Reviews and Comments

Been wanting to dive more fully into this for a bit

Airport pickup

This should be mandatory reading for every organizer. What an excellent reference!

It’s overdue for me to read this. On my way to Budapest Pride is a perfect time to start.

This was actually quite good. It’s vivid and gripping, and though some of the language choices are a enough to jar you out of the story, the narrative is compelling. It would make a good film.

This was a book club option from a Discord I very briefly was in; the actual book they chose turned out to be tenderqueer replit bullshit and I hope this one is better.

This is timely and clear. Butler avoids their usual heavy, dense language and lays out a broad spread of analysis on the contemporary attacks on gender. It ends with a call for solidarity, and is highly relevant for our time.

Back on my gender theory bullshit!

This book would be tremendously improved if it engaged with the idea of capitalism even a little bit

Let’s see what this book has to say about AI writing…

The modern reader cannot help but be distracted by the fatphobia that infects the root of this novel. If that can be seen past, the book stands as a remarkable story about the inevitable courses of life, told through the stories of two sisters who could not be more different, but who nevertheless end up the same.

This didn’t take very long (it’s a small 50 pages), but damn are these essays still on point.

I guess this is a thing I should read eventually, so why not now?

On to #87 on the Modern Library list, this one I was lucky to find at a local used bookseller, as the book is awaiting further printing in the US, evidently.

Another techno-true crime thriller, this one is a fascinating and illuminating read for anyone interested in privacy and digital safety.