What adaptation is that? The original text has quite a bit to say about gender and sexuality on Gethen...

Ooh, or reading Kafka on the Shore while on the stairmaster at the gym one evening. Sweating buckets and sobbing. Or, reading Lolita on a plane and talking about it for an hour with the elderly prof next to me who could barely hear but had THOUGHTS.

Was reading a critical edition of MacBeth at an dive bar and tough guy sat next to me and asked what I was reading. Said MacBeth. He heard Big Book and kept asking me about Big Book for a few minutes before I laughed a lil too hard.

I can't recommend it enough. It's so good and unsettling. She completely reframes an overwrought genre.

Fledgling - Octavia Butler. Vampires...but not like you've read before.