Another Hopeful Fool wants to read A Time to Kill by John Grisham
In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial …
I guess I should read some more of the normie canon
Reviews and Comments
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 reviewed Juice by Tim Winton
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, …
Hmm
2 stars
Not sure how I feel about this one yet. The end, I don't know, it leaves a lot of questions.
Not sure how I feel about this one yet. The end, I don't know, it leaves a lot of questions.
NOVELLAS:
- "THREAT ASSESSMENT" by Matthew Kressel and Mercurio D. Rivera
- "SOUL REBEL" …
Kind of gave up on these ever gracing my doorstep again. Shame as part of the merger that the material quality joins Analog et al as a more temporary/disposable product (the old s&sf mag was sturdier than many a $30 paperback).
Let's see what the creamy filling has to offer, though...
Kind of gave up on these ever gracing my doorstep again. Shame as part of the merger that the material quality joins Analog et al as a more temporary/disposable product (the old s&sf mag was sturdier than many a $30 paperback).
Let's see what the creamy filling has to offer, though...
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Ancestral Night by Elizabeth Bear (duplicate)
I've only read one small quote and had my eyes feather over the jacket, picking up just enough words to be sure this book is entirely up my alley. 👀
I've only read one small quote and had my eyes feather over the jacket, picking up just enough words to be sure this book is entirely up my alley. 👀
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Frank, no ordinary sixteen-year-old, lives with his father outsIde a remote Scottish village. Their life …
Not sure what this is actually like, but it sounds super interesting!
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
The security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back in Fugitive …
Another winner
3 stars
Loved the detective/investigatory angle. Reminds me of some of the old Asimov robot stories in a way, while introducing more of the politics and ethos of Preservation.
Pleasant little bite of Murderbot with some great Pin-Lee moments, but definitely not as heavy (plot wise, or--speaking subjectively--emotionally) as some of the other entries.
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read The Original by Brandon Sanderson
Hugo Award–winning authors Brandon Sanderson and Mary Robinette Kowal team up in this exclusive audio-first …
Love these super conceptual scifis!
Another Hopeful Fool started reading Juice by Tim Winton
Two fugitives, a man and a child, drive across a stony desert. As dawn breaks, …
Friend who's a big activist lent this to me. Excited to get into my first actual cli-fi novel.
The presentation is really interesting; super minimal, no quotation marks or chapter headings -- it's all just from the protagonist's perspective/retelling. No exposition that I can see, you just have to figure out what things are by context.
Reading kind of like a diary so far.
Friend who's a big activist lent this to me. Excited to get into my first actual cli-fi novel.
The presentation is really interesting; super minimal, no quotation marks or chapter headings -- it's all just from the protagonist's perspective/retelling. No exposition that I can see, you just have to figure out what things are by context.
Reading kind of like a diary so far.
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed Sex, or the Unbearable by Lauren Berlant
Sex, or the Unbearable is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two of …
Bearable
2 stars
I enjoyed it. Though even on close reading, it went absolutely over my head. I feel like this book does its readers a minor disservice by not recommending some prerequisite reading.
I struggled through most of the book to connect the phantasmic imagery to real scenes or projects, but maybe that's me missing the point--maybe the point of this book is the dialectic between two experts, focusing on fundamental structures of their field?
I don't know what book I would recommend as an intro to queer literary studies, but it's not this one.
I do think this book would probably be great if read by a group, or studied by a class, but as a solitary endeavour it's a bit of a bear.
So like the titular subject, probably better experienced with friends.
I enjoyed it. Though even on close reading, it went absolutely over my head. I feel like this book does its readers a minor disservice by not recommending some prerequisite reading.
I struggled through most of the book to connect the phantasmic imagery to real scenes or projects, but maybe that's me missing the point--maybe the point of this book is the dialectic between two experts, focusing on fundamental structures of their field?
I don't know what book I would recommend as an intro to queer literary studies, but it's not this one.
I do think this book would probably be great if read by a group, or studied by a class, but as a solitary endeavour it's a bit of a bear.
So like the titular subject, probably better experienced with friends.
Another Hopeful Fool wants to read Dungeon Crawler Carl by Matt Dinniman (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
The apocalypse will be televised! Welcome to the first book in the wildly popular and …
People at my work have said this is very fun
Another Hopeful Fool started reading The day after tomorrow by Allan Folsom
In Paris, an American doctor spots the man who murdered his father and he tries …
Continuing my tradition of reading whatever free books just come across my path, this was in a pile I found earlier last season. I have 0 expectations.
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed Operation Baracuda by Tom Clancy (Tom Clancy's splinter cell)
He is quiet, invisible, deadly--and the newest weapon on the front lines of a technologically …
Mission Fish
2 stars
All over the place. Fun and exciting at times, achingly dull and cliched at others. Totally unbelievable, many chase scenes, shallow romance subplot, male gaze-y descriptions of every female character, much gadgets, kind of a lot of product placement, and what feels like a denouement that was hacked into a press piece for some stealth watercraft with an eye-rolling acronym.
I won't lie and say I didn't enjoy it, but there wasn't exactly a lot of soy on the bean on this one. It's a Hollywood blockbuster that goes down easy if you don't think too hard.
All over the place. Fun and exciting at times, achingly dull and cliched at others. Totally unbelievable, many chase scenes, shallow romance subplot, male gaze-y descriptions of every female character, much gadgets, kind of a lot of product placement, and what feels like a denouement that was hacked into a press piece for some stealth watercraft with an eye-rolling acronym.
I won't lie and say I didn't enjoy it, but there wasn't exactly a lot of soy on the bean on this one. It's a Hollywood blockbuster that goes down easy if you don't think too hard.
Another Hopeful Fool started reading Fugitive Telemetry by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #6)
The security droid with a heart (though it wouldn’t admit it!) is back in Fugitive …
SecUnit's on the case!
SecUnit's on the case!
Another Hopeful Fool reviewed Exit Strategy by Martha Wells (The Murderbot Diaries, #4)
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling …
More like Entry to my heart Strategy
4 stars
I've kind of been hopping about the Murderbot books, so I'm just going through them chronologically now. I had missed this one in my earlier readings, but now I realize it's kind of the tonal "key" to the shift in SecUnit's attitudes in Network Effect.
The ending of Exit Strategy is such a great payoff. It's so understated and compassionate. I loved it.
I've kind of been hopping about the Murderbot books, so I'm just going through them chronologically now. I had missed this one in my earlier readings, but now I realize it's kind of the tonal "key" to the shift in SecUnit's attitudes in Network Effect.
The ending of Exit Strategy is such a great payoff. It's so understated and compassionate. I loved it.
Another Hopeful Fool started reading Operation Baracuda by Tom Clancy (Tom Clancy's splinter cell)
He is quiet, invisible, deadly--and the newest weapon on the front lines of a technologically …
Sigh... I'm not proud. Literally found this in a wet box at the side of the road and fondly remembered reading a Rainbow Six a couple lifetimes ago. If nothing else, I don't much care if I drop it in the bath while reading. :p
Sigh... I'm not proud. Literally found this in a wet box at the side of the road and fondly remembered reading a Rainbow Six a couple lifetimes ago. If nothing else, I don't much care if I drop it in the bath while reading. :p