I support women's rights AND women's wrongs
4 stars
one part was gnarly enough that I thought I might faint, definitely looking forward to the sequel
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28 year-old white queer lady in San Francisco. Knitter, transit geek, and sometime editor and cyclist. Planting peas and potatoes to prefigure an anarchist future. I listen to a lot of nonfiction audiobooks.
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bluestocking reviewed What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, …
a win for us fungal horror fans
4 stars
This was a fun, fast read! Overall satisfying as someone who really loves fungal-based horror.
bluestocking rated What Moves the Dead: 4 stars
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling …
bluestocking finished reading What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
From T. Kingfisher, the award-winning author of The Twisted Ones, comes What Moves the Dead, a gripping and atmospheric retelling …
bluestocking reviewed How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar …
The more things change the more they etc
4 stars
bluestocking finished reading How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
How to Hide an Empire by Daniel Immerwahr
We are familiar with maps that outline all fifty states. And we are also familiar with the idea that the …
bluestocking reviewed The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is …
there are better climate books out there
2 stars
I gave this a 2.5 on StoryGraph but I'm rounding down here because it really wasn't very good.
I think I've just read too many climate books the past few years, but this did nothing for me. Don't feel like I learned much about climate change or how to deal with it. If you're thinking about picking this up. The Heat Will Kill You First, The Treeline, A Poison Like No Other (which is technically about plastics but touches on how that relates to climate change), Kings of the Yukon, Eager: The Surprising Secret Life of Beavers, or even Islands of Abandonment or Saving Tarboo Creek all do a much better job of discussing climate change and its effects, often with more interesting and concrete science and research to back it all up, and compelling possible solutions.
bluestocking rated The Uninhabitable Earth: 3 stars
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level …
bluestocking finished reading The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
The Uninhabitable Earth by David Wallace-Wells
It is worse, much worse, than you think. If your anxiety about global warming is dominated by fears of sea-level …
bluestocking rated Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note #4): 3 stars
Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note #4) by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Death Note (English) (4))
With two Kiras on the loose, L asks Light to join the task force and pose as the real Kira …
bluestocking finished reading Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note #4) by Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note (English) (4))
Death Note, Vol. 4: Love (Death Note #4) by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Death Note (English) (4))
With two Kiras on the loose, L asks Light to join the task force and pose as the real Kira …
bluestocking rated Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note #3): 3 stars
Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note #3) by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Death Note #3)
Light is now under L's constant surveillance with microphones and camaras hidden in his room. He steps up his efforts, …
bluestocking finished reading Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note #3) by Tsugumi Ohba (Death Note #3)
Death Note, Vol. 3: Hard Run (Death Note #3) by Tsugumi Ohba, Takeshi Obata (Death Note #3)
Light is now under L's constant surveillance with microphones and camaras hidden in his room. He steps up his efforts, …
bluestocking reviewed Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means …
Is for me? is for me!
5 stars
I knew I would enjoy this, but I didn't realize quite how much. As soon as I heard it was about a trans archivist librarian I was sold, but the additions of it being a book about fandom and about how queer people discover themselves on the internet, with a little SF-specific flavor... this book is For Me, truly. I read some other people's reviews of it who didn't love it, and I get why--it's niche, and sometimes the gender politics of it aren't clean or nice. The writing felt luxurious to me, and I love a book that uses different kinds of prose formatting (scripts, chat logs, forum posts, etc.) to tell its story. I don't think it's a book that will work or even be pleasurable for most people, but god I really liked it