Reading for fun, threads over the years of scifi, history, social movements and justice, farming, philosophy. I actively work to balance out the white male default in what I read, but have a long way to go.
He/they for the praxis.
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8% complete! loppear has read 7 of 80 books.
Douglas W. Tallamy’s first book, Bringing Nature Home, awakened thousands of readers to an urgent situation: wildlife populations are in …
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, utterly reliant on artificial labor …
@bremner@book.dansmonorage.blue this is reminiscent, and I love Valente's snark so yes, that was my expectation in part, but this promises a more somber dark and jarring humor. The difference between Eurovision and a misfits jazz bar house trio.
Shortlisted for the 2022 Booker Prize
"A hypnotic and electrifying Irish tale that transcends country, transcends time." —Lily King, New …
Nebula, Locus, and Alex Award-winner P. Djèlí Clark returns to his popular alternate Cairo universe …
Loved the world setting and intensity of the determined women leads in an epic murder-magic-catastrophe, though the whodunnit procedural hunt for obscured informants plodded some for me.
When an army of giant robot AIs threatens to devastate Earth, a virtuoso pianist becomes …
Madcap mashup of music theory appreciation, 80s mech battles, queer and starstruck. The first third's dry and cataclysmic wit at the end of the world shifts to a somewhat more conventional (?) military space soap opera rom com, I do wish it had kept the gay piano bar Douglas Adams vibe more prominent.
The sequel to Howl's Moving CastleWhen Charmain Baker agreed to look after her great-uncle's house, …
Firmly middle-grade enjoyment - exploration and unexpected encounters in a mixed-up magical wizards house and realm. The plot races in at the end thick and rapidly dispatched.
'Groundbreaking ... [provides] a deep history of the invention of the 'normal' mind as one …
Framing the history of psychiatric definitions of normality in their origins of eugenics, racism, and capitalist to neoliberal emphasis on individual ranking and pathologizing of the ab-normal. Rounds it out with a broad view of the neurodiversity movement in response to the mass-disabling of round-the-clock capitalist consumerist desires and inequalities.
@OneMillionMice for sure, I've got a big fierce stack of AK for the year ahead. Haymarket Books similarly.
No Pasarán! Antifascist Dispatches from a World in Crisis
Shane Burley (Editor); Tal Lavin (Foreword); David Renton (Afterword) $25.00 Quantity …
A debut that Neil Gaiman calls “Glorious. . . . So sharp, so focused and so human.” The Girl in …
On Winston Churchill’s first day as prime minister, Adolf Hitler invaded Holland and Belgium. Poland and Czechoslovakia had already fallen, …
