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65% complete! left_adjoint has read 26 of 40 books.
During the real estate crash of the late 2000s, Christopher Brown purchased an empty lot in an industrial section of …
Ethan Mollick, professeur à Wharton et auteur de la populaire newsletter One Useful Thing Substack, …
It already feels a little dated but Ethan is legitimately thoughtful when drawing out the good and bad uses of modern LLMs for knowledge work.
It'll only take a couple of hours to read through, very breezy, but not dumbed down or inaccurate
I have such a weak spot for century old pulp sci-fi and fantasy
Can a synthesis of trans liberation and feminism be easily arrived at? This collection asserts …
Maybe I'm the wrong audience but I feel like this book was pretty sub-101 transfeminism and also not particularly well-written or persuasive. Not offensive but also not much of anything. The last chunk, "Third Sex", deconstructing how transness in south asia has been framed was definitely the highlight of the book
So weirdly raw and sortof triggering but the surreality and abstraction weirdly makes it easier to look at
Saw this book on a shelf and was so enamored with how strange it look I had to borrow it
This reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers …
Content warning Spoilings
It's not Mechanique, let's get that out of the way
but it's a really good story that will hit hard if you grew up a captive in your home like I did
my only quibble with it is that there's some moments it feels like the flow of time gets a little funky but that might even be intentional given the content, playing with Jo's sense of time being based in how much is happening
the years of captivity disappearing in a nonlinear blur and the last few months as the sisters all start really living feel like they should have filled years instead
the ending is sappy and sweet and I cried multiple times through this book as I powered through it desperate to know if they got away or not and if Jo and Tom find each other again
This reimagining of the "Twelve Dancing Princesses" traces the story of a family of flappers …
Liking it so far
Feels like a transitionary form between Mechanique's singular style and her more "normal" novel writing in Persona
It's slow and character focused in the good way
Oh, also, there was an odd streak I've noticed in this kind of feminist lit that seems to relish describing sexual violence
""The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as …
It's
okay?
It's a lot thinner on concepts and insight than I'd hoped and has the flaws radical feminist writing often does: penis as sole implementation and synecdoche of sexual violence, ahistoric lauding of women led societies as inherently fair and non violent, bits of evopsych dripping in
It also wasn't, like, bad? But I feel like the first 30 pages and the last twentyish are really the heart of the text with a lot of filler
""The connections traced between rampant masculinity, misogyny, carnivorism, and militarism operate as powerfully today as when Carol Adams first diagnosed …
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously original existential nightmare. Aboard the …
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously …
What a strange inexplicable thing (complimentary)
Shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Employees reshuffles a sci-fi voyage into a riotously …
Halfway through and what a fascinatingly weird little book
More like experimental prose poetry than a novel
If you've ever seen the movie Kontroll do you remember the scene where all the subway workers go through their psych evals and it's a montage of surreally broken people?
Okay it's like that but sci-fi
