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Its rage, its beauty, and its language stop me in my tracks. This book is a devastatingly eloquent indictment of Western complicity in genocide; a condemnation of the moral emptiness of those who do the killing, finance it, and justify it; and a challenge to those who turn away, who keep silent.
At this point I don't have a TBR pile. There's a TBR pile that has a Jackson Allen.
Yep. Done with another one.
"Katabasis: A Novel" by R. F. Kuang: #DNF because, after a lifetime of reading, I'm tired of adult characters so childishly turned inward that two conversations BEFORE the story would render the whole thing completely fucking obsolete.
A cool conceit, and someone too bone-headed to ask questions about things they don't understand, do not an engaging narrative make. #amReading
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Just finished "Match Point!" by Maddie Gallegos, an excellent graphic novel about racquetball, dumpster diving, best friends, and pressure from Dad. The characters and their fromance are super cute, and while I'm sure some might find the ending too happy, I'm usually fine with seeing the aspirational version of relationships because it can serve as a good role model, while other narratives can help explain how to handle worse outcomes.
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New Read - Delicious in Dungeon, Volume 14 (Final Volume)
And with that, it is finished.
I have mixed feelings.
I enjoyed the ending. It was a fitting end to the series and worked well. It also tied up so many loose ends.
Although the romantic subtext between Marcille and Laios OR between Marcille and Falin was never really explored and my goodness did they have various chances by the end.
But, I regardless of me trying to ship characters, I think it ended well and each character's ending was earned.
Glad I read this series.
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I #AmReading (again) "To Shape A Dragon's Breath" by Moniquill Blackgoose in anticipation of next week's audiobook release of the sequel, "To Ride a Rising Storm".
It's a good read. But it's also a hard read, because it's just an unending stream of microaggressions that aren't micro. I keep having to break it into chunks, where I can go off and do something else for a bit, to reregulate.
It doesn't help that my other read is "Selected Works of Audre Lorde".
Maybe I need to get a third book going. One that's light and fluffy and empty calories.
Just finished "You and Me on Repeat" by Mary Shyne. A really sweet graphic novel about graduating high school (and all that entails socially and romantically) set in a semi-stable time loop (in small-town Illinois).
It's got a very comfortably loose fourth wall, excellent art, some really interesting plot twists, and it includes a healthy and subtle treatment of subtler racisms in highschool social and academic life.
It's true, books are the best and they do indeed rock. #books #booklovers #amreading
Yesterday I finished "Marshmallow and Jordan" by Alina Chau. It's an excellent cozy graphic novel about a friendship between a wheelchair-using athlete and a baby elephant in Indonesia. It's got lovely vibrant art, an interesting plot, and a final twist that fits nicely.
Not sure it's totally realistic about the accessibility of water polo, and it's not #OwnVoices but the author made what to me seems like a good effort to be both respectful and neither too-positive nor too-paternalistic about disability. Would be curious to hear the perspective of someone who use mobility aids about this of course.
📘 "Beautyland" by Marie-Helene Bertino
I was expecting to enjoy this book, but I didn't. It started off somewhat promising and then kept deflating.
It's promoted as a book about a girl who thinks she's an alien. I guess you could summarize it like that. It's a book chronicling a (probably neurodivergent) woman's life. She's described as being so different, but she grows up, goes to school, works a 9 to 5, drives a car, goes to the gym, drinks wine in restaurants with a friend, visits her parent, cares for a dog. She has a hard time understanding human's behaviors and social cues, and reports on this to aliens. That's it.
I don't know. It's written well. The story flows. It's an okay book. That's it. It's just so... safe and generic. In certain ways it's like every book about girlhood, like every coming of age book, like every small-town-moves-to-the-big-city book, like every contemporary book about being fully functional but not feeling like you fit in, like every mediocre book giving a little mild critique on the hypocrisy of people and grief. It feels completely average in the category of American general fiction.
I wish it had done anything at all. Anything. To me, this book felt like a potato (so much potential) that was peeled and cooked without any spices added. There were two grains of salt on there at the beginning, but they quickly ran out.
One positive thing is that this book (in combination with a recommendation on Masto) motivated me to pick up Carl Sagan's book "Cosmos". I'm having a good time with that so far.
PS: This book 100% spoils the ending to the tv show "The Good Place", just a warning if you'd still like to watch that unspoiled.
The preface of Black Marxism is more a mini-biography of the author than what I usually expect of a preface. Still very interesting read and introduced several of Johnson's ideas and concepts.
I did find myself wondering at one point what Johnson (would have) thought of Tyranny of the Structureless. (Tyranny of the Structureless was around over a decade before Johnson published Black Marxism, but I have no idea if he actually knew of it. Very much hoping it comes up later in the actual text.)
Yesterday I finished "The Other Side of Tomorrow" written by Tina Cho and illustrated by Deb JJ Lee. Lee's "In Limbo" was an excellent graphic memoir, and this similarly has wonderful art, although I didn't make the connection until checking the authors after reading to the end.
This book is a realistic fictional account of two childrens' escape from North Korea via China, Laos, and ultimately Thailand where they could declare themselves refugees at a US embassy and get sponsored to live in America. Along the way they're helped by various members of the Asian Underground Railroad. I'll avoid spoilers but yet definitely encounter difficulties along the way.
The ending definitely hits different now (while also accentuating my disgust with the current US regime). Like "Libertad" that I also finished recently, the "escape to the US at the end" plot line is going to become less prevalent going forward, although Libertad involved a good measure of complexity around that point.
I was a bit disappointed in one of the later plot points where a different and more-real-world-probable turn of events could have served as a better message for society, with the "lucky" outcome as written reinforcing regressive notions of family, and as an ex-Christian the Christian elements of the story made me feel a way. I'm an agnostic, not an atheist though, and can respect the idea that those willing to risk torture and death for their faith have every right to stand by it and take inspiration from it. Most (very valid) critiques of big western Church institutions just don't apply to underground churches in northern China who are helping people escape the horrors of deep fascism.
Overall a really good book.
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I've posted about
two of Annie Roger's
Heythwaite series books about
the antics of a Yorkshire Town.
The third and final book
sees a mystery unfold
with tragic consequences
and an upheaval on
the high street.
No spoilers so I will stop there
but it certainly wraps up the trilogy.
It's 'Farewell to Heythwaite'
by Annie Eileen Rogers
if you're interested.
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