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Elise

throatmuppet@ramblingreaders.org

Joined 1 year, 9 months ago

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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commented on To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (Nampeshiweisit, #1)

Moniquill Blackgoose: To Shape a Dragon's Breath (Paperback, 2023, Del Rey) 4 stars

The remote island of Masquapaug has not seen a dragon in many generations—until fifteen-year-old Anequs …

There are so many currents of thought pulling this narrative along. it's really quite stimulating. It's not just any one thing, to square it into any kind of particular genre literature would fail to do it justice. There's alt history angles to this, there's the boarding school primary story, there's the indigenous story, there's fantasy realism going on.

it's giving just a hint of Disco Elysium; that same feeling like you might have just a had a stroke, and everything as you knew it is the same but also different somehow...