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:
As always, the text of my review is a much more accurate representation of my feelings.
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The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy | The Restaurant at the End of the Universe …
After reading through the entire series for the second time, I'm not sure I dare to say what it's about about, if anything, but it is a fun read, and at least half the joy is in the style of writing as much as the irreverent scenes Adams illustrates.
We no longer inhabit earth and dwell under the sky: these are being replaced by …
Out of my comfort zone, but I am curious...
In an era when capitalism leaves so many to suffer and to die, with neoliberal …
This sounds so interesting!
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
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship …
Someone recommended this to me as hopepunk adjacent.
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 - …
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.
Piranesi's house is no ordinary building; its rooms are infinite, its corridors endless, its walls …
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 …
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.