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It's Samhain and Danielle and her friends are laying low in the wilderness of Idaho, …
I cried a little,,
Short stories don't normally move me that much, but three for three these were touching, and the final story is really really moving.
Margaret Killjoy’s Danielle Cain series is a dropkick-in-the-mouth anarcho-punk fantasy that pits traveling anarchist Danielle …
Mwah mwah mwah!! Keeps the energy from The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion going without faltering! Go read TLWStL right now, then read this if you like it!
In the gripping first novel in the Daughters of the Empty Throne trilogy, author Margaret …
Not as heart pounding as Gearbreakers nor as tearjerking as Pet, but still a really good YA novel! The world building and magic system are both excellent, and it's got Margaret Killjoy's signature commentaries on power, in a new light for its new form.
I'd recommend for anyone into YA fantasy, though probably not more broadly than that.
Updated with a new introduction from Robin Wall Kimmerer, the special edition of Braiding Sweetgrass, …
This is one of those books that's been hugely influential on modern leftist discourse, and you'll probably recognize a lot of its tenets if you read it. I think it's best treated as a 101 on reciprocity, the gift economy, animism, and indigenous worldviews.
If you do read this book, I strongly recommend AGAINST trying to read it cover-to-cover. Pick a couple chapters you think are interesting and read them. Read something else. If you liked it the first time around, come back and read a few more chapters.
A couple of chapters I liked: - Learning the Grammar of Animacy ― A really cool look on the embeding of animist worldviews into indigenous language - The Consolation of Water Lilies ― A little philosophically boring, but a very cool plant metaphor - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass ― An excellent anecdote exploring the importance of braiding new worldviews …
This is one of those books that's been hugely influential on modern leftist discourse, and you'll probably recognize a lot of its tenets if you read it. I think it's best treated as a 101 on reciprocity, the gift economy, animism, and indigenous worldviews.
If you do read this book, I strongly recommend AGAINST trying to read it cover-to-cover. Pick a couple chapters you think are interesting and read them. Read something else. If you liked it the first time around, come back and read a few more chapters.
A couple of chapters I liked: - Learning the Grammar of Animacy ― A really cool look on the embeding of animist worldviews into indigenous language - The Consolation of Water Lilies ― A little philosophically boring, but a very cool plant metaphor - Mishkos Kenomagwen: The Teachings of Grass ― An excellent anecdote exploring the importance of braiding new worldviews and ways of knowing into science. Also an excellent primer on Kimmerer's philosophies of reciprocity - The Sacred and the Superfund ― Philosophies of relationship to land
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow of …
What it says on the tin, an angsty lesbian slow burn enemies to lovers mech story. The addition of the titular gearbreakers is definitely a really cool twist, and shines at a couple of different points, though it has the side effect of turning some of the mech combat to human-scale combat with nameless "guards" set inside the mech.
Still, it has some excellent action sequences, and it was engaging enough that I stayed up late to keep reading more chapters.
I might recommend it if you're into mech yuri, but keep in mind that it's meant for teen audiences, with all the tropes and caveats that come with that, including so much angst. A side effect of this that I appreciated is that it's a romance story that doesn't use the language of sex to communicate beats in the relationship, which can sometimes be hard to find.
We went past praying to deities and started to build them instead...
The shadow of …
@sashanoraa that sounds cool as fuck. straight to the reading list
Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian …
This was good!! The kind of punk that's clearly grounded in lived experiences, made just magical enough to be able to discuss themes of power in a very cool way! It's a very short book, but engaging and worth it the whole way through.
Recommended for the other anarchist and punk organizers and activists in my life
Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian …
Got this physical as a gift! Excited to read it!
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic nature, discourages or prevents people …
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic …
Oh it's so good. Just as mind bending as it ever was. Some of the rougher edges have been sanded off, and the earlier chapters are simplified a bit to ease readers unfamiliar with SCP into the world a bit. The second half of the book has seen the most work, and in a direction that I believe improves considerably on its earlier work.
Fans of SCP may still enjoy reading the original, but I'm delighted to have something that won't be incomprehensible to other audiences, and I don't think it lost any of its genius in the process.
STRONGLY recommend to anyone who enjoys weird sci-fi and mind-bending concepts and wants fiction that realigns how you look at the world for the rest of your life.
An antimeme is an idea with self-censoring properties ; an idea which, by its intrinsic …
Read this in its online SCP Tale form, and pre-ordered the print edition! The online version ranked as my favorite book for a long time, and I'm looking forward to seeing how it's been adapted!
Eleven unique short stories that stretch from a rural Canadian Mennonite town to a hipster …
Plett's writing style doesn't really jive with me, and unfortunately I struggle to engage with short stories. Overall, I had some difficulty getting through this book, and I didn't enjoy it very much. Several stories just felt a little flat, and I often struggled to connect with the characters.
That said, I enjoyed both "Twenty Hot Tips to Shopping Success", a small fake-tutorial about the experience of buying clothes when newly experimenting with gender, and "Portland, Oregon", a short story about a girl trying to care for a cat as a metaphor for taking care of yourself when the outside world is often uncompromising.
Everyone around Iris Kelly is in love.
And she's happy for all of them, truly. …
Okay so apparently this book is the third in a series, and I only figured that out when I literally turned to the Acknowledgements page after finishing the entire book. A couple of the side characters which appear in this novel are coupled up in previous entries in the series, and I suppose that would make the whole thing a bit more impactful. BUT I still enjoyed it.
The cozy-queer small-business-owner-core vibes can be a little overwhelming, and the main character's anxiety feels a little cliche. The fake dating trope falls a little flat — to the point that I think it could be removed entirely and the core of the novel would be unchanged.
But all that said, it's still very cute, and I enjoyed it, despite not really being a regular romance reader. I probably won't be recommending it to people, but that doesn't mean I didn't have …
Okay so apparently this book is the third in a series, and I only figured that out when I literally turned to the Acknowledgements page after finishing the entire book. A couple of the side characters which appear in this novel are coupled up in previous entries in the series, and I suppose that would make the whole thing a bit more impactful. BUT I still enjoyed it.
The cozy-queer small-business-owner-core vibes can be a little overwhelming, and the main character's anxiety feels a little cliche. The fake dating trope falls a little flat — to the point that I think it could be removed entirely and the core of the novel would be unchanged.
But all that said, it's still very cute, and I enjoyed it, despite not really being a regular romance reader. I probably won't be recommending it to people, but that doesn't mean I didn't have fun with it.
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all …
Dark and earthy with notes of spilled blood. The opposite of Christian fiction
The Woods All Black is equal parts historical horror, trans romance, and blood-soaked revenge, all …
This one was originally much further down the list but I spotted it at the library so I had to read it :p