David Weir wants to read Yellowface by Rebecca F. Kuang
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David Weir stopped reading Mathematics made difficult by Carl E. Linderholm
Reading this is too much like work… 😅
David Weir started reading Wild Fell by Lee Schofield
David Weir finished reading 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, …
I had wanted to read some of the Murderbot Diaries series for a long time, but the upcoming TV show (and discussions about the casting) made me want to read it for myself. The setting and themes to me feel very camp, and I think it might be the first camp sci-fi I've knowingly read. It also feels queer-coded.
I'm a bit confused, just like Murderbot: I can't quite separate whether it's more camp or queer-coded.
In any case I really enjoyed it and hope to read subsequent books.
David Weir wants to read Countess by Suzan Palumbo
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Gersande La Flèche wants to read Countess by Suzan Palumbo
Wait, the key words used to describe this are incredible:
queer, Caribbean, anti-colonial sci-fi novella, inspired by the Count of Monte Cristo
DANG I want to read this. @leifur have you seen this?!
David Weir started reading Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Wind's Twelve Quarters is a collection of short stories by American writer Ursula K. …
Reading mostly so I can be an Earthsea completionist... I am sure I have read some of the non-Earthsea short stories before.
David Weir finished reading The Daughter of Odren by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #Short 1)
The Daughter of Odren by Ursula K. Le Guin (Earthsea Cycle, #Short 1)
The Daughter of Odren is a short story of betrayal and revenge set in the world of Earthsea, in which …
David Weir finished reading The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs …
David Weir started reading The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
The Other Wind by Ursula K. Le Guin
"The sorcerer Alder fears sleep. He dreams of the land of death, of his wife who died young and longs …
David Weir finished reading Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician …
David Weir quoted Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her …
“… The dead are dead. The great and mighty go their way unchecked. All the hope left in the world is in the people of no account.” “Must we hide forever?” “Spoken like a man,” said Veil with her gentle, wounded smile.
— Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin (22%)
David Weir started reading Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
Tales from Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin
In this final episode of "The Earthsea Cycle", the widowed Tenar finds and nurses her aging friend, Sparrowhawk, a magician …
David Weir reviewed Tehanu by Ursula K. Le Guin
A healthy dose of gender
5 stars
For me this is the most interesting of the Earthsea books so far. There’s a deep exploration of the roles of both women and men; it’s sometimes frustrating to read, and maybe if it were written today some things would be expressed differently, but I think it’s pretty much perfect as it is. I very much enjoyed it; it felt like a reward for patiently reading the earlier books with more traditional gender roles.
Le Guin writes beautiful descriptive prose, of both people and places. The oft-quoted speeches (e.g. from Moss) in this book were not so memorable in isolation for me as for some other readers; rather, it is the totality of the book that I loved.