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Poland, 1980. Shy, anxious Ludwik has been sent along with the rest of his university …
Audiobook. Gay love story that takes place in State Socialist Poland. Reason I'm reading is prolly p self-explanatory
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
Cool ass book. Queer as hell and edgy and gross and awesome. Would definitely read another Alison Rumfitt though next maybe another Jenny Hval or maybe other.
A dark, unflinching haunted house novel that takes readers from the well of the literary …
transgressive fiction. begins with a guattari quote. i found alison rumfitt via the z-library wikipedia page. the last part amuses me because she seems v critical theory and i didn't find her by way of that.
Jo is in a strange new country for university, and having a more peculiar time …
started the audiobook a little while ago, it's very strange but i enjoyed it. it's a pretty gross book about decay, a poorly upkept house (full of fungi, insects, etc.) and people melting into one another. Also, there is a lot of urine in this book for some reason. it's also lesbian as hell. i am glad i listened to it, i should listen to some of jenny hval's music :3
dropped for now
A deep dive into the spectrum of Autistic experience and the phenomenon of masked Autism, …
stopped reading. i don't really like self-help/activity sort of books.
started, stopped, then started and, now, have finished. it's a relatively short book about spinoza's philosophy and death. not sure if the book itself was boring or the narration, but it was very difficult to pay attention to at points.
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Pretty good book. Interesting to learn about the different ways that cultures think about death and prepare bodies after death. Did like her memoir "Smoke Gets Into Your Eyes" better though.
The best-selling author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes expands our sense of what it …
Book about the death practices of different cultures past and present. I love how uplifting and non-morbid Caitlin Doughty makes death sound and her project to try to cultivate a more healthy relationship to death for other people.
A Thousand Plateau calls (again)...
Content warning nsfw
i am so much more efficient bookwise when i gotta commute!
i started reading this book because i saw it was pretty well reviewed even though it is like hetero monster fantasy smut.
this book has a lot of cock milking in it. i think cock milking is very hot and when the book does it it does it pretty well. i like the very clinical nature of a lot of the milking.
i like the book less when the lady who is milking minotaurs to help pay off her debt falls for one of the minotaurs. their relationship feels pretty patriarchial and heteronormative. at one point he says that when they have sex she gets to be in control but at one point she's lusting hard for his big minotaur cock and he just puts it away then is like "i don't wanna hurt you, i'm too big for you without preparation, so you'll have to come to my house this weekend for a 3 day long fuckfest" (paraphrased). It felt very infantalizing and makes it clear that any control she has is because he allows it.
after their relationship is consumated, the main character goes to her minotaur guy and is like "are you still okay with me working at the minotaur milkery?" i hate that shit, it feels weird and patriarchial.
prior to them getting into a relationship they have an accordion sort of relationship where they are misinformed about each other's availability in ways that lead to them both pulling away and then getting closer again which feels like it could be avoided with just communication. i hate that sort of thing.
the prose is functional. the audiobook is functional. the book would've been better if the main character was a guy and he was milking the knotted cocks of werewolves. all books need at least a little cock milking.
Got back to the D&G biography and finally finished it. It's a phenomenal work that seems to have involved a lot of interviews by the author. I liked learning more about how The Boys differed and their personal and philosophical relationships with other philosophers/activists.
One thing I always forget about philosophical biographies is that they're not always easy reading and frequently go into the ideas of the philosopher or the topics of their books. It's probably good that they do it but I was just here for the events.
I am glad to have finished this book because it has been looming over me for awhile. Now I an free (and simultaneously made unfree again because I am returning to A Thousand Pleateaus after this)
A book of short stories by the creator of Bojack Horseman. They're really zany and strange and generally enjoyable to listen to. That being said, I kind of wish they were very nihilistic and depressing and could worm their way into my very soul like Bojack Horseman has.
Pretty good book. it's essentially a murder mystery that's very matter of fact, very violent, and with a lot of explicit sex. i still like less than zero a lot more because it has a certain mood to it and no plot and this book is diminished in that mood but has a plot.
Pro Git is your fully-updated guide to Git and its usage in the modern world. …
seems like the Git Bible. I am curious enough to at least try reading it. It's like 400+ pages which confuses the hell out of me because you just pull, commit, merge, and push right?