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@morenonatural@todon.nl Not really -- the folks at bonn.digital/ contacted me about it at one point but I'm not sure if they ever started offering as a service
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mouse started reading Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
Archive Undying by Emma Mieko Candon
War machines and AI gods run amok in The Archive Undying, national bestseller Emma Mieko Candon's bold entry into the …
mouse wants to read On Community by Casey Plett
On Community by Casey Plett
We need community to live. But what does it look like? Why does it often feel like it's slipping away? …
mouse wants to read Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
Wild Geese by Soula Emmanuel
Irish novelist Soula Emmanuel's debut novel is an intimate sprawl of memory, migration, and queer desire--charting the messy layers of …
mouse wants to read Maurice by E. M. Forster
Maurice by E. M. Forster
A tale of homosexual love in early 20th-century England, it follows Maurice Hall from his schooldays through university and beyond.
mouse started reading Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
'You have talked so often of going to the dogs – and well, here are the dogs, and you have …
mouse finished reading A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living …
mouse started reading A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
First published in 1908, A Room with a View portrays the love of a British woman for an expatriate living …
mouse finished reading The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the trenches despite eerie signs that …
mouse started reading The Warm Hands of Ghosts by Katherine Arden
During the Great War, a combat nurse searches for her brother, believed dead in the …
I'm really liking this but you'll be shocked to hear that this book about a soldier and a nurse in WWI is pretty bleak so far
mouse finished reading The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar
The Circumference of the World by Lavie Tidhar
Caught between realities, a mathematician, a book dealer, and a mobster desperately seek a notorious book that disappears upon being …
John Boswell's National Book Award-winning study of the history of attitudes toward homosexuality in the …
Appropriate gender behavior, for instance, was considered by many to be an essentially improper concern for Christians. ... The influential "Egyptian Gospel" emphasized again and again the necessity of terminating traditional patterns of sexuality, especially childbearing, and asserted that the Apocalypse would not occur until "the two [genders] become one, and man and woman are neither male nor female."
— Christianity, Social Tolerance, and Homosexuality by John Boswell (Page 158)
This was an interesting comparison to something I recall from Gender Reversals & Gender Cultures:
To the extent that generic human being is male, that is rational soul, every description of the Christian process of salvation is a form of gender crossing for women. To be saved in of a world of body, flesh, and sexuality to become an incorporeal, rational soul is to become symbolically male.
mouse finished reading The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest by Oscar Wilde
The Importance of Being Earnest, A Trivial Comedy for Serious People is a play by Oscar Wilde. First performed on …
mouse wants to read Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Rakesfall by Vajra Chandrasekera
Some stories take more than one lifetime to tell. There are wrongs that echo through the ages, friendships that outpace …
mouse wants to read The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey Tower fed her to the …