phildini, while reading finished reading Radiant Sin by Katee Robert
Things... are heating up 😎
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I read this a few pages at a time, and by doing so begin to reflect what Steen is saying about tasting wine -- trying to have general thoughts is hard-to-impossible, because so much is tied up in the experience of the doing.
phildini, while reading finished reading Love Letters to Jane's World by Paige Braddock
This essential Jane's World collection debuts twenty years after Jane Wyatt first appeared in Paige …
Cute!
phildini, while reading stopped reading River Woman, River Demon by Jennifer Givhan
Award-winning Mexican-American and Indigenous author Jennifer Givhan brings us an exquisitely written, spell-binding psychological thriller …
Content warning Mid-plot twist that soured me
This book opened so well, the world-building and the characters were immediately gripping, and the book seemed to have something to say in the commingling of magic and racial politics in the U.S.
But then an infidelity subplot popped up halfway through, and I just couldn’t anymore.
I have not given up on this book, but I’m definitely taking it at a thoughtful pace.
phildini, while reading reviewed Everybody by Olivia Laing
Where do we go from here?
3 stars
Everybody started with such a strong premise. A new thesis on bodily autonomy and how it relates to society was going to be woven in front of our eyes, centering around a contemporary of Freud’s who preached sexual revolution as a foundation to societal revolution. The first few chapters are electrifying; gripping in a way that few nonfiction books are.
But then… perhaps Laing was trying, in her own book, to reinforce the arc of Reich’s own life. Where the second half of Reich’s life saw him slowly relegated to irrelevancy on the fringes of the scientific frontier, Everybody seems to meander through it’s own second half, never quite reaching the thesis hinted at in the early chapters.
I was left with some interesting historical discoveries, but no framework to put them in.
phildini, while reading finished reading Wicked Beauty by Katee Robert
I was so curious if this was going to turn into the Hunger Games, but nope! Good. More poly triads in media, please.
phildini, while reading commented on The Milky Way by Moiya McTier
Apparently the Milky Way loves animation, and so is now my favorite Galaxy
phildini, while reading commented on Tao Te Ching by Ursula K. Le Guin
No other English translation of this greatest of the Chinese classics can match Ursula Le …
Reading this book is like swimming in deep water
phildini, while reading commented on The Milky Way by Moiya McTier
Already very fun. The tone was a bit grating at first, but now I’m into it
phildini, while reading finished reading Everybody by Olivia Laing
I have so much more to say, but for now I’m satisfied to be done
phildini, while reading commented on Love Letters to Jane's World by Paige Braddock
This essential Jane's World collection debuts twenty years after Jane Wyatt first appeared in Paige …
So far, fun!
phildini, while reading started reading Love Letters to Jane's World by Paige Braddock
This essential Jane's World collection debuts twenty years after Jane Wyatt first appeared in Paige …
Reading more comics starts now
phildini, while reading commented on Thud! by Terry Pratchett (Discworld, Book 34)
Koom Valley? That was where the trolls ambushed the dwarfs, or the dwarfs ambushed the …
This book remains my ultimate comfort food.
phildini, while reading commented on Everybody by Olivia Laing
The number of disparate stories the author is pulling together to weave a narrative about what it means to be free in a body is stunning