penwing reads (they/them) finished reading There Is No Antimemetic Division
penwing reads (they/them)
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Queer, geek, NW England, no longer late-30s.
At last am starting to re-read the Liveship Traders trilogy... This is probably my favourite of the series. So many great characters and storylines and a book input down and stopped reading once because if I stopped reading the thing about to happen would definitely not happen.
(comment on Ship of Magic)
For some reason, there are some books which seem to be a disproportionate part of my to-read pile - not in a chore-like or intimidating way, just... when you clear it from your to-read pile seems to shrink by an order of magnitude, certainly more than some other books.
Anyway, my to-read pile now feels like mere foothills rather than a mountain
Review of "The Book of Elsewhere" (2.5 stars): Shrug
Some slight spoilersWell, I persevered through about 70 pages of ableism and general shittiness and got to "alpha male" - nope.
(comment on Firefall)
"They're back now, after all - raised from the grave with the voodoo of paleogenetics, stitched together from junk genes and fossil marrow steeped in the blood of sociopaths and high-functioning autistics."
— Peter Watts (author): Firefall, pp. 21-21
Fuck you too Peter Watts
This is in a section written - for no obvious reason - as second person. It's the first page after the prologue (where the character we're expected to identify with has just been depicted as an amoral, calculating violent non-person following the removal of half his brain to cure his epilepsy. In a world where most disabilities are fixed in pre-birth genetic fixes or screenings.
Reading for #MCRSF...
The book cover, blurb and quotes (Richard Morgan - eurgh) do not fill me with confidence... Nor does the opening note about this being an omnibus edition and how that works...
And "Notes and References for..." Oh dear... Is it going to be one of those books...
(comment on Firefall)
This is my first time reading Diane Wynne Jones and... It's alright... So far...
I can't help but compare it to Le Guin's A Wizard of Earthsea: both are books of magic and fantasy aimed at children of around 9-12, but Le Guin and Wynne Jones seem to have very different approaches to what "for children" means. Le Guin for children is not to be dismissed even as an adult, but Wynne Jones for children feels more childish? Le Guin seems to be "fiction is a safe way of introducing these concepts openly" while Wynne Jones seems to be "fiction must be safe by only hinting at things"..?
(comment on Howl's Moving Castle (Howl's Moving Castle, #1), p. 93)