I'm David, a queer Fennoscottish physicist who never has enough time to read.
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The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue is a 2020 fantasy fiction standalone novel written by …
I really enjoyed this! The quiet incorporation of queer relationships was very welcome, and the use of chapters set in different times and places worked well.
@NC I was going to write my own review, but I think I couldn't put it better than you have here. Now I'd really like to hear the audiobook version...
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Maggie Nelson’s The Argonauts is a genre-bending memoir, a work of “autotheory” offering fresh, fierce, …
The personal perspective makes this feel at first like a novel that affectionately mocks academic queer feminism but it actually is the stereotypical nonfiction work of academic queer feminism I thought it was mocking, only framed within a set of intimate personal anecdotes. And it is excellent. The Audiobook is read by the author with affecting understatement.
An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and …
I finished reading The Argonauts in Oodi central library last night before returning it.
I really enjoyed this book. Not a particularly easy read for me personally, but there was a lot that resonated with me. I often find books that make reference to lots of other literature to be a bit wearing, but not this one. It's the sort of book I would like to have on my shelf to dip into from time to time, so perhaps I will buy a copy.
