A delightful heist buddy crew against the odds space marines aliens in all configurations inscrutable galactic menace histories of oppression misunderstanding and hope. Also, a bit light and scattered.
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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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2024 Reading Goal
82% complete! loppear has read 74 of 90 books.
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loppear reviewed Stardust Grail by Yume Kitasei
loppear reviewed Eventually Everything Connects by Sarah Firth
loppear reviewed Rose/House by Arkady Martine
As spare translucent noir, I enjoyed it.
3 stars
Each element is pristine and sun-baked here, like the setting: reluctant detective on the murder case, wealthy aesthetic recluse, mundanely dystopian AI. And as spare translucent noir, I enjoyed it.
loppear started reading Slow Down by Kohei Saito
Slow Down by Brian Bergstrom, Kohei Saito
Why, in our affluent society, do so many people live in poverty, without access to health care, working multiple jobs …
loppear finished reading Let Me Stand Alone by Rachel Corrie
@fionnain same, probably only saw it from your read, jumping in with no further ideas.
loppear started reading Understory by Mui Poopoksakul
Understory by Saneh Sangsuk, Mui Poopoksakul
A novel of man's relationship with nature, power, and the vitality of storytelling, from beloved Thai author Saneh Sangsuk. The …
loppear started reading Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky, #3)
Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse (Between Earth and Sky, #3)
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning conclusion to New York Times …
loppear started reading Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
Who's Afraid of Gender? by Judith Butler
From a global icon, a bold, essential account of how a fear of gender is fueling reactionary politics around the …
loppear reviewed The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
Heartwrenching horrors of WWI
4 stars
Compelled to return to the frontlines of madness, clawing for oblivion in the face of evils and devils, a glint of compassion and sanity from another human sharing the experience. Deftly haunting storytelling.
loppear reviewed Deacon King Kong by James McBride
the audiobook is an absorbing performance
4 stars
What a delightful sprawling madcap slice of New York. Dark and funny, an overwhelming cast and set of threads and diversions. Did any of it matter? Does it voice a rosy cozy gritty 60s or grimly stubborn mid-point between southern oppression and modern violence of drugs and poverty? As recommended to me, the audiobook is an absorbing performance.
loppear reviewed Resisting Garbage by Lily Baum Pollans
how slowly public reframing of infrastructure makes incremental changes possible
3 stars
Wasteways and waste regimes, this points to larger intersectional issues of production, consumption, and political-institutional capture - but is primarily a close comparison of waste management policy in Boston & Seattle in the 1980s and 90s, focused on ultimately narrow variations in recycling programs and citizen input, and how those are compliant or resistant to our national narrative of trash.
loppear reviewed Black Salt by Edouard Glissant
loppear reviewed The Light Eaters by Zoë Schlanger
how will vegetalizing our ideas of intelligence change us?
5 stars
Intrigued by the rapidly burgeoning scientific research on plant capacities, a climate journalist turns to current questions of intelligence, consciousness, and sociality. Overlaps with Franz de Waal, Donna Haraway, Future Ecologies, etc in pushing at our human-centered and exploitative perspective on the world to wonder what it would mean to consider our intellectual capacities diffused to all distant kin.