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reviewed Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown: Morning Star (Paperback, 2016, Del Rey) 5 stars

Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to …

many, many good emotions

5 stars

It is hard to find words for this book and how many emotions I've experienced in reading through this series so far. The dystopian world is so vivid and alive, the characters so real, it's been an incredible journey as they do from despair to war to uncertainty and back around. But always rising, always looking to a better future. Per aspera, ad astra!

I can't wait to read the next one!

Jennifer Givhan: River Woman, River Demon (AudiobookFormat, 2022, Blackstone Publishing) 4 stars

When Eva’s husband is arrested for the murder of a friend, she must confront her …

Content warning chapter 25-ish

Nina Baym, Wayne Franklin, Philip F. Gura, Jerome Klinkowitz, Arnold Krupat, Robert S. Levine, Mary Loeffelholz, Jeanne Campbell Reesman, Patricia B. Wallace: The Norton anthology of American Literature (Paperback, 2007, W. W. Norton & Company) 5 stars

Firmly grounded in the core strengths that have made it the best-selling undergraduate survey in …

Read a passage by Thomas Jefferson today from his "Notes on the State of Virginia"

Racist. Vile. Disgusting.

I've coined the word "hackass" to describe Thomas Jefferson, and regret ever admiring him as a contributor to the declaration of independence

commented on Morning Star by Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga, #3)

Pierce Brown: Morning Star (Paperback, 2016, Del Rey) 5 stars

Born a lowly Red in the mines of Mars, Darrow lost his beloved wife to …

Content warning spoilers !

commented on Fiction as Method by Theo Reeves-Evison

Theo Reeves-Evison: Fiction as Method (Paperback, 2017, Sternberg Press) 5 stars

The definition of alt-right in the essay "Dark Jesters Hiding in Plain Sight: Hoaxes, Hacks, Pranks, and Polymorphic Simulations" by David Garcia is... interesting.

"an unholy alliance connecting 'teenage gamers, pseudonymous swastika-posting anime lovers, ironic South Park conservatives, anti-feminist pranksters, nerdish harassers and meme-making trolls whose dark humour and love of transgression for its own sake' have been hijacked by actual white-segregationist neo-Naxis, who used the mischievous culture of lulz as cover to propel their ambitious political program all the way to the White House."

Hard to think of it just as a "culture of lulz" when it's so much more complicated.