Another Hopeful Fool replied to Derek Caelin's status
@DerekCaelin@bookwyrm.social I remember reading this when I was way too young, but it ended up inculcating in me just enough knowledge to somehow increase my sense of wonder.
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Mostly read around bedtime. Mostly.
He/him/they cishet white fragile trying dreamer antiracist gullible.
Since the ratings on the Bookwyrms don't impact authors' livelihoods, I feel comfortable getting more granular and using all the stars, so if you see a 3/5 rating on a book I say I liked, this is a rough breakdown of what I mean by my stars:
- ★☆☆☆☆ I was offended. I think this book has serious flaws.
- ★★☆☆☆ Not really my thing, and may have been a struggle.
- ★★★☆☆ Liked it, maybe even a lot. Might re-read.
- ★★★★☆ Loved this, and I want to talk about it.
- ★★★★★ I am obsessed. I may even be shaking right now.
As always, the text of my review is a much more accurate representation of my feelings.
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Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Julia: A Novel by Sandra Newman
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell’s 1984, from the point of view …
What a hook!
Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics As If People Mattered is a collection of …
The book that launched a thousand blog articles. I may as well read the primary source. :P
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Lord of Light by Roger Zelazny
A colony of humankind is subjugated by the First Colonists, the crew of the starship …
Someone recommended this to me as hopepunk adjacent.
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Maybe it's self-helpy, idk, but I heard it cited and it sounds interesting...
Another Hopeful Fool replied to Kal's status
@kalayo@outside.ofa.dog I love the Murderbot series so much. Enjoy!
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter Miller
Highly unusual After the Holocaust novel. In the far future, 20th century texts are preserved …
Father in law gifted me his old copy (from the 70s, and yes it smells incredible). Not sure how this one passed me by, but I love going back and visiting these sci-fi classics and seeing if I can make out the seeds of things to come.
For now it occupies an honoured position beside my bed, under the backlog stack.
Another Hopeful Fool replied to Soh Kam Yung's status
@sohkamyung@bookwyrm.social Great summary. This makes me realise that I can't quite remember the ending... Might be time for a re-read. :)
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Mood Machine by Liz Pelly
An unsparing investigation into Spotify’s origins and influence on music, weaving unprecedented reporting with incisive …
Maybe this will give me some talking points to siphon more customers away from Spotify. 👹
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
The Raven Tower by Ann Leckie
Listen. A god is speaking. My voice echoes through the stone of your master's castle. The castle where he finds …
With an introduction by David Krakauer, this prophetic 1978 essay follows legendary science fiction author …
Looks delightfully meta.
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The abandoned baobab by Ken Bugul
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read 1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
1934: A Novel by Alberto Moravia
Moravia's political fable about an Italian anti-Fascist and the frightened, suicide-seeking German girl he encounters on a boat to Capri--the …
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Life of Pi by Yann Martel
After the tragic sinking of a cargo ship, one solitary lifeboat remains bobbing on the …
Heard someone else say it's better than the movie, and I remember actually liking the movie, so I'm doubly excited to check out the book.
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed A Closed and Common Orbit by Becky Chambers (Wayfarers, #2)
Once, Lovelace had eyes and ears everywhere. She was a ship's artificial intelligence system - …
I Cried
4 stars
The dual stories, told in short, impactful chapters is such a powerful mechanism, and Becky Chambers wields it perfectly.
Both stories are riveting for their own, very different reasons. But both have to do with social justice, and personhood denied.
I found myself getting to the end of one chapter and being oh but I want to stay with this character! only to get embroiled in the other character's chapter immediately.
It's like an anti-cliffhanger. Rather than leaving you hanging, it pulls you in to the next segment, and then pulls you right back into the following.
If you liked The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet - the previous entry by Becky Chambers, then I can super-recommend this.