Reviews and Comments

Finally diving into this classic, needing to read it and prepare for a project I might undertake this fall.

This was awesome, cannot wait for the second book. I found some of the characters a little hard to follow, but the worldbuilding emerges to something interesting, if somewhat unbelievable.

My goal was to read some non-classics fiction last month. I failed, but can make up for it with some scifi.

This book is about a civil war! Imagine that!

Using my flights to get into some medieval European history, which I should know more about. Also, buy (and read) your moots’ books!!

No. 48 of the Modern Library list is finished. This book was originally banned for obscenity for its depictions of sexual desire in the constraints of English society, and so the ban proved the book’s point. The latter half of the book excels. One sees herself in Ursula.

Such a spectacular book with magnificent prose. I struggle to feel nostalgic about the days when I was immersed in these stories, but I am glad that there’s an antifascist chronicle of that era.

Finally jumping into Talia’s book. It’s been on my To Read for too long. I find her writing style absolutely brilliant.

Onto #48 on the Modern Library list, the first of the year.

Actually I did not hate this book, which is different than its jacket describes. Though I disagree with the conclusions, it articulates brilliantly a lot of the struggles I have had with left queer theory over the years.

This book might make me angry, but it’s nice and short and after 600 pages of B-17 history it’ll be nice for a quick read.

Superbly written even if it does at times bog down with statistics and numbers. At times it’s even wistful and romantic, and it’s an essential history of one of the most critical aspects of the war: the establishment of allied air superiority. I’m glad I found this book again.

I read this book more than 20 years ago, donated it a few years ago, and recently bought it again. I’m excited to rekindle my love of aviation history.

The book contains neither a narrative thread nor analytical tenor. Essentially 200 pages of assorted early histories of social networks and another 90 of selective, shallow views of flash in the pan creators. A miss.