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Matt’s 2024 Year in Books
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Matt Kelland
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| Winter is coming. Human colonists and indigenous inhabitants have to put aside prejudice and work together to survive. She does a great job of contrasting the two groups, portraying each from their own perspective, but the story feels slight and neve ...more | |
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| A wonderfully creepy little story, very unsettling in many ways. I'm almost surprised that we don't use the term "wallpapering" instead of "gaslighting" to describe this kind of mental manipulation. ...more | |
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| Finally - I've read all the shorts and world-building background stories, and I'm into the main story arc. It's terrific stuff - the plot manages to zip along while being nicely complex. There are plenty of political factions, all trying to get their ...more | |
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| Hair metal, Irish mythology, pagan magic, the ultimate Battle of the Bands... this is all right up my alley. It touches on themes of empowerment, gay rights, AIDS, and dealing with abuse, and it's written with a lot of heart. The author also knows he ...more | |
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| Okay, that was weird. A burlesque dancer who literally shimmies her way through space and time. I have to admit, it entertained me, mostly because the reading on The Lost Sci-Fi Podcast was excellent. | |
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| Very apposite in these days of AI deepfakes and nude filters, but it doesn't quite come across as sincere. Yes, Magruder keeps talking about this "evil, obscene" man, but it always feels like more of a wink and a nod. ...more | |
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| It's okay, but basically more of the same. ...more | |
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DNF. I tried, but just couldn't. Partly because 70 pages in, pretty much nothing has happened. It’s lots of tedious conversations with different factions complaining repeatedly about each other. But mostly, I can't keep the characters straight. There ...more |
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| I really enjoyed the first two thirds of the book, set in an Arabic world. Great storytelling, fun characters, intriguing plot... and then she ties it into the world of Howl and it all falls apart. | |
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| I'm not sure about this, but I'm going to persist with the series and see how it goes. At least I got through it this time, which I failed to do when I first tried to read it in the 80s. ...more | |
“I don't want whatever I want. Nobody does. Not really. What kind of fun would it be if I just got everything I ever wanted just like that, and it didn't mean anything? What then?”
― Coraline
― Coraline
“The most essential prerequisite to understanding is to be able to admit when you don't understand something”
― Information Anxiety 2
― Information Anxiety 2
“Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it is time to reform (or pause and reflect).”
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“Have you no respect for the past? For what was thought and believed by your foremothers?”
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Why, no,” she said. “Why should we? They are all gone. They knew less than we do. If we are not beyond them, we are unworthy of them—and unworthy of the children who must go beyond us.”
― Herland
“Those “feminine charms” we are so fond of are not feminine at all, but mere reflected masculinity—developed to please us because they had to please us, and in no way essential to the real fulfillment of their great process.”
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