Verglas rated The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi: 4 stars

The Adventures of Amina Al-Sirafi by Shannon Chakraborty
Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, …
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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Amina al-Sirafi should be content. After a storied and scandalous career as one of the Indian Ocean’s most notorious pirates, …
Two activist journalists present a progressive, intersectional approach to the vital question: What can we do about antisemitism?
Antisemitism is …
The last three chapters took a while. I have been busy through December and January.
I highly recommend this book. I think it offers some crucial information regarding the current state of the Jewish left and antisemitism as part of the greater leftwing anticolonial antifascist, anti-racist, and anti-white-supremacist struggle, and how we can all work together the form a greater and more solidaritous left that respects our diversity while also respecting one another.
A fascinating look into how the transformative joys of mathematical experience are available to everyone, not just specialists
Math has …
"Inara: Light of Utopia" is a groundbreaking anthology that unites the voices of queer and trans Palestinians from around the …
This was fascinating. Not sure whether it was my mood or something else but I didn't like the first chapter but stuck with it and absolutely loved the rest of the book.
Interesting adventure, great storytelling, characters have depth. Recommend.
This is the book that inspired Micheal Moorcock to write SF which made me curious. In his own words: "It was Alfred Bester who first attracted me to science fiction. I'd read some fantasy and Edgar Rice Burroughs before that, but I thought that if The Stars My Destination (also called Tiger! Tiger!) was sf, then this was the fiction for me. It took me some years to realise that Bester was one of the few exceptions. " - Michael Moorcock in 'Starship Stormtroopers' (libcom.org/article/starship-stormtroopers-michael-moorcock)