@sunstone@weirder.earth | he/him | tech worker | USA | 30s | Reading interests: speculative fiction, pop-science, tech-related, social justice, and Buddhism & Hinduism.
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Not taking anything away from anyone who likes this. But I personally found it cringey at best. 2 stars for making me laugh and leaving me with some hilarious images.
The twist ending, where the protagonist makes a slightly different choice with a drastically different outcome, must have been a real treat to the fans. I love that for them.
We are artist and sailors, and have been living, and working from our sailboat since …
It honestly reads like an adventure novella. I even enjoyed reading the recipes at the end. Highly recommend.
This book takes an interesting approach to defining fascism by dissecting its historical manifestations and then finding what they all have in common. He makes a distinction between fascism and authoritarianism that I hadn’t thought about before. He argues that fascism isn’t simply a subset of authoritarianism because of some key factors like counterrevolutionary tactics and relationships to other institutions.
I’m not a scholar in this field but my main criticism would be that if we define fascism to be so narrow, then it becomes a little unwieldy to fight against. It’s impractical but maybe for the interests of researchers and historians, this is the right move.
The Overstory, winner of the Pulitzer Prize in Fiction, is a sweeping, impassioned work of …
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The ending left a lot to be desired but I suppose there’s no way to end a plot that has such high aims.
"Howard Zinn began work on his first book for his friends at Seven Stories Press …
Impassioned, spanning multiple decades. Plea for pacifism. Maybe not really practical but valuable nonetheless.
Marie Kondo focuses a lot on the how, which is hard to get away from. The bulk of this book is the how as well. However, it starts and ends with the why — specifically, the emotional components.
Very much geared toward people who live in houses, not apartments. But they need this information the most anyway.
Every American over the age of 14 should read this book at least once in their lives.
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches …
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I guess I get it a little bit, but I don’t really get it. Felt a little bit like a YA novel and not just because main characters where kids. It’s told from the POV of someone who only partially understands what she observes but is very observant nonetheless.
The ending could’ve swung for the fences a little more, I feel.
