A well-written if unfocused exploration of the way disability is treated in fairy tales and our stories generally.
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amphibious_technicolor941 rated Stoner: 4 stars
Stoner by John Williams
William Stoner is born at the end of the nineteenth century into a dirt-poor Missouri farming family. Sent to the …
amphibious_technicolor941 reviewed Disfigured by Amanda Leduc
Review of 'The Undocumented Americans' on 'Storygraph'
4 stars
I enjoyed this book, especially the paragraphs where Cornejo Villavicencio breaks the fourth wall a bit and reaches out fo the book to shake you the shoulders. Here's one such bit from the end of the book:
I follow my own advice while trying to hold off on the suicidal ideation while trying to be as socially fucking mobile as socially fucking possible and then these kids fucking find me, and what do I do, but invite them into my heart and tell them, babes, go to school, climb the ranks, kill the salutatorian, make it look like an accident, and in your valedictory address, remind your school that cops are pigs, and ICE are Nazis, and you are John at the foot of the cross, Jesus’s most loved apostle, maybe his lover, and you’re in the holy word, escape to my home for some chamomile tea and RuPaul, there …
I follow my own advice while trying to hold off on the suicidal ideation while trying to be as socially fucking mobile as socially fucking possible and then these kids fucking find me, and what do I do, but invite them into my heart and tell them, babes, go to school, climb the ranks, kill the salutatorian, make it look like an accident, and in your valedictory address, remind your school that cops are pigs, and ICE are Nazis, and you are John at the foot of the cross, Jesus’s most loved apostle, maybe his lover, and you’re in the holy word, escape to my home for some chamomile tea and RuPaul, there will always be room for you, I love you and forever will.
Though at times found myself wishing it took a more systematic view of what being undocumented in America means.
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Luster: 4 stars
Luster by Raven Leilani
Luster sees a young black woman figuring her way into life as an artist and into love in this darkly …
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Men Explain Things to Me: 4 stars
Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit
"In her comic, scathing essay "Men Explain Things to Me," Rebecca Solnit took on what often goes wrong in conversations …
amphibious_technicolor941 rated The Fire Next Time: 4 stars
The Fire Next Time by James Baldwin
A national bestseller when it first appeared in 1963, The Fire Next Time galvanized the nation and gave passionate voice …
Review of 'Parable of the sower' on 'Storygraph'
Update: NYTimes reviewer seems to agree? Points to the sequel as the "masterpiece" www.nytimes.com/2021/01/15/books/review/the-essential-octavia-butler.html?smid=tw-nytbooks&smtyp=cur
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Disability Visibility: 4 stars
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Capitalism and Disability: 5 stars
Capitalism and Disability by Marta Russell, Keith Rosenthal
This book comprises a collection of groundbreaking writings by Marta Russell on the nature of disability and oppression under capitalism. …
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Sula: 3 stars
Sula by Toni Morrison
Two girls who grow up to become women. Two friends who become something worse than enemies. In this brilliantly imagined …
amphibious_technicolor941 rated All Systems Red: 3 stars
All Systems Red by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #1)
"As a heartless killing machine, I was a complete failure."
In a corporate-dominated spacefaring future, planetary missions must be approved …
amphibious_technicolor941 reviewed Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
amphibious_technicolor941 rated The Memory Police: 2 stars
The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa, Stephen Snyder
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of The Housekeeper and the Professor …
amphibious_technicolor941 rated Uncanny Valley: 4 stars
Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener
In her mid-twenties, at the height of tech industry idealism, Anna Wiener—stuck, broke, and looking for meaning in her work, …