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Sally Strange

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Interests: climate, science, sci-fi, fantasy, LGBTQIA+, history, anarchism, anti-racism, labor politics

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Kaliane Bradley: The Ministry of Time (Hardcover, 2024, Simon & Schuster) 4 stars

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and …

A page turner about structural power relations

5 stars

I read the "The ministry of time" by Kaliane Bradley in a few nights, I simply  couldn't put it down. A gripping story of time travel as much as a thoughtful reflection on structural power.  I adored how she elegantly broaches the subjects of colonialism, racism and sexism simply through who her characters are. The structural power relations between them drive the story as much as the romantic angle (which was also very neatly done, btw).

Peng Shepherd: The Cartographers (Hardcover, 2021, William Morrow & Company, William Morrow) 3 stars

What is the purpose of a map?

Nell Young’s whole life and greatest passion is …

At the beginning of the audiobook, there's an announcement that you can view the maps mentioned in the text by going to the author's page at the Harper Collins website, but the download doesn't seem to be working: www.harpercollins.com/pages/thecartographers

Fortunately, there's an e-book sample that let me view at least a small version of the NYS map.

Still, it would be cool to get a better look at it. Maybe I should email them.

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Kristen Rogheh Ghodsee: Everyday Utopia (Hardcover, 2023, Simon & Schuster) 5 stars

Throughout history and around the world today, forward-thinking communities have pioneered alternative ways of living …

One of the best non fiction of recent years

5 stars

( em português → sol2070.in/2025/02/livro-everyday-utopia-kristen-ghodsee/ )

In “Everyday Utopia” (2024, 352 pages), the north-american feminist anthropologist Kristen R. Ghodsee explores utopian ways of organizing family, relationships, and property in various intentional alternative communities, both historical and still existing today. Definitely one of the most interesting non-fiction books I’ve picked up in recent years.

The book analyzes everything from contemporary initiatives for shared housing and household items to reduce costs and foster support networks, to religious communities where everything is collective, as well as the political, cultural, and biological origins of both dominant and alternative family models, among many other topics.

For example, we commonly imagine the traditional family as something natural rather than as a structure with origins that are less biological and more cultural. The author discusses the Mosuo, a Tibetan community where authority is centered around grandmothers, and women own and inherit property through the maternal lineage. Relationships …

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quoted The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson (The Space Between Worlds, #1)

Micaiah Johnson: The Space Between Worlds (Paperback, 2020, Hodder & Stoughton) 4 stars

Eccentric genius Adam Bosch has cracked the multiverse and discovered a way to travel to …

Why have I survived? Because I am a creature more devious than all the other mes put together. Because I saw myself bleeding out and instead of checking for a pulse, I began collecting her things. I survive the desert like a coyote survives, like all tricksters do.

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David Heska Wanbli Weiden: Winter Counts (Hardcover, 2021, Wheeler Publishing Large Print) 4 stars

A groundbreaking thriller about a vigilante on a Native American reservation who embarks on a …

Really good read, but reality is depressing.

4 stars

Actual : 4.5 stars

Weiden is an Indigenous author that I picked up for a book challenge that is meant to make me branch out my reading more. This was definitely an enjoyable read and the pacing was really good through the whole book.

There are so many issues that are covered in this book that everyone should be more aware of because they still happen to this day. The main storyline running through this book covers how there's a massive disconnect between what tribal police are able to take care of and what the feds deem to be worth their time. The disgust and disdain for the government is sprinkled liberally through, and justifiably so. These messages are so important to be able to put out there, and I'm glad that authors like Weiden are able to use their novels to get those messages out.

I don't even know …

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reviewed The Magicians by Lev Grossman (Magicians Trilogy, #1)

Lev Grossman: The Magicians (Paperback, 2009, Viking Press, Penguin Books, A Plume Book) 3 stars

"Quentin Coldwater's life is changed forever by an apparently chance encounter: when he turns up …

Hear Me Out:

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So. Storytime. In my country, children are separated into different high schools at twelve years old, based on academical aptitude. At the highest level, there are two types of school, gymnasium and atheneum, with the only difference being that at a gymnasium they also teach Greek and Latin. That's the one I went to (not bragging, I was a very mediocre student). As you might imagine, the type of twelve-year old that chooses to go to a gymnasium usually isn't just smart, but also very driven to prove themselves academically. Many of us staked a lot of our self-esteem on our intelligence, especially if we didn't have a lot else going on, like also being athletic or socially gifted. We were all kind of used to being the smartest kid in the room, and then suddenly we weren't. Worse, there were always a couple of stand out, near genius level …