mouse ha iniziato a leggere Translation State di Ann Leckie
Qven was created to be a Presger translator. The pride of their Clade, they always …
So pleased to be here
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mouse ha finito di leggere The thin man di Dashiell Hammett
The Thin Man (1934) is a detective novel by Dashiell Hammett, originally published in the …
The movie is better.
mouse ha recensito The English Understand Wool di Helen Dewitt
Raised in Marrakech by a French mother and English father, a 17-year-old girl has learned …
Just charming
5 stelle
Dryly funny and endearing. I read this in one sitting last night and I've been thinking about how fun it was throughout the day
mouse ha finito di leggere Dao de jing di Laozi
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …
I've had this sitting around for a while and I'm so glad I finally got around to reading it
mouse ha iniziato a leggere Piranesi di Susanna Clarke
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
This is one of the few books I feel like I can re-read forever; this will be my third pass
mouse ha finito di leggere Immodest Acts di Judith C. Brown
The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of …
Somewhat surprisingly for a book randomly found in a thrift store, this was interesting, accessible, and short (about 130 pages minus appendices). It was a fun way to meditate on ins and out of trying to understand people in history, in general and specifically in regard to morality and sexuality, as a person who can't escape their own subconscious contemporary context and also as a person with a very conscious perspective.
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The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of …
I have now been informed that there is a Verhoeven movie based on this book??
mouse ha iniziato a leggere Immodest Acts di Judith C. Brown
The discovery of the fascinating and richly documented story of Sister Benedetta Carlini, Abbess of …
This is really fun so far!
mouse ha iniziato a leggere The lonely city di Olivia Laing
What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately …
I wish I had a specific label for the type of nonfiction this is, where it's a mix of memoire, thinking about ideas, and evocative factual passages? At any rate, enjoying this so far and I have learned something about some artists already so that's cool
mouse ha recensito Strange and Stubborn Endurance di Foz Meadows
Not for me
3 stelle
This really didn't do it for me! I think part of that is that I'm not wild about romances and this was a romance. A big complaint for me is that the romantic leads behave so constantly and consistently we've-been-to-therapy correctly towards each other that I found their interactions tedious and didactic. It felt moralizing to me ("observe, this is the correct way to handle an emotion"), but I think it was intended to be more of a wish fulfillment love story ("imagine if you dated someone this emotionally mature"). Also everyone is described as being super hot and I did not enjoy that.
The heroes behaved perfectly in every situation and the villains were over-the-top horrible in every situation, and even though the moral stakes were ones I agree with (don't sexually assault people, don't be homophobic, don't murder people), I was put off by the black-and-white-ness of the …
This really didn't do it for me! I think part of that is that I'm not wild about romances and this was a romance. A big complaint for me is that the romantic leads behave so constantly and consistently we've-been-to-therapy correctly towards each other that I found their interactions tedious and didactic. It felt moralizing to me ("observe, this is the correct way to handle an emotion"), but I think it was intended to be more of a wish fulfillment love story ("imagine if you dated someone this emotionally mature"). Also everyone is described as being super hot and I did not enjoy that.
The heroes behaved perfectly in every situation and the villains were over-the-top horrible in every situation, and even though the moral stakes were ones I agree with (don't sexually assault people, don't be homophobic, don't murder people), I was put off by the black-and-white-ness of the characters.
While the author has put a lot of thought into gender and sexuality, even if I found it ultimately shallow, I found the near total absence of a critique of power and class to be pretty uncomfortable.
That said, it wasn't hard to read, and if you wanted a comforting romance about healing from assault (which, fair warning, is very graphic, though not imo gratuitous), it might be for you. And I really liked that the protagonists spend the whole book trying to solve a mystery and do an absolutely abysmal job at it.
mouse ha recensito Some Desperate Glory di Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
Dark but not heavy
5 stelle
This book really stuck with me after reading it. I had to stop reading it before bed because I would stay up too late reading it, which is a trait I cherish in a book and is also hard to pull off in a book with such heavy themes -- brainwashing, abuse, reproductive coercion, war,.... And the characters were so well articulated. I really live for books where characters seem like actual humans who are capable of being really truly horrible to each other and also capable of kindness and growth.
mouse ha finito di leggere The Conjure-Man Dies di Rudolph Fisher
I enjoyed this! I wouldn't recommend it if someone was just looking for something to read because wow the language around race does not age well and the plot wasn't super tight, but it's an interesting piece of the history of detective fiction
mouse commento su Some Desperate Glory di Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
This was extremely good, I don't have cogent enough thoughts to write a review yet, but I liked this a whole lot and it was also very intense
mouse ha iniziato a leggere Some Desperate Glory di Emily Tesh
All her life Kyr has trained for the day she can avenge the murder of …
interesting to start a book with the protagonist being the absolute worst!
mouse ha finito di leggere Strange and Stubborn Endurance di Foz Meadows
I'm a little grumpy that I predicted the twist at the end early on. This wasn't really my thing, but it wasn't bad?