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Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in …
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A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means …
She fingered the edge of the cup and finally threw it away. "So we run something called the Archive of Our Own, which is for fan fiction---" "Oh, I'm very familiar." I felt my voice drop three notes, the way people's voices do when they meet another person who's ever been deep in fandom.
— Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman (Page 8)
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Dead Collections by Isaac Fellman
A whirlwind romance between an eccentric archivist and a grieving widow explores what it means to be at home in …
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Mansfield Park by Jane Austen, June Sturrock
Mansfield Park is Jane Austen’s darkest, and most complex novel. In contrast to the confident and vivacious heroines of Emma …
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Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Robert P. Irvine
Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past …
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The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under …
pdotb started reading Practicing Social Ecology by Eleanor Finley
Practicing Social Ecology by Eleanor Finley
How can we harness society's potential to change the trajectory of the climate crisis? So many of us feel helpless …
pdotb finished reading The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Ajani Oloye
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Ajani Oloye, Sumiko Arai
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she …
pdotb started reading The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Ajani Oloye
The Guy She Was Interested in Wasn't a Guy at All, Vol. 1 by Ajani Oloye, Sumiko Arai
Fashionable and upbeat high schooler Aya loves listening to rock, but no one else seems to share her interest…until she …
pdotb started reading The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
The Old English Baron by Clara Reeve
The Old English Baron is an early Gothic novel by the English author Clara Reeve. It was first published under …
pdotb commented on The Great Right North by Stéphane Leman-Langlois
In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities. …
Content warning canpol, racism, violence
Not a review as such, because I don't really know how to give this a star rating. It was more academic than I was expecting, though I shouldn't have been surprised given it's a university press! Among the 'highlights' was chapter 2, with a classification and partial enumeration of far-right groups in Canada. Particularly notable was its explanation of the ideology behind Diagolon, which is much more sinister than I remember from news coverage around the time of the convoy. There's some good analysis through chapters 3, 4, and 5 of how people are attracted to far-right groups and the world-view they build up. The authors see group members as rational actors, even if the underlying facts they lean on are a very one-sided view of reality, often veering into conspiratorial thinking. Chapter 6 is particularly good on the failures of PSC and CSIS, who appear stuck in a post-9/11 focus on Islamist terror and almost willfully ignore the danger of the far-right. Also good to see the authors comment on the term 'lone wolf' -- as they point out, this commonly-used expression assigns far too much 'coolness' to these individuals and is practically only ever used for white attackers -- 'lone actor' is a more helpfully-neutral term.
pdotb finished reading The Great Right North by Stéphane Leman-Langlois
The Great Right North by Stéphane Leman-Langlois, Aurélie Campana, Samuel Tanner
In February 2021 the Canadian government published a considerably expanded list of domestic terrorist entities. While some, such as Blood …
pdotb started reading Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, Robert P. Irvine
Elizabeth Bennet is Austen’s most liberated and appealing heroine, and Pride and Prejudice has remained over most of the past …