mouse finished reading System Collapse by Martha Wells(duplicate)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I'm ready for the show now (I really hope it's good)
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mouse stopped reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
this just isn't doing it for me
mouse started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
Faced with a coming apocalypse, a woman must reckon with her past to solve a …
I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
"God spoke to me, he says he wants me to tell you about all the times I was right and you were wrong"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
this is a wild read and it's sort of comforting that a lot of her contemporaries, even in her account, seem to also be going "Margery, what?"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe would have killed it on Tumblr
mouse finished reading Abarat by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something …
As a kid I found this so engaging but on re-read it felt flat and aimlessly zany
mouse reviewed The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey …
Fantastic Planet does the Book of Kells
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This book is so visual and imaginative, and thrives when walking you through the surreal, psychedelic, illuminated manuscript of a world. But while it was always interesting, I found it hard to stay engaged with the story at times, particularly in the middle. The ending compelled me, and I wish I'd had more of that connection to the plot and characters through the rest of the book.
mouse started reading Baking with Fortitude by Dee Rettali
It seems like the main idea in this book is leaving cake batter at room temperature for a couple days to ferment before baking it, I am extremely interested
mouse commented on As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
I have to interject here, a little over half way through, that I do not recommend this book. Just stick with Rats, Lice, and History.
mouse started reading As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
You’ll be pleased and relieved to hear that, based on the first few pages, this book is completely unhinged
mouse reviewed Spectred Isle by KJ Charles
Ivy
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Growing up, English ivy was an acutely troublesome invasive species -- in the region generally and in my family's yard specifically. My neighbors had, foolishly, planted it, and it would grow up trees and deprive them of their nutrients, and send vines into crevices of buildings, damaging them. At a formative age, I learned about this: how ivy sends these little creeping tendrils into all the small holes it finds. And I would sit in the back yard, imagining the ivy crawling up my body, planting little roots in my pores and feeding on me until I was a desiccated husk.
The point being, I had a hard time with the fact that ivy showing up was a good thing in this story, because to me the appearance of an inexplicable ivy leaf could not be a more ominous sign. So if you have my extremely specific aversion to the …
Growing up, English ivy was an acutely troublesome invasive species -- in the region generally and in my family's yard specifically. My neighbors had, foolishly, planted it, and it would grow up trees and deprive them of their nutrients, and send vines into crevices of buildings, damaging them. At a formative age, I learned about this: how ivy sends these little creeping tendrils into all the small holes it finds. And I would sit in the back yard, imagining the ivy crawling up my body, planting little roots in my pores and feeding on me until I was a desiccated husk.
The point being, I had a hard time with the fact that ivy showing up was a good thing in this story, because to me the appearance of an inexplicable ivy leaf could not be a more ominous sign. So if you have my extremely specific aversion to the plant, be aware I guess?
mouse started reading Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through …
I'm excited this is out!
mouse finished reading The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
Welcome to... THE THURSDAY MURDER CLUB
In a peaceful retirement village, four unlikely friends meet …
This was delightful
mouse commented on Rats, Lice and History by Hans Zinsser
The classic chronicle of the impact disease and plagues have had on history and society …
I am over 160 pages into this book which is ostensibly a biography of typhus, and so far it has covered at length:
- the nature of art,
- whether or not he should write this book,
- the origins and fundamentally parasitic nature of life,
- the role of epidemic disease in various periods of history, each section of which he concludes that there's no reason to think typhus was present at that time.
It's the perfect book; it's like he wrote this book just for me.