I'd already been planning on reading this book for a while (I love a fairytale retelling, if it's done right). Then I watched the movie The Company of Wolves and it was the exact story I needed at that moment. Without going into detail, it really helped go through and get over some stuff. So I wanted to read the book even more. I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm going through it in order, saving the wolf-stories that I adored so much in the film version for last.
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I read light, but broadly. Currently one of my favorite things is to dig up female sci-fi/fantasy authors from the 70s and 80s. I find it difficult to separate my own personal experience of a book from its "objective" good or bad qualities and rate and review it in a way that could be useful for some hypothetical Universal Reader. I just wanna chat, really.
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radio-appears commented on The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter
radio-appears replied to finktank's status
@finktank@books.idas.social They're really, really good! I wish he'd write another full size novel or novella, but I haven't heard anything about his writing in a while.
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@finktank@books.idas.social A taste of honey is even better imo, so look forward to that! He also some free short stories on reactormag.com, if you haven't checked those out already :)
finktank finished reading The Sorcerer of the Wildeeps by Kai Ashante Wilson
radio-appears finished reading The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
radio-appears finished reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster. Developing a serum with the …
radio-appears replied to betty@bookwyrm.social's status
@betty@bookwyrm.social Sounds really interesting! I'll keep an eye out for it.
radio-appears started reading Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
In seeking to discover his inner self, the brilliant Dr Henry Jekyll discovers a monster. Developing a serum with the …
radio-appears started reading The Bone People by Keri Hulme
The Bone People by Keri Hulme
Integrating both Maori myth and New Zealand reality, The Bone People became the most successful novel in New Zealand publishing …
radio-appears finished reading Laura H. by Thomas Rueb
radio-appears finished reading Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum by Terry Pratchett
Carpe Jugulum (; Latatian for "seize the throat", cf. Carpe diem) is a comic fantasy novel by English writer Terry …
radio-appears commented on The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
Okay, I'm about halfway through this book, and I feel I can already say: that Hugo was deserved. It is very good. I do still hope to find out why Jemisin decided to write Essun's chapters in second person. That's such an uncommon voice, I feel like it has to have a purpose.
Sally Strange reviewed The man without a face by Masha Gessen
I learned so much
5 stars
As an American, this was a fascinating and educational read. It fills in the blanks left by our myopic media and provides context to events that were quite mysterious and unexpected at the time that I was living through them.
To have finished the book, which closes describing scenes in Moscow in December 2011, when Alexei Navalny was leading hopeful protests against the Putin regime, on the same day that the news of Navalny's death in prison reached me, seems cruel, but entirely fitting. In these passages, Gessen notes that Putin and his allies were slow to recognize the danger they were in, and predicted that when they did, they would lash out violently, like a cornered animal. Perhaps with a terrorist attack, like the ones the KGB engineered against the Russian people in 1999 - 2000, when Putin was first running for president. But no. Putin started a war.