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Lakelore meets “Orpheus and Eurydice” when two Miami teens travel to the underworld to retrieve their girlfriend’s soul.
Andres Santos …
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …
The slow drip of dread becomes a tsunami of terror by the last few chapters. Sarah Gailey's writing of a character who is monstrous, aware of her monstrosity, and simultaneously trying to defend herself against even greater monsters all around her is fantastic.
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there in the open, right there …
I’m embarrassed, still, by how long it took me to notice. Everything was right there …
Excellent, spare, spooky storytelling
Interesting that I just finished reading "1917" by Arthur Herman, and then started this book, which opens by setting the scene in London, 1917, at the ceremony for the signing of the Balfour declaration. Something that didn't make it into Herman's book (not that I'm complaining, he covered a lot of ground).
Woodrow Wilson was an absolute wanker and sick old men should not be presidents.
Just relentlessly violent and depressing. I didn't finish it. There's probably a teenager who found this series and it was everything they needed. That teenager has a really rough life.
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
big cliffhanger ending
No logré engancharme. Tal vez es que la realidad de la guerra es demasiado punzante …
Back in the YA section. I was taking a break, but if you're really into genre fiction (like I am in SF), it's almost unavoidable.
Anyway, the writing is good. Descriptive, blunt, to the point. I'm enjoying it so far. Giant robots FTW! Can't wait for the sapphic romance to take off.
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Tomoko is no stranger to change. With two boys in high school and a husband …
A+ touching manga
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All About Love: New Visions is a book by bell hooks published in 2000 that …
At a fun party, mostly of educated, well-paid professionals, a multi-racial, multigenerational evening, the subject of disciplining kids by hitting was raised… As one man bragged about the aggressive beatings he had received from his mother, sharing that “they had been good for him,” I interrupted and suggested that he might not be the misogynist woman-hater he is today if he had not been brutally beaten by a woman as a child.
— All About Love by bell hooks
Imagine not only getting owned this badly at a party, but also having it recorded in a bestselling book
Content warning Spoiler for Russian Civil War
@AlexanderVI@stranger.social lol @ "spoiler for the Russian Civil War"
I don't know. It purports to be all about 1917 but reviews have mentioned that its scope is obviously larger than that. I just started.
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Content warning Spoiler for Russian Civil War
@SallyStrange interesting - does it go as far as the bit where we all invaded Russia to try to put down the Red Army, or is it just about 1917?
It's an audiobook (I basically don't read paper books anymore) and the narrator, Stephen Rudnicki, is the same guy who often reads Samuel R. Delany books. This creates an interesting effect...
