left_adjoint finished reading Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with 'hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love' (Maggie …
Frustrating book
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left_adjoint rated Amateur: 3 stars
Thomas Page McBee: Amateur (2018)
Amateur by Thomas Page McBee
"From an award-winning writer whose work bristles with 'hard-won strength, insight, agility, and love' (Maggie Nelson), an exquisite and troubling …
left_adjoint rated Ark of the possible: 5 stars
left_adjoint rated An Artificial Night: 5 stars
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #3)
Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would …
left_adjoint rated A Local Habitation: 4 stars
A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #2)
Toby Daye--a half-human, half-fae changeling--has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby …
left_adjoint finished reading Ark of the possible by David B. Dillard-Wright
left_adjoint finished reading An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #3)
An Artificial Night by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #3)
Changeling knight in the court of the Duke of Shadowed Hills, October "Toby" Daye has survived numerous challenges that would …
left_adjoint finished reading A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #2)
A Local Habitation by Seanan McGuire (October Daye, #2)
Toby Daye--a half-human, half-fae changeling--has been an outsider from birth. After getting burned by both sides of her heritage, Toby …
left_adjoint set a goal to read 40 books in 2025
left_adjoint started reading Ark of the possible by David B. Dillard-Wright
left_adjoint reviewed Computers as theatre by Brenda Laurel
Interesting but thin in the wrong places
4 stars
This book is a big mixed bag for me. There's a lot of stuff in it that really gets you stewing about the design of software and what it means for software to be good but there are times where ideas feel wrenched into the framework of theatre when it doesn't make sense
this is kind of a book about intersubjectivity as it applies to software design but without ever actually using that word directly
left_adjoint finished reading Computers as theatre by Brenda Laurel
left_adjoint started reading The cultural logic of computation by David Golumbia
I have no idea what this book will hit like fifteen years later but let's find out
left_adjoint rated Atomic Habits: 4 stars
Atomic Habits by James Clear
No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving—every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading …
left_adjoint reviewed Female Husbands by Jen Manion
Long before people identified as transgender or lesbian, there were female husbands and the women …
Solid history of a particular slice of transness
5 stars
The only reason why I'm giving it 4.5 not 5 stars is because I think the analysis near the end was a little thin. I would have liked to hear more of the author's synthesis in relation to 20th century trans movements and anti-trans backlash in the conclusion