Elise wants to read Crafting for Sinners by Jenny Kiefer
for book club
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She/Her. 20s. Most of my reading is trying to keep up with my book club. On my own I like SF/F, trans lit and sapphic romance, as well as some non-fiction about topics I find fascinating. This includes dance music, videogames, psychoactive substances, computers and the occult. I also try to read theory, classics and more academic works, though I've struggled with that since I was young. I track my manga reading seperately. My main fedi is currently @throatmuppet@xyzzy.link.
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41% complete! Elise has read 5 of 12 books.
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Elise wants to read Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil by V. E. Schwab
Elise wants to read When the Tides Held the Moon by Venessa Vida Kelley
Elise wants to read Chromatic Fantasy by H.A.
for book club
Elise wants to read More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
More Everything Forever by Adam Becker
This “wild and utterly engaging narrative” (Melanie Mitchell) shows why Silicon Valley’s heartless, baseless, and foolish obsessions—with escaping death, building …
@uhhuhthem@wyrmsign.org the weimar was so interesting. After watching El Dorado, a movie about this same time and milieu, this was exact kind of book I wish I had to learn more; or at least, it certainly seems so
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uhhuhthem wants to read Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoefer (German and European studies -- 23)
Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoefer (German and European studies -- 23)
Elise wants to read Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoefer (German and European studies -- 23)
Sex and the Weimar Republic by Laurie Marhoefer (German and European studies -- 23)
Elise wants to read Time's Agent by Brenda Peynado
Winner of the PKD award
Elise wants to read UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W Kernighan
UNIX: A History and a Memoir by Brian W Kernighan
The fascinating story of how Unix began and how it took over the world. Brian Kernighan was a member of …
Elise started reading Western Esotericism: A Guide for the Perplexed by Wouter Hanegraaff
Elise started reading To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Nampeshiweisit, #1)
To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Nampeshiweisit, #1)
The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs finds a dragon’s egg and …
Elise wants to read Daoism and Anarchism by John Rapp (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)
Daoism and Anarchism by John Rapp (Contemporary Anarchist Studies)
This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series focuses on anti-statist critiques in ancient and modern China and demonstrates that …
Elise wants to read Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, …
This sounds weird. I'm down for that
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betty@bookwyrm.social reviewed Dawnhounds by Sascha Stronach
The port city of Hainak is alive: its buildings, its fashion, even its weapons. But, …
A different kind of future
4 stars
The Dawnhounds is a book that is doing so many different things that any comparison will be a misrepresentation. I think people will mostly point to the way that the technology has been mostly replaced by biology; most obviously, the city is built of fungi, but this isn't a soft solarpunk fantasy; cnidocytes have also been adapted to use as weapons by the police, who as always work to keep the underclass under control.
This world is so radically different that the only clues we are not dealing with a secondary world fantasy are a few words in Maori and some Mandarin dialogue. The history recounted does not resemble the history readers know. Unhappily, some of the repression does.
The protagonist, Yat, is someone who grew up from a disadvantaged kid, to a discriminated against cop with a drug habit and not a lot of introspection. She knows she gets …
The Dawnhounds is a book that is doing so many different things that any comparison will be a misrepresentation. I think people will mostly point to the way that the technology has been mostly replaced by biology; most obviously, the city is built of fungi, but this isn't a soft solarpunk fantasy; cnidocytes have also been adapted to use as weapons by the police, who as always work to keep the underclass under control.
This world is so radically different that the only clues we are not dealing with a secondary world fantasy are a few words in Maori and some Mandarin dialogue. The history recounted does not resemble the history readers know. Unhappily, some of the repression does.
The protagonist, Yat, is someone who grew up from a disadvantaged kid, to a discriminated against cop with a drug habit and not a lot of introspection. She knows she gets the shit jobs because her bisexuality makes her suspect, but not as suspect as someone who eschews men entirely. The police force is corrupt, but life sucks everywhere and for everyone, and she's got to fund her drug habit somehow.
Then she dies and things get weird.
Certain things happen in the course of this story that make it into a different kind of story than the one I have just described, and I am not sure what to do about those things, but I'm glad the story is bigger and weirder than I expected going in.