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Reading Wednesday
Just finished: The Complete Lockpick Pornography by Joey Comeau. Be gay do crime. That's it, that's the whole two novellas. I really enjoyed this; it's anarchic and fun and well-written. There's some transphobic stuff (it's a character being transphobic, not the author) and some discussion of sexual and homophobic violence, so, TW I guess.
Whose Land Is It Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter McFarlane & Nicole Schabus. This is a short, accessible collection of essays by Indigenous authors on decolonization. I wouldn't call it a manual, to be honest; it's about land, and restoring the land to its original stewards, whereas a manual suggests a more detailed analysis of the process. But it's a good overview of the issues involved in land title, education, and culture. What I really liked about it is that I could give it to a student or educator with minimal to no understanding of Indigenous title, and they'd have a good grounding written in plain language as opposed to legal terminology.
Currently reading: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. Which one of you said I'd like this? You were right. This is exactly my jam. It's a murder mystery set at a magical boarding school, and is really fun so far. Our heroine, Ivy, is a hardboiled noir PI dropped into a magic school that is somewhere between Hogwarts and Brakebills on a sliding scale of genre deconstruction, which so happens to be the institution where her estranged sister, Tabitha, works. Given that I'm writing a mundane-applications-of-magic novel right now, I'm always hella cautious about reading things like this lest they influence me too much, but I'm also really into it.
Whose Land Is It Anyway: A Manual for Decolonization, edited by Peter McFarlane & Nicole Schabus. This is a short, accessible collection of essays by Indigenous authors on decolonization. I wouldn't call it a manual, to be honest; it's about land, and restoring the land to its original stewards, whereas a manual suggests a more detailed analysis of the process. But it's a good overview of the issues involved in land title, education, and culture. What I really liked about it is that I could give it to a student or educator with minimal to no understanding of Indigenous title, and they'd have a good grounding written in plain language as opposed to legal terminology.
Currently reading: Magic for Liars by Sarah Gailey. Which one of you said I'd like this? You were right. This is exactly my jam. It's a murder mystery set at a magical boarding school, and is really fun so far. Our heroine, Ivy, is a hardboiled noir PI dropped into a magic school that is somewhere between Hogwarts and Brakebills on a sliding scale of genre deconstruction, which so happens to be the institution where her estranged sister, Tabitha, works. Given that I'm writing a mundane-applications-of-magic novel right now, I'm always hella cautious about reading things like this lest they influence me too much, but I'm also really into it.
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It's way more of a deconstruction than even Magicians; it doesn't even fit in my comparison here.