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2025 Reading Goal

30% complete! ablazingpiggy has read 3 of 10 books.

Iain M. Banks: Use of Weapons (Paperback, 2008, Orbit)

The man known as Cheradenine Zakalwe was one of Special Circumstances' foremost agents, changing the …

Review of 'Use of Weapons' on 'Storygraph'

anarchist John Wick but sad and filled with trauma. just needs a hug really. 

Jaymee Goh, Wendy Nikel, D.K. Mok, Julia K. Patt: Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers (2018, World Weaver Press)

Solarpunk is a type of optimistic science fiction that imagines a future founded on renewable …

Review of 'Glass and Gardens: Solarpunk Summers' on 'Storygraph'

it serves it's purpose as an introduction to solarpunk themes. my hope is that the authors featured have improved their prose since. 

Becky Chambers: A Prayer for the Crown-Shy (Hardcover, 2022, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom)

After touring the rural areas of Panga, Sibling Dex (a Tea Monk of some renown) …

Review of 'A Prayer for the Crown-Shy' on 'Storygraph'

this book called my savior complex out and then gave me a hug. im still not over it. 

Jane Hill: Reds! (EBook, 2017, Sea Lion Press)

In 1901, the Polish immigrant turned anarchist assassin Leon Czolgosz sought to strike terror in …

Review of 'Reds!' on 'Storygraph'

a detailed timeline and collection of mixed print media that is informative as it is entertaining. it can get bogged down in legal minutae at times. 

reviewed Authority by Jeff VanderMeer (Southern Reach, #2)

Jeff VanderMeer: Authority (Paperback, 2014)

"In the second volume of the Southern Reach Trilogy, questions are answered, stakes are raised, …

Review of 'Authority' on 'Storygraph'

after reading, my brain feels like it was unnoodled and renoodled quite unkindly.