, poetry, historical fiction, short stories, and fantasy along the way. I read 80 books in total, surpassing my goal of 75, including 29 authors I’d never read before. There were many books I wanted to include on my top 10 that didn’t make the cut, so here are my honourable mentions: City of Saints and Madmen, The Neverending Story, Children of Dune, The Silence of the Lambs, Sisyphean, Under the Pendulum Sun, Echopraxia, The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon, The Brief and Frightening Reign of Phil, The Emperor’s Babe, and Treacle Walker. All of these are as deserving of the top slots as the ones I chose, and only lost out by fine delineation. Without further ado, here – in reverse order – are my top 10 books of 2022 (with my previous reviews linked):
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