Verglas commented on Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
This is a nice book, I really like it. It's going super slow though, not for any book reason but because I continually get distracted by other things.
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Checking this out! I don't read fast but I am consistent :D
For work I read a lot of scientific papers so sadly I don't have too much energy to come home and read much of the political stuff that is still on my wish list. So there will probably be quite a lot of (science) fiction ...
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Verglas wants to read Bitch: On the Female of the Species by Lucy Cooke
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A fierce, funny, and revolutionary look at the queens of the animal kingdom
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Verglas wants to read Safety Through Solidarity by Shane Burley
@badrihippo@biblio.thekambattu.rocks Yeah it was a shame. I love the authors' antifascist podcast so I had really high hopes. And indeed, the reference list is very interesting. Also they do mention one or two groups I hadn't put into the eco-fascist context yet myself which is arguably good as well as that they explicitly call the primitivists like Zerzan out on their BS which is something many more people should be doing imo. So I do appreciate that.
Verglas started reading Saint of Bright Doors by Vajra Chandrasekera
I started reading this a couple weeks ago and then put it down for two books. Going to get back into it now!
Verglas rated Rise of Ecofascism: 2 stars
Verglas finished reading Rise of Ecofascism by Sam Moore
I was really looking forward to this book and I was extremely disappointed.
The book contains quite a bit information-wise, considering it is only 136 (paperback) pages long and is a small but reasonably comprehensive review on the topic of ecofascism.
Sadly, it doesn't go into much detail (I guess that's also too much to ask in 136 pages) and the prose is absolutely terrible. It took me longer than any 136 page book has a right to take because I was actively avoiding picking it up because I didn't want to read it. It was a chore. And I am so so relieved I am finally done with this.
Now I read academic literature as part of my job so that's not it. I think the style just disagreed with me. Every second sentence starts with "As this person said", "as that person wrote", "as such and such commented …
I was really looking forward to this book and I was extremely disappointed.
The book contains quite a bit information-wise, considering it is only 136 (paperback) pages long and is a small but reasonably comprehensive review on the topic of ecofascism.
Sadly, it doesn't go into much detail (I guess that's also too much to ask in 136 pages) and the prose is absolutely terrible. It took me longer than any 136 page book has a right to take because I was actively avoiding picking it up because I didn't want to read it. It was a chore. And I am so so relieved I am finally done with this.
Now I read academic literature as part of my job so that's not it. I think the style just disagreed with me. Every second sentence starts with "As this person said", "as that person wrote", "as such and such commented on", which is not only annoying but also entirely superfluous considering the sentence is also cited and the book has (and this is the one good thing I have to say about it) a pretty extensive reference list for such a small book.
Without those lines, the book perhaps would be even shorter and this space could have been used to put in more detail.
Verglas rated De zwarte driehoek: 5 stars
Verglas finished reading De zwarte driehoek by Rense Havinga
Very interesting book on how the 'antisocials' were treated before, during, and especially after the WWII German occupation of the Netherlands.
Should probably be on the radar of anyone who is in social work in the Netherlands to avoid repeating the past
Verglas rated Paladin's Grace: 3 stars
Paladin's Grace by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #1)
Stephen's god died on the longest day of the year…
Three years later, Stephen is a broken paladin, living only …
Verglas rated Paladin's Strength: 2 stars
Paladin's Strength by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #2)
He’s a paladin of a dead god, tracking a supernatural killer across a continent. She’s a nun from a secretive …
Verglas rated Paladin's Hope: 2 stars
Paladin's Hope by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #3)
Piper is a lich-doctor, a physician who works among the dead, determining causes of death for the city guard's investigations. …
Verglas rated Paladin's Faith: 2 stars
Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #4)
Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When she falls afoul of a …
Verglas finished reading Paladin's Faith by T. Kingfisher (The Saint of Steel, #4)
Marguerite Florian has spent her life acquiring and selling information, using whatever means necessary. When …
Content warning As predicted
It was about Shane, the only remaining of the single male Paladins. He again was basically the same character as the male protagonists of the previous books. And of course the characterization is in many ways problematic. This in itself is not so much a problem if it's one book that describes a particular person. Some people are just a bit problematic. But this author clearly fantasizes about one specific version of somewhat problematic masculinity and this makes reading the books annoying.
Story itself was still just easy to read popcorn/bubblegum fantasy and is interesting enough.
@badrihippo@biblio.thekambattu.rocks Good luck! I found the Iliad rather hard going. Mostly because ever person gets referred to in five different ways. One time the guy is 'the son of x', the next time the same guy is referred to as 'the cousin of the uncle of y', then he has a name, and then he's 'the follower of z'. My brain does not do that very well haha