Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The Hologram by Cassie Thornton
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal …
This sounds so interesting!
Reviews and Comments
Mostly read around bedtime. Mostly.
He/him/they cishet white fragile trying dreamer antiracist gullible.
Since the ratings on the Bookwyrms don't impact authors' livelihoods, I feel comfortable getting more granular and using all the stars, so if you see a 3/5 rating on a book I say I liked, this is a rough breakdown of what I mean by my stars:
- ★☆☆☆☆ I was offended. I think this book has serious flaws.
- ★★☆☆☆ Not really my thing, and may have been a struggle.
- ★★★☆☆ Liked it, maybe even a lot. Might re-read.
- ★★★★☆ Loved this, and I want to talk about it.
- ★★★★★ I am obsessed. I may even be shaking right now.
As always, the text of my review is a much more accurate representation of my feelings.
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Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view …
What a hook!
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of …
The book that launched a thousand blog articles. I may as well read the primary source. :P
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship …
Someone recommended this to me as hopepunk adjacent.
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Maybe it's self-helpy, idk, but I heard it cited and it sounds interesting...
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …
I Cried
4 stars
The dual stories, told in short, impactful chapters is such a powerful mechanism, and Becky Chambers wields it perfectly.
Both stories are riveting for their own, very different reasons. But both have to do with social justice, and personhood denied.
I found myself getting to the end of one chapter and being oh but I want to stay with this character! only to get embroiled in the other character's chapter immediately.
It's like an anti-cliffhanger. Rather than leaving you hanging, it pulls you in to the next segment, and then pulls you right back into the following.
If you liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - the previous entry by Becky Chambers, then I can super-recommend this.
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed Piranesi by Susanna Clarke
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
Rapt from first page to last
5 stars
Unique and richly allegorical. You'll fall in love with the titular character.
Published in 2004, it is an alternative history set in 19th-century England around the time …
Whisked Away
5 stars
If you like the first page, you'll love the whole book. Undeniably a new cozy "comfort read" for me, with a permanent place on my bookshelf.
As a slow reader I felt like my nightly visits over several months were whisking me off to some mystical land.