TBH I've come to question the sense of rating an anthology. After all, if I loved every story, wouldn't that simply mean a perfect overlap between my taste and that of the editor? I read this because it contains a story by Andrew Joseph White, and that certainly didn't disappoint. Although a number of other stories didn't really do anything for me, I have discovered a number of new writers I'd like to read more by (Jose Pablo Iriarte, Tori Curtis, Kathryn DeFazio, and Kylie Ariel Bemis), plus the introduction listed a number of interesting other venues for stories.
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pdotb reviewed Transcendent 4 by Bogi Takács
Transcendent 4
4 stars
pdotb finished reading Flowers in the Dark by Sister Dang Nghiem
pdotb finished reading The Red Flag: A History of Communism by David Priestland
Comprehensive and surprisingly even-handed
4 stars
Provides a remarkably readable history of communism, tracing its origins in the French Revolution and continuing to almost the present day. Very detailed consideration of the internal workings of pretty much any country with a significant communist presence in the last 150 years, only slightly marred by a lack of context -- but then maybe the book would have been even more of a monster than it already was.
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pdotb finished reading The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead has thinned. Violet-eyed mediums commune …
pdotb reviewed The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead …
Stunning
5 stars
Genuinely just blown away by this. Mixture of creepy and gory that slightly belies the YA designation, but I fell for the characters so hard.
Mors vincit omnia. Death conquers all.
London, 1883. The Veil between the living and dead …
Without the rabbit, my chest is hollow. A cage with nothing inside. There are scars on my ribs, signs of a struggle, and an ache every time I breathe. But there is nothing within. I almost miss it. The knowledge that something was there with me, hyperaware of danger, keeping me safe. But it wasn't keeping me safe, was it? It was only ever torturing me, reminding me of what my tutors said, making sure that I remained frozen and afraid like a prey animal. Just like a rabbit.
— The Spirit Bares Its Teeth by Andrew Joseph White (Page 371 - 372)
pdotb started reading Autism and Buddhist Practice by Chris Jarrell
pdotb started reading Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age by Neil Davidson
Revolutionary Rehearsals in the Neoliberal Age by Neil Davidson, Colin Barker, Gareth Dale
This ambitious volume examines revolutionary situations during a non-revolutionary historical conjuncture--the neoliberal era. The last three decades have seen an …
