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.
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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.
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Rated Long Live the Tribe of Fatherless Girls 10/10
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Rated Project Hail Mary A Novel 10/10
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Wants to read The Corner That Held Them
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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>
Rated UNIT: Silenced 9/10
<div>The Silents are definitely among the most creepy Doctor Who villains. Best UNIT standalone I think I've heard, tbh.</div>
Rated They Came to Baghdad 6/10