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The protective barrier that separates Westland from its neighbors to the east is about to …
Just dull very ordinary fantasy, weirdly sexist and niceguy-ish at the same time and yeah super homophobic.
In 2025, with the world descending into madness and anarchy, one woman begins a fateful …
Eerily accurate, hopeful, and written in a cool journal style. Highly recommend.
The story takes place on the fictional planet Urras and its moon Anarres (since Anarres …
Happened to be reading this when I joined this instance! Just finished it. This was my first Ursula LeGuin book after having a hard time finding her stuff. I'm now reading A Wizard of Earthsea!
Strange visitor from another world who can change the course of mighty rivers, bend steel …
Just before dawn one winter's morning, a hijacked jetliner explodes above the English Channel. Through …
Absolutely incredible. Took me ages to read but what a spectacular achievement. A wild story and deep reflections on the nation and religion, identity and myth. Some of the gender dynamics are a bit dated these days but otherwise absolutely bang on. Well worth a fatwa or two
In the tradition of Octavia Butler, radical self-help, society-help, and planet-help to shape the futures …
University student Sophie Bangs explores the vast areas of Imagination.
This book mostly contains random cultural notes on seaweed & its preservation. The illustrations are cool and they are interesting, though the sections often follow each other in confusing fashion. I wish there had been more seaweed ID information here, rather than random paragraphs about Harry Potter and Christopher Columbus.
Two classic tales of dogs, one part wolf and one a Saint Bernard/Scotch shepherd mix …
The Adrienne Rich poem at the beginning set my expectations for this book way too high.
I thought this was going to be a badass adventure story about a witch destroying patriarchy. Instead it's about some woman becoming a medieval knight's fuck-sleeve (more or less the actual terminology used THROUGHOUT THE BOOK.) The world of the book sounds interesting but is never developed. Likewise for the magical lore, or even the MC's character development. Instead, we spend over 300 pages as the main character does nothing, with a barrage of rapey sex scenes that could only be hot to the most repressed of heterosexual housewives.
I literally threw this book out the window at the end, when after waiting for so fucking long to see what happens when they go to war, the story ends on a cliffhanger. I will not be reading the sequel. This shit sucked.
The story of Christine Jorgensen, Americas first prominent transsexual, famously narrated trans embodiment in the …
Harry Potter #7
Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as …
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