mouse finished reading System Collapse by Martha Wells(duplicate)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I'm ready for the show now (I really hope it's good)
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mouse stopped reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …
this just isn't doing it for me
mouse started reading Those Beyond the Wall by Micaiah Johnson
In Ashtown, a rough-and-tumble desert community, the Emperor rules with poisoned claws and an iron …
I re-read The Space Between Worlds to refresh my memory when I saw that this was out, and I was nervous to see what this would be, since that story felt.. concluded. But seeing that it's following different characters is a relief! I'm curious to see where it goes.
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
"God spoke to me, he says he wants me to tell you about all the times I was right and you were wrong"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
this is a wild read and it's sort of comforting that a lot of her contemporaries, even in her account, seem to also be going "Margery, what?"
mouse commented on The Book of Margery Kempe by Margery Kempe
Margery Kempe would have killed it on Tumblr
mouse finished reading Abarat by Clive Barker
Candy Quackenbush, a sixteen-year-old girl, is bored with her life and is desperate for something …
As a kid I found this so engaging but on re-read it felt flat and aimlessly zany
mouse commented on System Collapse by Martha Wells(duplicate)
Am I making it worse? I think I'm making it worse.
Following the events in …
I'm out of Murderbot?? mods???
mouse finished reading Exit Strategy by Martha Wells
"Martha Wells's Hugo, Nebula, Alex, and Locus Award-winning, New York Times and USA Today bestselling …
Murderbot Diaries really is the Sanctuary Moon of our time
mouse reviewed The West Passage by Jared Pechaček
When the Guardian of the West Passage died in her bed, the women of Grey …
Fantastic Planet does the Book of Kells
This book is so visual and imaginative, and thrives when walking you through the surreal, psychedelic, illuminated manuscript of a world. But while it was always interesting, I found it hard to stay engaged with the story at times, particularly in the middle. The ending compelled me, and I wish I'd had more of that connection to the plot and characters through the rest of the book.
mouse commented on Baking with Fortitude by Dee Rettali
every recipe using self-rising flour and salted butter is tiring me out
mouse reviewed As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
stick with Rats, Lice, and History
Zinsser writes his autobiography in the third person, playing both the somewhat disdainful biographer of "R.S." and R.S. himself. The conceit is characteristically weird, unnecessary, and extremely well done and funny, but I think it also is a distancing device for a man who doesn't really want to share anything personal about himself. Which makes for a frustrating autobiography!
In the rare moments when he does talk concretely about his life, the book is extremely fun (his account of his abortive attempt at a private medical practice, for example, is laugh-out-loud funny). But he spends most of the book and in long discursive discussions of the issues of his day, which unfortunately tend to end up either boring (unless you are very interested in his views on the state of medical pedagogy in 1940), or euphemistically "of their time." While the book is not surprisingly racist, sexist, or eugenicist for …
Zinsser writes his autobiography in the third person, playing both the somewhat disdainful biographer of "R.S." and R.S. himself. The conceit is characteristically weird, unnecessary, and extremely well done and funny, but I think it also is a distancing device for a man who doesn't really want to share anything personal about himself. Which makes for a frustrating autobiography!
In the rare moments when he does talk concretely about his life, the book is extremely fun (his account of his abortive attempt at a private medical practice, for example, is laugh-out-loud funny). But he spends most of the book and in long discursive discussions of the issues of his day, which unfortunately tend to end up either boring (unless you are very interested in his views on the state of medical pedagogy in 1940), or euphemistically "of their time." While the book is not surprisingly racist, sexist, or eugenicist for the era, and I do think Zinsser has some amount of critical thinking on these fronts, it is still ultimately racist, sexist, and eugenicist.
So, instead of the boring bits and the yikes bits, let us remember the part where he pretends to have rabies, bites a classmate, and is only stopped when someone dumps a tank of sea urchins on him. Or skip this one and just read Rats, Lice, and History.
mouse started reading Baking with Fortitude by Dee Rettali
It seems like the main idea in this book is leaving cake batter at room temperature for a couple days to ferment before baking it, I am extremely interested
mouse commented on As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
I have to interject here, a little over half way through, that I do not recommend this book. Just stick with Rats, Lice, and History.
mouse started reading As I Remember Him by Hans Zinsser
This work is an autobiography told in the third person, and includes coverage of his …
You’ll be pleased and relieved to hear that, based on the first few pages, this book is completely unhinged