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Emily hiding in a stack of books :3

chwiggy@books.theunseen.city

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2026 Reading Goal

Success! Emily hiding in a stack of books :3 has read 18 of 12 books.

Oliver Sacks: The River of Consciousness (Hardcover, 2017, Knopf Canada)

"Two weeks before his death, Oliver Sacks outlined the contents of The River of Consciousness, …

"I wanna write like you"

I get why the blurb on the front page calls him "the poet laureate of medicine". And you know what? I want to write like him! Sure his terminology is sometimes coloured by outmoded ways of neurology, but in essence, I want to write about my interests with the depth of an Oliver Sacks. And if it means I gotta quote books from 1874 in my goddamn homework about the Neckar valley, like I did years ago. It almost makes me angry that this almost certainly is not the way to publish with the threat of an academic career in my back.

Ann Leckie: Ancillary Mercy (Paperback, 2015, Orbit)

For just a moment, things seem to be under control for the soldier known as …

It's a power fantasy really

Somehow I'm Breq. I'm alienated from this society. I'm Angry. I have a wish to kill Anaander Minaai. Yet I don't have superhuman abilities. Yet I don't have Presger Translators as my potential allies. Yet I don't have a gun designed to pierce any armour for 1.11 m. Oh do I wish I had tho!