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  • 8 (or 40) Incredible Novels to Start Reading Now

    Try to go in as blank-minded as the amnesiac protagonist, and enjoy Clarke's ambient and mysterious storytelling

  • Loss of Humanity

    When a reader opens my newsletter/blog, they will find: a) A new perspective on a social issue – perhaps Despite being victims of the October 7th attack, Israel has more than defense or even retribution in mind We have only ourselves, and I hope we can find our lost humanity before it is too late.

  • Persona by Aoife Josie Clements: Review & Analysis

    The hook: a shut-in trans woman finds explicit content of herself online, which she didn't make. Consider finding Persona at your local library or queer bookstore and giving it a shot. by Aoife Josie Clements Spoilers & Analysis One of the things I love about Persona is just how many kinds subverts all expectations, though, as the women explore the offices of their shared employer only to find Annie's in no condition to be any kind of reliable in her section's narration, but perhaps there are

  • The Saint of Bright Doors: Lost in the System

    It's hard to find a perfect term for this idea in books and film; mimesis is the best the internet could who have reached the fourth level of awakening; patricide; and the assassination of the Perfect and Kind - Vajra Chandrasekera , The Saint of Bright Doors Adult Fetter ultimately finds himself in the city At one point the story finds Fetter attempting to return to Luriat after visiting home. His release is only secured because his father, the Perfect and Kind, has summoned him.

  • A Moment of Silence, A Year of Rage

    can often be problematic: lashing out at ourselves or those around us with any number of different kinds But do we really have to think very hard to find the root cause of our emotions, here and now?

  • Postcolonial Narratives, Empathy Burnout & ADHD

    my favourite novels and series are deeply postcolonial, most often by directly examining imperialist mindsets As I've written about before , I often find myself mentally paralyzed (experiencing executive dysfunction

  • K.J. Parker's World of Deadpan Fantasy

    Those stories that do feature magic lose none of the usual cynicism, however, and simply find new ways Parker's work I find absolutely fascinating – and half wonder whether he does in part to toy with loyal his stories seem to inhabit the same world, but it remains nearly impossible to view them with any kind This is a fan's best attempt at assembling Parker's world, and as far as I can tell it is one-of-a-kind It's hard to find one of his stories that doesn't play with ideas of perception and reality; the " Great

  • Touching Allegories in 'The Tomb of Dragons'

    with a host of new issues on top of a few lingering ones from The Grief of Stones , and it's tough to find Both his fraught journey to accepting the loss and his catharsis at eventually finding his abilities It's a simple scene and slightly awkward, but it's the kind of important real life communication we need in this series, it is to learn that they were all but exterminated 120 years ago by the Clenverada Mining The same is true for all kinds of artwork and furniture.

  • Life Has Value

    fostered real relationships with the working class of their ancestral planet Caladan and bring that mindset a bit scattered today, partly because a Google Cloud disruption has been messing with my ability to find

  • It Gets Better: Rhythm of War & Ghost’s “De Profundis Borealis”

    is gone But between the walls of whispering frost // Secrets live on Every time you feel the wind the words that never came out right // Within reach, but out of sight All the songs that couldn't mend prison And if only love could break these chains // Life could go on Every time you feel the wind But once they do allow themselves to reach out, they will find that there is light, warmth and beauty Other people (even fantasy authors and satanic bands) can and will help, but ultimately you have to find

  • What is House of Leaves? Part I: The Navidson Record

    They know there’s nothing there and can live with that knowledge, but men must find out for sure. Strips of velcro have fallen off his parka, shoe laces have shredded forcing him to bind his boots together “It’s kind of scary” Wax mutters in the middle of a long ramble. “ Like you stop thinking about something

  • ‘The Devils’ by Joe Abercrombie | Review & Analysis

    Alternate History & (Euro)Fantasy Unlike The First Law , The Devils takes place in medieval Europe – kind Abercrombie illuminates some key 'historical' differences in a passage I find utterly fascinating from They are newly led by Brother Diaz, a fairly hapless monk who wasn't looking for this kind of promotion of fights by trickery, yet also utterly isolated and living with every belief humans hold about her kind Of course he eventually finds a heart (his own, in addition to the many many corpses he puppets), and

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