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I've been enjoying reading design books on my tablet in the mornings, but this one is pure evil and has really killed my learning buzz and made me question everything I'm doing with my life :(

Technically I restarted after leaving it too long. Not the book's fault. Fantasy that feels more like sci-fi in that it talks about the present in the guise of another world, rather than being a phantasy of bucolic racialist feudalism. Has labour and a mode of production, and every story is far richer for that. Highly recommend.

initially thought I wasn't gonna be able to get into this because the surveillance tech/private prison dystopia is barely altered from the one we're currently in, and that's not super appealing literary escape right now. But I got sucked in and enjoyed the read overall. My gripes are that I found some aspects of it really heavy-handed, and there were also a few lines of thought/plot points that were cracked open but never fleshed out, which in some ways made things feel more realistic and less tidy but was also kind of weird and disappointing.

This book is a collection of about a dozen 10-page short stories so it seemed like a good candidate for trying to push through even though I wasn't super immediately compelled. Thinking maybe I should try to finish more books rather than immediately abandoning ones that I'm not totally in love with. There were a few moments/stories that I enjoyed but overall I found this collection pretty bland. At least I didn't waste too much time. If you're gonna write navel-gazey stories about women where basically nothing happens I want the writing to knock my socks off. Or maybe its better than I'm giving it credit for and my tastes are just changing.