📚 December Read with Cyn’s Workshop Book Club Pick ✨

Hey there, readers! 👋

Welcome to a brand-new month of reading, and thank you — truly — for continuing to be part of this amazing community. Your passion, comments, and excitement make this book club such a joy to host every single month. 💛

I’m thrilled to announce that the December Read with Cyn’s Workshop Book Club Pick is All That We See or Seem by Ken Liu! 🎉

This atmospheric, philosophical, and emotionally powerful fantasy is sure to give us a lot to talk about — from the nature of memory and identity to the fragile line between dreams and reality.

No matter your reading pace, you’re welcome here. Read with us throughout December, chat in the comments, or simply follow along — every kind of participation counts! 📖✨

Let’s make December an unforgettable month of storytelling — happy reading, bookworms! 🐛💫

Happy reading, and I can’t wait to hear your thoughts all month long! 🖤🔥

All That We See or Seem

by Ken Liu

Award­-winning author Ken Liu returns with his first scifi thriller in a brand-new series following former “orphan hacker” Julia Z as she is thrust into a high-stakes adventure where she must use her AI-whispering skills to unravel a virtual reality mystery, rescue a kidnapped dream artist, and confront the blurred lines between technology, selfhood, and the power of shared dreams.

Julia Z, a young woman who gained notoriety at fourteen as the “orphan hacker,” is trying to live a life of digital obscurity in a quiet Boston suburb.

But when a lawyer named Piers—whose famous artist wife, Elli, has been kidnapped by dangerous criminals—barges into her life, Julia decides to put the solitary life she has painstakingly created at risk as she can’t walk away from helping Piers and Elli, nor step away from the challenge of this digital puzzle.

Elli is an oneirofex, a dream artist, who can weave the dreams of an audience together through a shared virtual landscape, live, in a concert-like experience by tapping into each attendee’s memories and providing an emotionally resonant narrative experience. While these collective dreams are anonymous, Julia discovers that Elli was also dreaming one-on-one with the head of an international criminal enterprise, and he’s demanding the return of his dreams in exchange for Elli.

Unraveling the real and unreal leads Julia on an adventure that takes her across the country and deep into the shadows of her psyche.

Reading Schedule

Reading Dates:

NOVEMBER 30TH – DECEMBER 31ST

NOV 30TH – DEC 6TH

Prologue – Chapter 11

DEC 7TH – DEC 13TH

Chapters 12 – 25

DEC 14TH – DEC 20TH

Chapters 26 – 38

DEC 21ST – DEC27TH

Chapters 39 – End

Chat Dates:

NOVEMBER 30TH – DECEMBER 31ST

DECEMBER 10th

Prologue – Chapter 11

DECEMBER 17TH

Chapters 12 – 25

DECEMBER 24TH

Chapters 26 – 38

DECEMBER 31ST

Chapters 39 – End

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