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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47% complete! loppear has read 38 of 80 books.
Writer, filmmaker, and organizer Astra Taylor takes a curious, critical, and ultimately hopeful look at the uniquely modern concept of …
Girl, Woman, Other follows the lives and struggles of twelve very different characters. Mostly women, black and British, they tell …
A science fiction retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo.
Revenge across all time and reason, swashbuckling adventure and escape, twisted double-crossing. And good literary feel in many borrowed and emphasized lines and themes, a fantastic sci-fi homage to The Count Of Monte Cristo.
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, …
Despite the entertainment of fully immiserating an Elon-esque failson, along with wealth and war and human timescales of happiness, the misogyny is heavy and the plot is pointlessly dulled along the way. Can't all be winners.
@seanderson13 just had a reference to Thomas Berry's "The Great Work" bookwyrm.social/book/859280/s/the-great-work show up new to me in "We Are Each Other's Harvest", too.
The planet of Kiln is where the tyrannical Mandate keeps its prison colony, and for inmates, the journey there is …
The only life Tress has known on her island home in an emerald-green ocean has …
Entertaining YA-adjacent fantasy adventure, enjoyable magic and plot twists at a steady pace, and an earnest girl lead acting thoroughly considerately and boldly.
What's the harm in a pseudonym? New York Times bestselling sensation Juniper Song is not …
Wonderfully contrived to make you care about what horror the dislikable narrator will justify next, in a savage and very online swipe at publishing, representation, and authorship.
When your parents die, you find out who they really were.
Griffon Keming’s second parents …
Lit novel of chosen family support for self-determination, in trans and in revolt, with a tinge of speculative fic background and an arms-length from the action, taking place as much in the kitchen and studio as the streets. I loved this for the care and openhearted family dynamics, even though everything in the story is triggering trauma and violence, it is a warm story.
A science fiction retelling of the Count of Monte Cristo.
When pioneering marine biologist Dr. Ha Nguyen is offered the chance to travel to the remote Con Dao Archipelago to …
The Sirens of Titan is an outrageous romp through space, time, and morality. The richest, most depraved man on Earth, …
Accounts and reflection, mostly personally connected to the author's global Buddhist peacemaking journey, of deeply lived altruism, empathy, integrity, respect, and engagement (her organizing terms) that are central to ethical life but risk becoming all-consuming and counter-destructive at the extremes. Care and freedom for all is inseparable from care for oneself.
From Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply personal account of enduring—and surviving—an attempt …
Good parts are Rushdie's imaginings, mental literary meanderings, and gallows humor. Would have been fine as a long-form article, a love letter to his new wife and to aging's difficulties healing, touches only briefly on the regret of still being better known for his tragedies than for his books.
