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There was no need for this book to exceed the 225 page mark.

Looking forward to finally starting the work.

'Ah, you have a noble heart!' said the count; 'so much the better.'

[...T]he remnants of Taiwan cedar are an eldritch vision: they stand vacant with water scaling their trunks, wasted shards bleached in the sun, pointed and jagged at their tips.

Forgot to mention that I'm reading this for this year's Trans Rights Readathon (and it's going pretty well regardless).

I checked this out in case I was the only one so it wouldn't get weeded, but now there's three people behind me and this clown of a library still charges late fees, so I hope this does me some good.

There's no way in hell my younger self engaged with this well enough to legitimately merit four stars, but I won't begrudge him an A for effort.

The amount of time work has obligated me to stare at this cover (bosom) has been inordinate, to say the least, so you can't really blame me for caving.

"Taylor & Francis has announced plans to use AI to translate books into English from languages that the U.K.-based academic publisher said would otherwise have too small of an audience to justify the time and resources needed for human translation." Sounds like Taylor & Francis is too small of a publisher to deserve an audience.

Between cancer and Trump I'm ready to commit acts most untoward, but work obligating me to go ham with all the queer ordering of books for our June catalog certainly helps.

Previous to my doing so, this book hadn't been checked out once in the three years it had been on my workplace's shelves, which isn't surprising considering the makeup and behavior of the local patrons but no less disgusting.

Every time the text starts listing out clothing/jewelry/accessories in order to describe someone/something, I get the urge to play Animal Crossing, and considering this is the author's main way of conveying detail, all the murder and mayhem is reading pretty comedically.

What's Musk doing in my comic?

Trans Rights Readathon starts tomorrow (Mar 21-31)! Here are some reads and some more details. Who's with me?

The beauty of being both the sole cataloguer at my workplace and the union steward of my department is that I know exactly how to say fuck the new white supremacist subject headings in the most legally upholdable and bureacratically protected way possible.

This was a stronger piece before Lovecraft went full art-fanfiction. Academics can't even identify anything as as anything other than a cishet man at first archeological glance, don't tell me someone could trace varying levels of consciously applied aesthetic 'decadence' and accurately hypothesize the rhythmic structures of auditory eminations of select species from some carved out stones.

Looking into the spot where the lines were sinking into the blue-green depths, he saw his companion following, the manta ray with its greying form moving through the depths of ocean below. Norm became intoxicated by watching the prolonged movement of the suspended ray. The creature moved so tantalisingly slowly by suspending itself in the drift of tidal movement. He no longer cared to stay above. His vision slipped..

Went to a new-to-me bookstore for the first time and found a copy of work I'd been looking for since 2011 in the space of five minutes, so. I think it's a keeper.

First reread for the first time in a long while, and it's a doozy.

Hate to have to say this, but Delany's really been missing the 'show not tell' mark on this one (and coming in the wake of Samatar hasn't been helping matters).

If the military science lab was seen as the birthplace of twentieth-century nuclear annihilation, the twenty-first century's death by ecological destruction and unfettered capitalism is symbolized by a glass-cube conference room with a whiteboard.

It's been twelve years since my last Ivey. Let's see what has changed and what has not.

My typically easy going aunt is rankled by the murmurings of a Donald Trump-led trade war. [...] "Good riddance!" she says. " [...] We used to export all the good things to the United States and kept all the defective stuff to sell here! And look how we've damaged our environment, just for you Americans! Crafty people, manufacturing is a dirty job, didn't want to ruin your own country!"

After my date with Rebecca, [my husband] seemed to have switched tactics. Now, rather than acting like my lesbianism was something we should both pretend wasn't real, he was acting like it was something we could share between us. I wasn't sure which was worse.

One speaker at the conference, Karissa McKelvey of Digital Democracy, puts it, "Blockchain governance is not unbiased or neutral. It's just shifting bureaucratic roles to more technical roles. At some point, you have to trust someone." Given the demographics of those in the technical roles, McKelvey bluntly says, "You might even say it's colonialism."

Look, if public libraries are blessing me with queer eldritch erotica, who am I to refuse?

There's just something about finding out that an author uses they/them pronouns that makes me feel safe.

[H]e thinks free will only exists so you can prove your commitment to suffering.