Slow reader. Computer music, sci-fi & critical theory. Genderqueer. Any pronoun.
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Kleon claims he hates self promotion. And indeed this is a book about how to - as an artist, creator - create meaningful connections, find (not necessarily build) audience without using the "promotion" and "marketing" strategies. Most of the time. It's a good book with good advice.
Years ago, they had escaped together from the sinister Tombs of Atuan—she, an isolated young priestess; he, a powerful wizard. …
This is actually quite good book without much classical self_help fodder.
When the prince of Enlad declares the wizards have forgotten their spells, Ged sets out …
This book has a strong message about the necessity of death, imagining what happens when immortality is possible.
The Tombs of Atuan is a fantasy novel by the American author Ursula K. Le Guin, first published in the …
"In this astonishing book from the author of the bestselling memoir The Good Good Pig, …
There was a bit too much of subjectivity projected as objective in this book for my taste. It's lovely and well written book, but somehow often a bit superficial. I am eager to know more about octopus intelligence, but there was a lot of anectodal evidence and subsequent speculation here and too little hard-core science. I possibly had bigger expectations.
This book compiles articles, essays, lecture transcripts, album annotations and other texts written by queer …
The livebomb part (essay and annotations) and particularly the last one where there's an intertwining of futurist quotes, history of a particular lynching of three black men and Terre's commentary was powerfully heartbreaking.
Doro is an entity who changes bodies like clothes, killing his hosts by reflex or design. He fears no one …
Centuries in the future, Terrans have established a logging colony & military base named “New Tahiti” on a tree-covered planet …
In this book, a leading plant scientist offers a new understanding of the botanical world and a passionate argument for …
