Here for all the book talk, but only posting now and then about a book I want to talk about. Never not reading. Representation matters.
Always trying to build a canon without white cis male authors. Dream job: library curator.
fav genres: queer_feminist and anarchist dystopia and solarpunk sci fi exploring and dreaming worlds and togethers - after a revolution, after or fighting capitalism, white supremacy and racism, cis heteronormativity, ableism, patriarchy. I love reading cook books.
Current interests: solarpunk, emotional work, exhaustion and trauma, cooking, preserving and baking, from textile to plant fiber crafts.
Listening to audio books is reading, too.
Book talk in English and German.
Avatar alt text: my hand holding a book upside-town, nails painted in different pinks. Book title is partly visible, it's "Der Pilz am Ende der Welt" von Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing
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On a warm March night in 2083, Judy Wallach-Stevens wakes to a warning of unknown …
I have not not read, but I realize I don't want to post about every book I read. It feels stressful to me. So I want to use wyrms for posting here and then about books I want to share thoughts about
Alice Fox is a textile artist who works with material they grow on their allotment plot, they gather or find. They make fiber from plants, string from nettles or garbage.
In 'Wild Textiles' Alice Fox portraits plants and materials, documents processes. And shows their works: pieces and bowls from leaves that are sewn together, chestnut shells that carry weavings, vessels from dandelion or paper strings, the gall sculpture series - works that got me excited, and longing.
It's such an inspiring book, inviting to take into account what is around, to play, to explore, and to make art. For me it opened up room for new thoughts about the relation of crafts and arts.
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They'll do anything to be the people they were meant to be — even journey …
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak is the second book in Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable YA sf trilogy. This is an incredibly solid second book of a trilogy. (This book is up for a 2023 Lodestar award as part of the Hugo awards.)
I think part of it is that Tina takes a backseat and Rachel and Elza get more of the spotlight. (Aside from the book covers sequentially being one, two, and then three headshots indicating which number of the book it is, this second book cover features Rachel and Elza vs the first book cover showing Tina, which I think is also an indication of the emphasis here.) This book has yet more uncomfortable feelings and processing and relationship renegotiation and grief and trauma.
I honestly enjoyed this book better than the first, because it's thematically very tight. It says it right on the tin, but dreams being bigger than …
Dreams Bigger Than Heartbreak is the second book in Charlie Jane Anders' Unstoppable YA sf trilogy. This is an incredibly solid second book of a trilogy. (This book is up for a 2023 Lodestar award as part of the Hugo awards.)
I think part of it is that Tina takes a backseat and Rachel and Elza get more of the spotlight. (Aside from the book covers sequentially being one, two, and then three headshots indicating which number of the book it is, this second book cover features Rachel and Elza vs the first book cover showing Tina, which I think is also an indication of the emphasis here.) This book has yet more uncomfortable feelings and processing and relationship renegotiation and grief and trauma.
I honestly enjoyed this book better than the first, because it's thematically very tight. It says it right on the tin, but dreams being bigger than heartbreak is woven through everything. There are so many dreams that are crushed (artist, pacifist, princess librarian(!), space diplomat) and everybody has to pick themselves up through heartbreak and keep on keepin' on. There's a large cast of characters and I love how much care and growth each of them get.
Other small points I loved: * princess librarian training had big Gail Carriger's Finishing School series vibes * a disasterous polyam-related conversation * "knowledge is pain" really hits home in the age of doomscrolling, along with "if you know the answer, it becomes your responsibility" feelings * Kez gets to be genderfluid and gets new pronouns every chapter
Vom Sammeln und Bearbeiten von Gräsern, Schilfen, Algen und anderen Pflanzen, und Rinden oder Treibgut über Schling-und Flechttechniken bis zu Weidenkörben. Einfach verständliche Anleitungen, ziemlich gutes How-To-Buch, und inspirierende Projekte
oh I can't remember when I've been that immersed in a book series and a small community of choice the last time. And I"ve so much affection for every single one of those characters. After a really frustrating start with the series because I could't find access to the story. Who would have thought.
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In the fading light of a dying star, a soldier for hire searches for a …
I enjoyed this. It's a story written by a number of authors, who write a couple of chapters each. Obviously well edited too, as I didn't notice abrupt changes in style from chapter to chapter.
Imagine you had the ability to move through your own life, to revisit your past …
Content warning trans hate mentioned, no spoilers
Margins and Murmurations by Kes Otter Lieffe centers trans, queer, disabled, elder people and sex workers. Thanks for the recommendation!
I'm ever thirsting for stories with older/elder female or genderqueer role models and feeling so grateful for two main characters that rock: Because of how they live their relationship, their way of living with nonhuman beings, their being active in community, struggles against the state, dealing with trauma - because of the way Ash and Pinar simply are.
I liked the story and the educational parts about what it means to constantly have to deal with trans-hate, but also the entertaining ones about queer animals or the ones about plant remedies, or what murmurations are.
Time travel and neurodiverse time concepts are brought together, thus opening my understandings of time.
It's one of those books that make it difficult to leave the story and that make me miss the the characters.
