Reading Wednesday
Nov. 16th, 2022 07:24 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabby Just finished: A Hero Of Our Time by Naben Ruthnum. Look, I loved this so much that I got my writing collective to reach out to the author for an interview. Because it needs more love. I haven't seen anyone raving about it, which amounts to a war crime. It's a blistering satire of race relations, edu tech, and neoliberal academia, and I related too hard. It's one of those novels where everyone is terrible and everything hurts, and yet it was a very cathartic read for me in terms of the way progressive language gets manipulated to screw over workers, privatize, and automate education. I get the impression that it was started pre-pandemic, but when covid happens towards the end, it's inevitable and prescient. Anyway, read it so I have someone else to scream about this with.
Currently reading: A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger. Continues to be really good! The plot is gentle and meandering, in stark contrast with practically everything else I read, but the characters are vividly drawn and the writing is lovely and luminous.
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. I love everything this author writes so it's unsurprising that this is great so far. Tetley is the most hated girl in Garbagetown, a floating city on a flooded world filled with the detritus and folly of a fallen civilization that its residents call the Fuckwits. Years ago, she revealed the truth behind a false hope of dry land, and she's been punished for it ever since. Her exuberant, manic narration brings the inherent bleakness of the setting to life and weaves a thread of black humour throughout Tetley's wanderings.
Currently reading: A Snake Falls To Earth by Darcie Little Badger. Continues to be really good! The plot is gentle and meandering, in stark contrast with practically everything else I read, but the characters are vividly drawn and the writing is lovely and luminous.
The Past is Red by Catherynne M. Valente. I love everything this author writes so it's unsurprising that this is great so far. Tetley is the most hated girl in Garbagetown, a floating city on a flooded world filled with the detritus and folly of a fallen civilization that its residents call the Fuckwits. Years ago, she revealed the truth behind a false hope of dry land, and she's been punished for it ever since. Her exuberant, manic narration brings the inherent bleakness of the setting to life and weaves a thread of black humour throughout Tetley's wanderings.
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Date: 2022-11-18 12:27 pm (UTC)If I am lucky, I read a book a week (or a bit more).
Or I did before the pandemic, when I have travel time.
Apologies if you have a FAQ. I did not read it. Or look for it. :P
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Date: 2022-11-18 12:29 pm (UTC)Normally, a book a week, but I'm unfocused lately and keep falling asleep (not because the books aren't amazing, but because I'm running on fumes). I also have silent independent reading at school where I must, of course, model said behaviour for the students, so I'm always reading two books at once.
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Date: 2022-11-18 12:50 pm (UTC)We used to have USSR (cold war LOLS, it was unstructured sustained silent reading IIRC).
I loved it.
I fall asleep all the time now, but I am old