(The pages go backwards, but still, this means I'm like 1/3 done)
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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 commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
you can have a little bit of prefigurative politics (as a treat)
4 stars
This was super fun. I thought the oral history format was a really clever format choice, like looking into a giant construction site through little windows cut in the scaffolding and only kind of being able to grasp the depth of the pit. I kept thinking about KSR's New York 2140 and how it couldve been the same world almost, but with more grittiness and trauma and explanations about how we get from here to fully automated gay luxury space communism. I'm pretty sure I have big political differences with the authors, but I seriously enjoyed it nonetheless. I'd really appreciate seeing more of this kind of fantastic dreaming from those who want a drastically different world.
people like books finished reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko
people like books started reading The prison memoirs of a Japanese woman by Kaneko, Fumiko
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History …
fun anti-colonial fantasy-lite
4 stars
Content warning spoilers
The only thing I can hold against it is it's a tiiinnnny bit heavy handed with the metaphors, otherwise this is a super fun and satisfyingly anticolonial take on kid-gets-whisked-off-to-another-life genre. For the fantasy-adverse, there's a small amount of magic but it doesn't go off the rails in that regard.
people like books commented on Books of Jacob by Olga Tokarczuk
I'm off for a week and I just finished what I'd been reading, I think I'm gonna give this another shot.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young …
sleepy
4 stars
Moshfegh is a reliably good writer, this was the only one of her books I've read that I wasnt extremely upset by, ha. Excellent bedtime read because its mostly about sleeping and it made me very sleepy.
Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young …
sleepy
4 stars
Moshfegh is a reliably good writer, this was the only one of her books I've read that I wasnt extremely upset by, ha. Excellent bedtime read because its mostly about sleeping and it made me very sleepy.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution by R. F. Kuang
From award-winning author R. F. Kuang comes Babel, a thematic response to The Secret History and a tonal retort to …
people like books started reading The Nation on No Map
The Nation on No Map
A call for a radical transformation in the face of widespread crisis.
The Nation on No Map examines state power, …
people like books finished reading My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
My year of rest and relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side. The alienation of an unnamed young protagonist from others is nearly …