ansate finished reading Too Like the Lightning by Ada Palmer
"The world into which Mycroft and Carlyle have been born is as strange to our …
I’ll just put a hold on the next one right now
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ansate commented on Feminism Is for Everybody by bell hooks
I loved this! I want to hand out copies, i want to read more modern versions, i want everyone to be this excited about getting rid of sexism
ansate commented on Dear Committee Members by Julie Schumacher
The conceit is old already, and i have no sympathy for our one character, the author of the letters.
ansate commented on Carry On by Rainbow Rowell
Simon Snow is the worst Chosen One who's ever been chosen.
That's what his roommate, …
The beginning was just ok, but i am at the point now where i can’t start reading it because i have to go do something else besides finish a book tonight
ansate commented on The Best American Science Fiction and Fantasy 2021 by Veronica Roth
This year’s selection of science fiction and fantasy stories, chosen by series editor John Joseph …
So first, i own this because i got online and bought every book that had a Meg Elison story in it. I ALSO bought Big Girl, so I have The Pill twice. But it’s an excellent story and I recommend it.
ansate commented on Death at Victoria Dock (Phryne Fisher, #4) by Kerry Greenwood
Book Hugh Collins is lovely
ansate commented on The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
When a single word tells you that something hugely sad will have happened
ansate finished reading Nimona by ND Stevenson
"Surgida originalmente como un comic web (una historieta publicada en la red), llega ahora la …
Comic books. I can cry about a whole story in about an hour
ansate commented on Furiously Happy by Jenny Lawson
I generally enjoy her, but i seem to be very tired of humorously arguing with one’s spouse. Letting this one go.
ansate commented on Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini
An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice …
Usually when a novel wrecks me, i want to push through and finish it and be done. This one destroys me every chapter, once a week or so.
ansate commented on Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
In London, the past is never dead. It only lies sleeping... Martin Chorley - aka …
Look, i LIKE Terry Pratchett and Suzy (Eddie) Izzard and the film Sneakers. But i feels a but weird to have references to all of them crammed into a book somehow? Too…. Pandering to the audience maybe. With a side of begging to be outdated
ansate commented on Lies Sleeping by Ben Aaronovitch
In London, the past is never dead. It only lies sleeping... Martin Chorley - aka …
When you realize this is actually copaganda. Feels bad. Will probably finish this one.
ansate commented on Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini
An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice …
Finished a chapter and just crying about what must happen next
ansate commented on Twice Born by Margaret Mazzantini
An internationally bestselling, acutely moving story set amidst the atrocities of the Bosnian war, Twice …
Still chipping away at this sad but beautiful book.
ansate commented on Below the Root by Zilpha Keatley Snyder
Below the Root (1975, Atheneum Books)
Chosen to become one of a group of civil and religious leaders ruling the land …
One of my favorite books as a kid was The Velvet Room by this same author. I feel like no one else has ever heard of it.