Matt K started reading Unity by Elly Bangs
Danae is not only herself. She is concealing a connection to a grieving collective inside …
I found this on my nook. Looks good!
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Matt K finished reading Travel light by Naomi Mitchison (Virago modern classics -- no.176)
Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast …
A great fairy tale that turns into an adventure and walks through so many stories and years wunderbear!
Matt K started reading Travel light by Naomi Mitchison (Virago modern classics -- no.176)
Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast …
Why not a book recommended by a book? Seems like a perfect fairy tale so far.
Matt K finished reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
Bravo! A brilliant braid of beautiful ideas
Matt K wants to read Travel light by Naomi Mitchison (Virago modern classics -- no.176)
Travel Light is the story of Halla, a girl born to a king but cast …
Blue and Red praise this book in This is how you lose the time war and it seems great
Matt K commented on This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
This is just so brilliant and beautiful.
Matt K started reading This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar, Max Gladstone
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange letters—and fall in love in …
Matt K quoted Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher …
"I know that when I die somebody's going to sell my flesh on the black market, one of my awful distant relatives. That's why I smoke and drink, so I taste bitter and no one gets any pleasure out of my death." She takes a quick drag and says, "Today I'm the butcher, tomorrow I might be the cattle."
— Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica, Sarah Moses (Page 37)
Everything in every page is deliciously bitter and uncomfortable
Matt K commented on Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher …
Ten pages in and holy shit this is gonna be a wild ride.
Matt K started reading Tender Is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
A society where cannibalism has been legalized because of an animal Virus, leaves the butcher …
Recommended by Veronica and then I saw it on display so I grabbed it.
@allenspark Sadly this link is dead.
Matt K finished reading The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
Wow. I could re-read it right now.
Matt K reviewed The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
Shevek, a brilliant physicist, decides to take action. He will seek answers, question the unquestionable, …
I got full rations: I earned them. I earned them by making lists of who should starve
5 stars
More plot than most of her books, it still turns back into a person on a journey. Shevek is on a journey from his anarchic home to a capitalist world. What propels him from a simple world of shared struggles? Why leave? When he arrives can he accomplish his goals? Is there something he can do that the people there couldn’t do for themselves? Will he be trapped and neutralized by the soft prison of luxury?
And how can he return home? What awaits an anarchist who is seen to turn his back on the revolution?
I love the deep thinking about language and the practice of mutual aid in a land with few resources. I love the true struggle to stay good when the droughts hit. And the challenge that centralization and coordination always brings. Everything is dealt with in indirect ways that paint larger pictures just out of …
More plot than most of her books, it still turns back into a person on a journey. Shevek is on a journey from his anarchic home to a capitalist world. What propels him from a simple world of shared struggles? Why leave? When he arrives can he accomplish his goals? Is there something he can do that the people there couldn’t do for themselves? Will he be trapped and neutralized by the soft prison of luxury?
And how can he return home? What awaits an anarchist who is seen to turn his back on the revolution?
I love the deep thinking about language and the practice of mutual aid in a land with few resources. I love the true struggle to stay good when the droughts hit. And the challenge that centralization and coordination always brings. Everything is dealt with in indirect ways that paint larger pictures just out of sight, beyond the edge of the book.
Highly recommend.
As the conditions necessary to sustain life on Tvíbura grow erratic, the populace attempts two …
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Matt K reviewed Fables by Bill Willingham (Fables Compendium #1)
When a savage creature, known only as the Adversary, conquered the fabled lands of legends …
Things happen one after another
3 stars
I was always recommended Fables when I talked about how much I liked The Sandman.
This isn’t a grand story about the power of story or a new perspective on old tales. It’s a lot of stories with the names of characters you’ve heard of before.
The characters are only loosely connected to their sources and they change abilities and temperament to suit the plot of the week.
We learn nothing, we don’t grow while reading it and one thing just sort of happens after another. There are real risks and losses though! The author doesn’t wiggle out of death or consequences, which gives some stakes to the conflicts.
I would not recommend this to someone who says they loved The Sandman.