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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
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Mystik U by Alisa Kwitney
Not super great, but fun to have a wizard school story from DC
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Stories Are Weapons by Annalee Newitz
A sharp and timely exploration of the dark art of manipulation through weaponized storytelling, from …
Stops and starts in my reading path; not the author's fault — I would occasionally get overwhelmed and go read something a little less heartbreaking and a little more fictional.
Ironically one of the books I read in the interim breaks was A Half Built Garden which is discussed in the final chapter!
trochee@bookwyrm.social finished reading Mirrored Heavens by Rebecca Roanhorse
The interwoven destinies of the people of Meridian will finally be determined in this stunning …
Took longer than I expected. Big elaborate world building
trochee@bookwyrm.social commented on Governable Spaces by Nathan Schneider
When was the last time you participated in an election for an online group chat …
nathanschneider.info/books/governable-spaces/
Available on line too
trochee@bookwyrm.social wants to read Underground Empire by Henry Farrell
Recommended by @kissane.bsky.social@bsky.brid.gy in no uncertain terms