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mavis

pinkflameinthepan@bookwyrm.social

Joined 3 months, 1 week ago

butch bi-ish dyke tranarchist ex-squatter in the so-called Netherlands. Professionally unemployed

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2025 Reading Goal

41% complete! mavis has read 5 of 12 books.

Margaret Killjoy: The Lamb Will Slaughter the Lion (Paperback, 2017, Tor.com)

Searching for clues about her best friend’s mysterious suicide, Danielle ventures to the squatter, utopian …

Relatable and fun quick read

I feel right at home in the story amongst the punks, anarchists and squatters. It's both relatable in those ways and also inspiring in some other ways. The story is straight to the point in both development of the plot and complexity of it, which makes it a light read and easy to digest read, though I wish it was just a bit longer. I feel like the story would do great in a novel format. Still, I'm super excited to read more.

Jonas Goonface, Margaret Killjoy: Escape from Incel Island (Paperback, 2023, Strangers in a Tangled Wilderness)

To cope with rising misogynist violence, the US government offered people a golden opportunity: any …

Fun light read

A funny and light read with twists I did not expect sometimes, because they're just so absurd and made me think "oh my god, what the fuck, really????", but also contained more lessons than I thought it would.