Every day is a good day to read a trans author.
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Trans Figured: On Being A Transgender Person in a Cisgender World by Sophie Grace Chappell
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Vi er ikke på barrikaderne, ej heller er det kampe i gaderne, og blodet flyder overhovedet ikke.
Men vi har brug for ikke aktivt at støtte Broligarkerne, så derfor holder vi flyttedag og glæder os umådeligt til at udfolde os på Bluesky/pixelfed.
Vi har alt for mange bøger, meninger, plader, fordomme, plakater, etc.
Vi har alt for meget passion, det skal gå ud over nogen. Vi håber at I vil følge med.
We are not on the barricades, nor are there fighting in the streets, and blood isn’t flowing at all.
But we do not need to actively support the Broligarchs, so we are moving and looking forward to getting bookish at Bluesky/Pixelfed.
We have too many books, opinions, records, prejudices, posters, etc.
We have too much passion, it has to affect someone. We hope you will follow.
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Men vi har brug for ikke aktivt at støtte Broligarkerne, så derfor holder vi flyttedag og glæder os umådeligt til at udfolde os på Bluesky/pixelfed.
Vi har alt for mange bøger, meninger, plader, fordomme, plakater, etc.
Vi har alt for meget passion, det skal gå ud over nogen. Vi håber at I vil følge med.
We are not on the barricades, nor are there fighting in the streets, and blood isn’t flowing at all.
But we do not need to actively support the Broligarchs, so we are moving and looking forward to getting bookish at Bluesky/Pixelfed.
We have too many books, opinions, records, prejudices, posters, etc.
We have too much passion, it has to affect someone. We hope you will follow.
#Bøger #Books #Book #BooksBooksBooks #BøgerDuVilDeleMedAndre #Bogsnak #LæsLæsLæs #Læsehest #Bogorm #Bookworm #Bibliophile #Booklover #Booktography #BooksAndBrothers #GladBibliotekar #HappyLibrarian
New #TarotCard- The 3 of cups with Mono flanked by her puppet pals Cydroidobot and Ratsack.
Crooked Seeds is now available as paperback!
Look out for it in your bookstores and online
”Crooked Seeds” leaves us reeling’
The Washington Post
‘…stark, darkly humorous…Deirdre is such a perfectly realised fictional creation.'
The Observer
Soda & Chunks #TarotCards, featuring the Spork Armadillo and Gorblecch the Unusually Intelligent Queezimp.
Here's a 3 card #SifillisSpread (selected by random number generator). What does it mean?
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As close as the #Sifillis franchise gets to political.
BOOK REVIEW
/5
Eve and Nate are married and teach at the same school. However their marriage is on the rocks and a student of theirs, Addie, is infatuated with Nate. But Addie has a history of involvement with another teacher and a dark side that is slowly revealed. The storyline is predictable until the end and that's where it doesn't quite work for me. I'm glad the story took a few turns but unfortunately it was too much and for me, far-fetched. This was my second McFadden read and I enjoyed the first, D Ward, much more.
I didn't want to ruin the ending for others, but anybody else feel the same way?
More reviews at http://jturiano.com/book-reviews-fiction.htm
#SciFi Worth Reading: Phantom Station #BookReview - M. Pax
Gripping science fiction. I found a new favorite author!
https://www.mpaxauthor.com/scifi-worth-reading-phantom-station-bookreview/
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I will try to bring all my posts from insta over here. At least the ones from my reading the world project. I try to read at least 2 books from each country.
This was my first book by a South African author.
The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer.
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This was my first book by a South African author.
The Late Bourgeois World by Nadine Gordimer.
#ReadingAllTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #WorldReadingChallenge #WorldReader #ReadingFromSouthAfrica #SouthAfricanAuthors #NadimeGordimer #ILoveBooks #BooksBooksBooks
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Les Miserables, by Victor Hugo, is a 1400 page novel that defies description. Originally published in serial form, I read the Everyman’s edition, which described it as the story of Jean Valjean, and insofar as his story anchors the narrative throughout, that is an accurate description.
But the novel is really epic in proportion, weaving many characters lives together while trying to capture the moment of revolution and the lead up to it.
It is a deep reflection on society and humanity, starting from a reflection on the impact that those who act selflessly can have on the community around them, the corrupting rather than reformative power of the modern carceral system, how a cruel society creates the very people it identifies as aberrations.
While its digressions can at times become tedious, the narrative overall is captivating, propulsive, and in terms of its social commentary, remains deeply relevant to our society today. Perhaps because, despite our striving, we remain in the modern era that Hugo wrote about.
I’ll be spending the next two months on this momentous novel. Come along if you like.
QOTD: Have you read Les Miserables?
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But the novel is really epic in proportion, weaving many characters lives together while trying to capture the moment of revolution and the lead up to it.
It is a deep reflection on society and humanity, starting from a reflection on the impact that those who act selflessly can have on the community around them, the corrupting rather than reformative power of the modern carceral system, how a cruel society creates the very people it identifies as aberrations.
While its digressions can at times become tedious, the narrative overall is captivating, propulsive, and in terms of its social commentary, remains deeply relevant to our society today. Perhaps because, despite our striving, we remain in the modern era that Hugo wrote about.
I’ll be spending the next two months on this momentous novel. Come along if you like.
QOTD: Have you read Les Miserables?
#worldliterature #Frenchliterature #cozyread #VictorHugo #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #lesmiserables #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
BOOK REVIEW
/5
Marley and three of her closest friends are given a dare, but what starts as a dangerous high school prank, quickly turns deadly. The two teenage couples decide to cover up the crime, and we all know that never goes well. It's a familiar storyline, but this one has plenty of twists and turns. Marley is targeted by an unknown caller who may know what they did. The tension builds as her friends fear she will go to the police. As her friends begin to turn on her, she has to rely on an ex-boyfriend for help but she's not sure even he can be trusted. When the police come knocking on her door, she is forced to act quickly. The ending wasn't what I expected and that was refreshing.
More reviews at 
https://jturiano.com/book-reviews-fiction.htm
“It was a future they couldn’t quite see, where the richness of all they had brought to the great land of promise would one day be zapped into nothing, the glorious tapestry of their history boiled down to a series of ten-second TV commercials, empty holidays, and sports games filled with the patriotic fluff of red, white, and blue, the celebrants cheering the accompanying dazzle without any idea of the horrible struggles and proud pasts of their forebears who had made their lives so easy.”
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Bad Idea by @felicestevens is now available!
What to expect: 
MM Romance
Boss/employee Wealth gap Secret past Hurt/comfort Opposites Attract One night stand then—uh oh, he's my bossNerd now owns a football team
I’m sure you all have seen the TikTok debates about whether books are political or not. In the case of José Rizal and his body of work, his two novels were not only resoundingly political and anticolonial, but Rizal himself was executed by the Spanish colonial regime in the Philippines not because he was a part of the planning of the Philippine Revolution of 1896 (He was not), but because of his novels. The military claimed his novels had incited the revolution.
Imagine being such a powerful storyteller that a corrupt state decides to execute Yu on the grounds that your novels moved people to action. That is the power of storytelling and literature.
Of course, this story remains deeply resonant and relevant not only to the Philippines, but in the U.S., where efforts to ban books rage on, revealing how threatened some officials feel by the power of storytelling even as we’re told that studying literature is frivolous.
Remember José Rizal, and take some comfort in knowing the power of words and the power of communication to effect change.
There is undoubtedly more to be said about the relationship between the novel and the nation, but I’ll leave this month’s series at: I hope you’ll consider reading Rizal.
#worldliterature #Filipinoliterature #cozyread #joserizal #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #nolimetangere #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
Imagine being such a powerful storyteller that a corrupt state decides to execute Yu on the grounds that your novels moved people to action. That is the power of storytelling and literature.
Of course, this story remains deeply resonant and relevant not only to the Philippines, but in the U.S., where efforts to ban books rage on, revealing how threatened some officials feel by the power of storytelling even as we’re told that studying literature is frivolous.
Remember José Rizal, and take some comfort in knowing the power of words and the power of communication to effect change.
There is undoubtedly more to be said about the relationship between the novel and the nation, but I’ll leave this month’s series at: I hope you’ll consider reading Rizal.
#worldliterature #Filipinoliterature #cozyread #joserizal #currentread #whatimreading #bibliophile #classicnovel #classicliterature #comparativeliterature #complit #comparativelit #classicbookstagram #nolimetangere #bookstagram #booklover #theleveragedphd #bookstagrammer #pleasureread #studyinspo #booksbooksbooks #bookflatlay #classicscommunity #bibliophile #bigbooks #academicaesthetic #grayacademia #darkacademia #academiaaesthetic #cozyaesthetic
NK Jemisin is a genius. The Broken Earth Trilogy were my favorite books last year.
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Interrupting my usual programming to say that I read my first ever graphic novel/memoir/anything! Thanks to @tenspeedpress for sending me This Beautiful Ridiculous City by Kay Sohini, which finally prompted me to engage with this genre.
As a former urban literary scholar this was a return to my urban literary roots, and just a beautiful representation of the city overall. Full disclosure that Kay and I were at Stony Brook University doing our Ph.D.s in different lit departments around the same time. We’ve worked together before (she invited me to present on an MLA panel on careers back when I was about a year into my new life in publishing).
Reading books by people you know (even tangentially) is always a unique experience because you’re seeing the world through the eyes of someone that you’ve met, engaged with. It’s just a really different experience than reading works by a stranger (which is the majority of my reading).
What is really stunning about this work is that it isn’t just a book, it’s a beautifully conceived object. The artwork and color palette are stunning. I immediately felt like I’ll definitely reread and return to this book to take in the visuals and the nuances of the story.
It’s also a book I could see leaving out on my coffee table, or some other flat surface that needs a little life. It’s so vibrant, and a book I could see myself just thumbing through casually to brighten my day.
It deals with serious life challenges, but I think the seriousness and introspection of the work is offset by the brightness and vibrancy of the artwork.
10/10 would recommend. (And believe it or not I read a TON and don’t recommend or post about a large percentage of what I read).
QOTD: have you read any graphic books?
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As a former urban literary scholar this was a return to my urban literary roots, and just a beautiful representation of the city overall. Full disclosure that Kay and I were at Stony Brook University doing our Ph.D.s in different lit departments around the same time. We’ve worked together before (she invited me to present on an MLA panel on careers back when I was about a year into my new life in publishing).
Reading books by people you know (even tangentially) is always a unique experience because you’re seeing the world through the eyes of someone that you’ve met, engaged with. It’s just a really different experience than reading works by a stranger (which is the majority of my reading).
What is really stunning about this work is that it isn’t just a book, it’s a beautifully conceived object. The artwork and color palette are stunning. I immediately felt like I’ll definitely reread and return to this book to take in the visuals and the nuances of the story.
It’s also a book I could see leaving out on my coffee table, or some other flat surface that needs a little life. It’s so vibrant, and a book I could see myself just thumbing through casually to brighten my day.
It deals with serious life challenges, but I think the seriousness and introspection of the work is offset by the brightness and vibrancy of the artwork.
10/10 would recommend. (And believe it or not I read a TON and don’t recommend or post about a large percentage of what I read).
QOTD: have you read any graphic books?
#bookstagram #bookstodon #booksbooksbooks #booklover #bibliophile #bibliophilelife #graphicmemoir #bookreview #bookreviewer #bookish #bookishlife #bookishlifestyle #bookflatlay #bookdecor #phdlife #postdoclife #theleveragedphd #academicaesthet