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Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? 4 How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye? 5 You hypocrite, first take the plank out of your own eye, and then you will see clearly to remove the speck from your brother’s eye.
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Physical advance copies for Fran Wilde’s A Philosophy of Thieves and Jen Sookfong Lee!
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Alright. Going to try dipping my toes in again.
Current physical at home reads and the immediate tbr pile.
lol yeah this is maybe gonna be May
Chilling with a good novella, and Gundam Wing is playing in the background at this coffee place.
Brains are fuckin silly yall.
There’s some real good books I’ve read so far this year though, and I am going to try to post them here between now and the end of the month in a low pressure kind of way.
Hi! Am currently deep in autistic burnout and I need to minimize demands on myself. What this means - I’m going to try to resume posting reviews here in April, hopefully simultaneously with when I put them up on Storygraph.
This is a story being told by one of the nameless servants in the house and focuses on the parts of the Bluebeard myth that we don't hear much of - the dead wives, the servants who witnessed it and couldn't stop it, and essentially a choir of ghosts of the dead
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This was still a great journey down the river, a great conclusion to what came in the book before, and was a hell of a library book
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And if like me you're reading this in the first few months of 2025, let it serve as reassurance that yes, while the next four years are going to fucking suck, the work is being done, and has been done, and will continue to be done, and here's a way of doing it.
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This is essentially a mourning of a rejection and of possible futures that didn't happen
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Set in a near future where surely a THIRD border wall will save us from the menace at the southern border (lmfao)
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A book that is half about the absolutely nightmareish surveillance apps that schools can sometimes install on student computers, and the other half is about systematically hacking it to inflict misery on the people who originally implemented the app
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Today, lunch is hiding in the quiet cube
Also features the couple you know should absofuckinglutely not have a baby, especially when one of them decides to go isolationist farmer while being absolutely terrible at everything in his life
Fairly solid romance book that uses a neat hook hook (what if the paintings all came to life at the art museum after hours, and one fell in love with a lady who's a janitor there?) adds in the twist of the pandemic, single motherhood, and a heist, and doesn't entirely deal with the fantasy setup….
We get to see the Sovan empire a few centuries down the line, now in full fantasy pre-Industrial Revolution in terms of soldiering and bureaucracy, only now the NotIllithids are coming to destroy them all and everything is going to suck for these characters
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It’s been a shitty week. These things happen. I’ll be back to catching up soon! For now, coffee and reading and vibes
The seal child is joining me for reading. Currently on the screen is John Wiswell’s Wearing the Lion. Everything is Extremely Fine
The author I think also doesn't quite realize how much bot effects are playing into our reality already, but he issues a strong and timely warning that I'm about 70% sure is being ignored by those in tech, who are more concerned with "number go up".
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Our duology wrapping book focuses on Javier's POV, as he starts chasing down loose ends as things seemingly implode with Amy, on just about every possible level.
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Hell of a short story that actually focuses on class dynamics and predatory institutions in the context of a wizarding school.
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This feels like the halftime climax; now that Alice and Thomas are back, we get what is supposed to be a new table setting with a family reunion that ends up being time for the maniacal omnicidal fundamentalist cult to get messy
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Another gorgeous short story that plays on post apocalyptic communities in the vein of the Giver, with some absolutely amazing naming conventions, and leaves me wanting more.
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An absolutely gorgeous, dark mirror of a story where a girl sees her sister getting everything she wants, and then gets to have it for herself, and just maybe it isn't everything it seems.
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