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.
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.
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.