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This starts off strong with 'Dissatisfaction is inherent to the human condition unless you meditate. As proof, consider how bad surviving under capitalism makes you feel. Yeah that's innate."
Qwo-Li Driskill, Melissa Bennett, Alise Marie Sanchez, Layla Woelfle-Deene, Abaki Beck, Skyler Reed: Survivance Vol. 2 (Paperback, Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment)
A collection of american Indigenous poetry
It is assumed you have available such ordinary things as an old handkerchief (too far gone to use for its normal purpose), tissue paper, and egg-cup, some scrap brass and steel rod, etc.
— Watch repairing as a hobby by D. W. Fletcher (Page 19)
oh gosh sure, let me just dig out my scrap metal box real quick and check!
The tools you need to start are neither numerous nor costly, and they can be added to either by purchase or by making them until you have sufficient to take almost any kind of repair job which may come along.
— Watch repairing as a hobby by D. W. Fletcher (Page 14)
Making watch repair tools does not sound easy??? who does the author think I am?
Lynesse is the lowly Fourth Daughter of the queen, and always getting in the way.
But a demon is terrorizing …
Qwo-Li Driskill, Melissa Bennett, Alise Marie Sanchez, Layla Woelfle-Deene, Abaki Beck, Skyler Reed: Survivance Vol. 2 (Paperback, Radical Indigenous Survivance & Empowerment)
A collection of american Indigenous poetry
It was a reasonably fun read, but ultimately doesn't say or do anything new or challenge much of anything at all, in the literary genre or as a commentary on the real world. The story is told in alternating chapters of near and far past, arranged so that the further in the past sections end where the more recently set sections began. It's neat and adds to the tension a little bit, but for such a long book it's just not enough to carry it—especially when the convention was dropped for the last several chapters and can't be carried forward into the three sequels.
And god, the names. It's a problem that I run into a lot in fantasy and it's here in force. There are just too many people with similar but unfamiliar names to keep straight, all scheming and plotting against each other. Intrigue is fun to try …
It was a reasonably fun read, but ultimately doesn't say or do anything new or challenge much of anything at all, in the literary genre or as a commentary on the real world. The story is told in alternating chapters of near and far past, arranged so that the further in the past sections end where the more recently set sections began. It's neat and adds to the tension a little bit, but for such a long book it's just not enough to carry it—especially when the convention was dropped for the last several chapters and can't be carried forward into the three sequels.
And god, the names. It's a problem that I run into a lot in fantasy and it's here in force. There are just too many people with similar but unfamiliar names to keep straight, all scheming and plotting against each other. Intrigue is fun to try to puzzle out, but when I have the full picture but can't remember who did what because they all sound the same, that's not fun.
It was pretty fun! I'll probably have more thoughts about it after I stew on it for a bit though. I can't think of a single named character that wasn't able-bodied.
"You think that evil is something you can just slay. ... [R]eal evil isn't a demon or a rogue wizard. Real evil is an empire like Quur, a society that feeds on its poor and its oppressed like a mother eating her own children. Demons and monsters are obvious; we'll always band together to fight them off. But real evil, insidious evil, is what lets us just walk away from another person's pain and say, well, that's none of my business."
— The Ruin of Kings by Jenn Lyons (Page 428)
A little heavy handed, maybe, but... yeah. except for "we'll always band together". even for a real demon, folks would find a reason it's a good thing if it suited them.
I'm excited for this one! It's very clearly a 2012 republishing though and was written much longer ago judging by what the author assumes the reader is familiar with 😆
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