trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Alien Clay by Adrian Tchaikovsky
On the distant world of Kiln lie the ruins of an alien civilization. It’s the …
Recommended by @Ashedryden@xoxo.zone
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trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read The Memory Police by Yoko Ogawa
A haunting Orwellian novel about the terrors of state surveillance, from the acclaimed author of …
Recommended by @ben@werd.social!
A lot of Engineering Managers and leaders studied for years and years to become the …
I think I may have to get a hard copy of this one
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation …
What a phenomenal book. I feel like I learned things about queerness and things about amazing sea biology at the same time.
So much science — and science writing — is missing this kind of soul
I've been noodling my way through this book and I think that I could use the attitudes expressed here to describe what I think I do well as a technical leader at work — I want to build places where adults get to play and collaborate like kindergartners — in the best way.
So much dedication to the ideas and ideals of play and messing around as a path to creativity, not "productivity"
Libraries! The closest thing we have to fully automated luxury communism
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Delightful
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read El tercer mundo después del sol by Rodrigo Bastidas
My mom's TBR pile!
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
It’s been centuries since the robots of Panga gained self-awareness and laid down their tools; …
Libraries are the best
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, …
Wow this is committed to subverting all the robot uprising cliches and a bunch of old testament ones too
Definitely worth reading!
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading Service Model by Adrian Tchaikovsky
To fix the world they must first break it, further. Humanity is a dying breed, …
This starts out with a murder. And the butler did it. But it goes in a very different direction from there
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading The Morphology of Chinese by Jerome L. Packard
This ground-breaking study dispels the common belief that Chinese 'doesn't have words' but instead 'has …
I read this in grad school years ago and a conversation with @skinnylatte@hachyderm.io and @aud@fire.asta.lgbt brought it back to mind
trochee@bookwyrm.social started reading How Far the Light Reaches by Sabrina Imbler
A queer, mixed race writer working in a largely white, male field, science and conservation …
This is wild and fun and queer and scientific and exciting.
I love the library so much.
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Osmo Unknown and the Eightpenny Woods by Catherynne M. Valente
A fantasy following a boy journeying away from the only home he’s ever known and …
I'd call this bittersweet
But it's not really bitter and it's also not saccharine.
Nourishing, I think, feels closer
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Mechanic and the Luddite by Jathan Sadowski
Heard about this on TWSU (I think?) and from @emilyG