people like books finished reading Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
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I am the admin of this bookwyrm instance! Main fediverse account: @peoplelikedogs@438punk.house.
I like to read scifi and magical realism, some navel-gazey smart-girl autofiction type shit, memoirs and sometimes poetry. I really enjoy reading fiction in translation. I rarely enjoy fantasy, although it's happened once or twice. Always looking for recommendations!
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32% complete! people like books has read 8 of 25 books.
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people like books finished reading Rogue Protocol (The Murderbot Diaries, #3) by Martha Wells
people like books finished reading Artificial condition by Martha Wells
Artificial condition by Martha Wells
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
people like books started reading Artificial condition by Martha Wells
Artificial condition by Martha Wells
It has a dark past - one in which a number of humans were killed. A past that caused it …
people like books replied to people like books's status
@lukaso666@chaos.social did you like "Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych"? I think its one of my favourite books I've read in the last 10 years. Which is why I was so motivated to read this one.
people like books started reading Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Shards of Earth by Adrian Tchaikovsky
Idris has neither aged nor slept since they remade him in the war. And one of humanity's heroes now scrapes …
people like books replied to Bursts__'s status
@Bursts__ Had this exact same experience and motivation for trying to read it... let me know if you get into it and if it's worth pushing through!
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Bursts__ finished reading The Nation on No Map
A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on …
This was such a good book: straight forward language, covered a range of topics, flowed from subject to subject. I'm quite glad that I read this one and would suggest it to anyone. Williams' coverage of ideas from Hartman's (I believe) coverage of neglect, the discussion of lessons learned from Lorenzo Kom'boa Ervin, ideas from Cedric Robinson, CLR James and Modibo Kadalie and so much more really draws out a rich tapestry. A must-read for any anarchist in my opinion.
people like books finished reading Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
people like books replied to never always's status
@neveralways whoa! Really curious how these hold up. I was super obsessed with these when they came out in English, which also coincided with my extremely into 1970s italian shit/Marxist-feminism phase
people like books commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I'm really trying to finish this book this weekend (after starting last winter, fizzling out, and restarting around Christmas). My project last month of mostly reading dozens of zines and being overworked has subsided; my ability to focus is high and I have a lot more time, so I feel dedicated to this task. After crushing about 100 pages this morning I needed a little push so I was digging around for meta analysis and found this article by Olga Tokarczuk about her process and motivation for writing the book, i really enjoyed it and she is such a freak. www.calvertjournal.com/articles/show/13404/olga-tokarczuk-how-i-wrote-the-books-of-jacob
people like books started reading A fairly good time, with green water, green sky by Mavis Gallant
A fairly good time, with green water, green sky by Mavis Gallant
"An NYRB Classics Original Mavis Gallant's two novels are as memorable as her many short stories. Full of wit, whim, …
people like books replied to Leaving_Marx's status
@Leaving_Marx lol I feel like the actual things I got from this book could also be gotten from watching the Pixar movie "inside out"
people like books quoted Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy
Do you think you might have a tendency to divest yourself of the things in your life that actually sustain you?
I suppose this is psychology. I dont know the answer to your question. What? Do I? Do we? How would such a predeliction stack up against the world's own desire to divest one of just those things. I think I understand your question. We've been there before. And it may be a superstition with us that if we will just give up those things that we are fond of then the world will not take from us what we truly love. Which of course is folly. The world knows what you love.
— Stella Maris by Cormac McCarthy (Page 62)
people like books reviewed The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
the old guy... he can write
5 stars
This was really quite good, although super strange and disorienting, enhanced by reading it at bedtime and falling asleep in the middle of chapters most nights. Innumerable sentences and paragraphs highlighted just because of good arrangement of words. Definitely gave my whole life a melancholy tinge these last few weeks. I think I'd like to reread it when I'm older or if death feels more imminent.