Sometimes I can‘t tell whether an author‘s writing reminds me of other media, or if a shared narrator brings those previously-listened-to titles more easily to mind, but I‘m getting hints of N K Jemisin‘s Broken Earth for sure, as well as Octavia Butler and Martha Wells.
I‘m enjoying this series so much more, Marco Polo book clubbing it with a friend 😎
“There had been another girl who grew up alongside Harrow, but she had died before Harrow was born.” THIS LINE EVERY TIME
Okay, I finished the Tiffany Aching books (RIP Sir TP) and reread the Monk and Robot books besides listening to Gideon before remembering to post here. I‘ve been mostly off social media since changing jobs and it‘s been kind of amazing?
pickNeeded something familiar but not too well known, and this was perfect. Leaning into my own witch era and Tiffany is excellent company.
Anyone else doing #TransRightsReadathon? Anyone know Sim_Bookstagrams_Badly or know if they‘re over here under another name?
This one features at least a trans main character, there may be others I don‘t recall from my first time through several years ago.
Love the repeated callbacks to Bailey‘s early indignation that only girls get rescued from their mundane lives in stories.
It‘s been a rotten week, y‘all. Trying to enjoy something while exhausted by a pet health crisis and the general state of the world. What‘s your Friday night got going for it?
Loving the found family elements in particular this time around. 🫶🏼
SHE PUBLISHED THE DECK, AND I FOUND IT ACCIDENTALLY. Returning to the night circus, on audio this time, to celebrate.
Oh! I almost forgot: today was my #Litsyversary, 7 years along with a handful of other long-haulers. It‘s been fun to be part of Litsy in so many different capacities over the years!
Someone was not pleased with me for being away overnight. I‘m trying to make amends.
“Who is to say that plutonium is more powerful than, say, rice? One takes away a million lives, the other saves a hundred times as many.”
so-soIt feels almost unfair to rate this only 3 stars because it‘s still leagues better than so many works in this realm but compared to the rest of the series I found it very meh.
“…the air is hot with summer and the sky is bruised with the promise of a storm.”
pickOff to a great start with all these ~4h audios 😁
Reread, I‘m in a rut and a new one of these came out so I‘m doing the series. I‘m also still mid-Middlegame? 🤷🏻♀️
“When she breathed, it sounded like custard sloshing around in an air conditioner.”
😳 😂
pickThis one was DARK, holy hell! 🤣 My youngest board member, 19yo, recommended this to me. A great read but not my favorite listen; the narrator does voices and they grate.
Giving this another go as it devastated my partner and I found myself less annoyed with the blatant enemy to lovers energy the second time. Maybe not being at college with 20 year olds who don‘t realize it‘s a trope helped. 🙃
This feels aesthetic today, and I can listen to the whole thing while running errands. #HurricaneHenri
Another one from the looooooong-time TBR. #readathon @DeweysReadathon #24hourreadathon
pickIt‘s so interesting to me that certain tropes already date even LGBTQ+ books written by queer and trans people. I wonder if Daniels would have gone easier on the trauma details if she were writing this today. #readathon @DeweysReadathon
I‘ve only sort-of participated in #readathons since being back in school, but I‘ll of course tag my normal everyday reading for @DeweysReadathon 🤓 #QueerBookClub pick for@to@orrow‘s meeting.
“Noble would have been the man who pronounced these words; the woman who uttered them was sublime.”
I just listened to/read this a couple of years ago but I don‘t at all remember being so contemptuous of Guinevere as I feel on this re-listen. I was very empathetic at first bc I saw in her some CPTSD stuff, but the hyper religious response is triggering me in a whole other way.
Listening at 2.0 speed to finish a couple more books before the year is out 😂
“To paraphrase a prophet: Letters are structures, not events. Yours give me a place to live inside.”
pickFinished the audio and immediately bought a hard copy to reread. Haven‘t stopped thinking about this one since I started it the first time.
“I don‘t know whether good times are coming back again. But I know that won‘t matter if we don‘t survive these times.”
“Dead anarchists make martyrs, you know, and keep living for centuries. But absent ones can be forgotten.”
“It is hard to swear when sex is not dirty and blasphemy does not exist.”
From one seven sisters scholarship kid to another... 😂
#readathon #24hourreadathon
My popcorn equivalent tonight: pan-fried mushroom medley 🍄 How‘s everyone‘s #readathon going?? #24HourReadathon @DeweysReadathon
Hammock time for #24hourReadathon cramming of this one for queer book club tomorrow! @DeweysReadathon #readathon
I slept until 10 because I was up until 4 so I‘m counting the hour of reading I did before bed but after midnight 😁 reading this for my Writing Utopias class and am going to be cranky when I get to the halfway point and have to stop so I don‘t spoil anything for others if I read on 😬 But, I have all of Rubyfruit Jungle to read by 11:30 tomorrow for book club. #readathon @DeweysReadathon #24HourReadathon
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