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agenderfox@babka.social on Mastodon | they/them or fae/faer | non-binary changeling | Jewitch | disabled | bi aroace-ish | fat-positive | I used to read A LOT, but now my brain is broken and I have a hard time concentrating

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Ruthanna Emrys: Half-Built Garden (AudiobookFormat, Doherty Associates, LLC, Tom) 4 stars

On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …

Queer Jewish first contact story

5 stars

A Half-Built Garden by Ruthanna Emrys is a beautiful, extremely Jewish, super queer story about a diverse future world facing first contact not as an alien invasion, but as something possibly more threatening: a well-intentioned helper, certain in their knowledge of what help is needed before ever setting foot on the planet.

what follows is high stakes negotiations, not just with the aliens, but also between different factions of humans (the watersheds, the corporations and the old state powers) and within factions and families. the watersheds might be healing planet earth, but the corporations still haven't learned that infinite growth isn't possible, and they want everything the new visitors are offering (and more)

I won't spoil the story, but you should read this if you like complicated family dynamics that remind you of your own, complex characters with flaws and passions, weird (and interesting) gender stuff, fraught dinner parties (including …

Gretchen Felker-Martin: Manhunt (Paperback, 2022, Tor Nightfire) 4 stars

Y: The Last Man meets The Girl With All the Gifts in Gretchen Felker-Martin's Manhunt, …

I'm 2/3* of the way through this book, and I still don't quite know what to say about it, especially without giving spoilers. I saw another review call it brutal, and it is, but it's also gripping

*well, more than 2/3 in terms of page numbers, but i just finished part two of three, so 2/3 in terms of story, I guess

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Lemony Snicket: Poison for Breakfast (Hardcover, 2021, Liveright) 4 stars

Fantastic, Funny and Thinky!

5 stars

Poison For Breakfast is a very interesting, surprisingly funny, philosophical-as-advertised story. it purports to tell the true tale of what happened the day the author found a note saying "You had poison for breakfast", and it's very believable, until you remember that Lemony Snicket is not just a pseudonym but also a character in A Series Of Unfortunate Events. but Poison For Breakfast did manage to remind me what I like about philosophy ... which is honestly pretty hard to describe, and there's a cat demanding my attention, so, thanks for reading! check this book out!

Lemony Snicket: Poison for Breakfast (Hardcover, 2021, Liveright) 4 stars

Poison For Breakfast is a very interesting, surprisingly funny, philosophical-as-advertised story. it purports to tell the true tale of what happened the day the author found a note saying "You had poison for breakfast", and it's very believable, until you remember that Lemony Snicket is not just a pseudonym but also a character in A Series Of Unfortunate Events. but Poison For Breakfast did manage to remind me what I like about philosophy ... which is honestly pretty hard to describe, and there's a cat demanding my attention, so, thanks for reading! check this book out!