Not sure this just isn't for me, or if the audiobook isn't the right format. Having a hard time following the story, don't like any of the characters, find the writing clumsy (characters saying their own name? Others serving as exposition machines?), and there's explicit and persistent fatphobia. Hard to put my finger on exactly what I don't like about the female characters; it may just be that they're talking exclusively about men and bloodlines (aka childbearing) so far. It's looking like a DNF; I may give it another try, I may not.
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Queer, friendly, wordy, neurodivergent. Vacillatingly voracious reader. General rule of avoiding books that are written by/for/about cishet white men, especially Americans.
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rainbowreckoner rated We Have Always Lived in the Castle: 3 stars
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not long ago there were …
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not long ago there were …
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson
Merricat Blackwood lives on the family estate with her sister Constance and her Uncle Julian. Not long ago there were …
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rainbowreckoner rated Fingersmith: 4 stars
Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters.
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Fingersmith by Sarah Waters
Fingersmith is a 2002 historical crime novel set in Victorian-era Britain by Sarah Waters.
rainbowreckoner finished reading Moonglow by Michael Chabon
Moonglow by Michael Chabon
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a …
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Moonglow by Michael Chabon
A man bears witness to his grandfather's deathbed confessions, which reveal his family's long-buried history and his involvement in a …
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Robin Talley: Pulp (2018, Harlequin Enterprises, Limited)
Pulp by Robin Talley
To avoid problems in her personal life, openly gay high school senior Abby Cohen focuses all of her attention on …
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Dune by Frank Herbert (Dune, #1)
Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, heir to a noble family …
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Set on the desert planet Arrakis, Dune is the story of the boy Paul Atreides, …
rainbowreckoner rated The Centre: 5 stars
rainbowreckoner finished reading The Centre by Ayesha Manazir Siddiqi
rainbowreckoner reviewed An Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon
"Aster has little to offer folks in the way of rebuttal when they call her …