Rated Torchwood: The Victorian Age 10/10
Captain Jack and Queen Victoria chasing a monster through London? A good time for me.
book
Rated Apples Never Fall 10/10
I thought this would be more of a mystery/murder novel, really it was a deep look into a family's history and background. All the main characters get some viewpoint time and they are all very well developed, plus the plot of the story is sort of gradually revealed in flashbacks and partly through the police investigation. Also several short chapters with one-time viewpoint characters (mostly neighbours or friends of the family) show up too. I liked it a lot more than I was expecting too, maybe I'll try some of her other books too.
Rated Torchwood: Uncanny Valley 8/10
Jack Harkness has hate-sex with a queer robot designed to look like a well-known billionaire? Yes, this sounds like Torchwood.
Rated Torchwood: A Postcard From Mr Colchester 7/10
<div>Wish it was longer, but for a freebie, this was amusing. I wasn't previously acquainted with this Torchwood character.</div>
Rated Tropic of Squalor: Poems 8/10
So much good stuff in here. Sad, thoughtful, reverent, maybe sometimes a little too on the nose, but that's ok too.
Rated Uncanny Magazine Issue 14: January/February 2017 4/10
<div>Though I appreciate what this mag is trying to do in terms of prioritizing different voices in fantasy writing, unfortunately it doesn't bring much that I enjoyed. I liked a few things in here well enough (the Santería poem the most, maybe), but groaned at a LOT of the stories. Overcooked prose, badly in need of trimming, bangs out a thesaurus' most "whimsical" adjectives when a simpler approach would do. One interview was better than the other.<br><br>Just not for me, but at least it wasn't all bad. And it was short. I'm sure other issues are better, but I'm not in a hurry to find out.</div>
"Write the truest sentence that you know."
That simple advice guided Ernest Hemingway (July 21, 1899 – July 2, 1961) throughout his life. A reporter, soldier, traveler, Nobel Prize winner, and master storyteller, he transformed real-life adventure into timeless literature.
#Hemingway #books #writers #literature #bookstodon @bookstodon #reading #booksky #bookstagram #today #birthday #book #bookwyrm #bookstagram #readingcommunity
Dwelle is a New York City-based book club that hosts virtual and in person events.
Https://dwelleliterature.com/ #BookClub #Books #Book #Bookstodon
Rated Necessary Trouble: Americans In Revolt 8/10
This is terrific. An overview of protest, activism and radicalism in the years since the financial crisis, weaving together a strong argument from threads like Black Lives Matter, the Tea Party, fast food and retail worker organizing and Occupy. Serious, wide-ranging and well-researched, but manages to be a brief, fast read - lots of elegantly-put truth bombs. She puts the activists she talks with in historical and economic context and illustrates how systems like the housing industry, student loans, police and courts work to distribute power upward. I like especially that this is not just disaster porn, the opening chapter to some dystopian novel - Jaffe is angry about important things but an optimist too, and she spends her time talking to the people who are fighting and winning some concrete victories. Highly recommend.
Finished reading That Time I Got Drunk and Saved a Demon
Rated Upright Women Wanted 6/10
<div>This sounds like a backhanded compliment, and maybe it is a little, but I would have liked this better watching it than reading it, I think. The premise is good, though a bit "a metaphor for our possible future!" If this is aimed at older teen readers, then that's ok, but the writing style wasn't for me. We've got "side-long smiles" and "mops" and "shocks" of hair and other well-worn descriptors that can be twee when paired with the affected "Out West" cowgirl dialect. That said, it's a short book, a good premise, and always nice to have queer characters in a Western. Just not my fav. Ymmv!<br><br>Regarding the "diverse characters" question Storygraph has, yes there are mostly queer characters in this book (again, great!), but as far as I could tell, most of the characters are white ladies. In the Southwest US. So. </div>
Rated Hickory Dickory Dock 6/10
Edited 34d ago
Rated Project Hail Mary A Novel 10/10
Edited 34d ago