bookafnd finished reading Heartstopper by Alice Oseman
i really haven't been reading much for a while due for various reasons... i did read this whole web comic over the past couple days though
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i read a lot of science fiction but also a lot of other random stuff. libraries are good. i also like the little free variety of library, used bookstores, & the high seas. he/him
my fake and arbitrary rating system: - 5 stars: good. i recommend it - 4 stars: fine, but not entirely my cup of tea - 3 stars: not good, but with some redeeming qualities that might make it worth reading - 2 stars: bad, with a few redeeming qualities - 1 star: horrible
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bookafnd started reading Dracula by Bram Stoker
It tells the story of Dracula's attempt to move from Transylvania to England so he …
i started reading this with the "daily dracula" e-mail newsletter, & it only just now occurred to me to add it to my reading list. there are many editions listed on bookwyrm so i picked one semi-randomly
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Kantolope quoted Think like a Commoner by David Bollier
A new world based on fairness, participation, accountability is closer than you think if you …
There is just one significant flaw in the tragedy [of the commons] parable. It does not accurately describe a commons. Hardin's fictional scenario sets forth a system that has no boundaries around the pasture, no rules for managing it, no punishments for overuse and no distinct community of users. But that is not a commons. ... A commons requires that there be a community willing to act as a conscientious steward of a resource
bookafnd started reading The Deep by Rivers Solomon
The Deep by Rivers Solomon
Yetu holds the memories for her people—water-dwelling descendants of pregnant African slave women thrown overboard by slave owners—who live idyllic …
bookafnd reviewed A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
solarpunk road trip?
5 stars
Becky Chamber's works are rare among science fiction stories because instead of action-adventure plots they're about people talking about what it means to be alive.
The first couple of chapters felt like the plot was jumping around a hell of a lot, because they're really just backstory/preamble for the actual story
It's good that there will be a sequel because I do want to know what both Mosscap and Dex will do next
bookafnd quoted How To Take Over The World by Ryan North
A tongue-in-cheek introduction to the science of comic-book supervillainy, revealing the true potential of today’s …
People on both the demand and the supply side of crime (which is to say, cops and robbers)
bookafnd finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
bookafnd commented on A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
mosscap's philosophy is good imo
bookafnd commented on A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
I kind of wonder about the ultimate backstory for this setting. Humans just live on a moon with ocean and a single continent with no explanation
bookafnd commented on A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Becky Chambers loves to imagine an alien culture and have one of their number talk about it
@bbbhltz Yeah the plot moves along at a hell of a clip. Gives it kind of a fairy tale feel imo
bookafnd quoted A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
They pulled their pocket computer from their baggy travel trousers and flicked the screen awake. It was a good computer, given to them on their sixteenth birthday, a customary coming-of-age gift. It had a cream-colored frame and a pleasingly crisp screen, and Dex had only needed to repair it five times in the years that it had traveled in their clothes. A reliable device built to last a lifetime, as all computers were.
Dex is like, 31, so this computer is around 15 years old. plz 🥺
bookafnd started reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It's been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; centuries since they wandered, en …
bookafnd reviewed This Is How You Lose the Time War by Amal El-Mohtar
Two time-traveling agents from warring futures, working their way through the past, begin to exchange …
probably not for everyone, but it's very good
5 stars
it's a magical realist (?) romance in a science fiction Time War setting, an unusual choice, but one that works well, given how strange the consequences of warping causality would be. If you can get ahold of the audio book, it's pretty good, has different readers for Blue and Red.