@cynical13@Narayoni@bookstodon Somebody once asked on social media for the most ākick-assā female character in books or on film. Mainly the replies involved Lara Croft, Ripley, or Zena.
They were wrong of course.
I finally read Ancillary Justice last night. Late to the party, but glad to have gotten here! I enjoyed the book but it also sort of felt complete to me. Can anyone tell me how the sequels are? @bookstodon#books
Way back in the 1980s, when I was in college, we had a tent city on the UC Berkeley campus to protest the Apartheid regime in South Africa. Lots of parallels to what's been happening on campuses recently with the Palestinian solidarity protests, including violent police crack downs.
During this time, author Kurt Vonnegut came to speak in support of the movement, and against Apartheid.
I recently found this amusing clip
of Vonnegut explaining the different types of character arcs a story can have.
I found this book that teaches Zionists on how to speak to non Zionists. it's important to read these books to understand their demonic way of thinking and counter it.
In this book they are teaching you how to lie effectively, deceive people and use emotion as a weapon.
@TruthSandwich@palestine@israel Anti-Semitism doesn't mean anything these days. These words don't work. you won't stop us from exposing your lies everyday.
44 Travels with Herodotus, Ryszard KapuÅciÅski
Written by a Polish journalist this is a book in two strands. In one he reviews some of his past assignments, in the other he reviews his reading and relationship to Herodotus and his Histories. His interpretation of Herodotus was fascinating. He examines technique and proposes that Herodotus should be known as the first journalist and The Histories is the first piece of reportage.
I must re-read Herodotus. #books@bookstodon
"The book didnāt want anyone to know it was there. If it were destroyed, everyone whoād survived in the story would be gone too. There would be no one left to remember the ones who had died. The balance of the world goes horribly askew when a story is confiscated; it becomes a darker, more ominous place." -- from 'The Book Censor's Library' by Bothayna Al-Essa; trans. Ranya Abdeirahman, Sawad Hussain
This is the most interesting book I've read in a long time, notwithstanding that I also feel punched in the gut.
Somewhere between āFlowers For Algernonā, āOf Mice And Menā and āEleanor Oliphantā, a Japanese novel about childhood that might have you in tears.
@negative12dollarbill@bookstodon oh my goodness, this does sound like an emotional gut-punch. Reminds me a little of Heaven, by Mieko Kawakami, which was a terrifying glimpse of bullying in Japanese schools.
@beexcessivelydiverting@bookstodon this makes me think of Anne Elliott telling Mrs. Smith that She doesn't believe Mr. Elliott can be trusted - because He always says the right thing, and is consistently agreeable and never offends anyone.
@beexcessivelydiverting@bookstodon when Elizabeth's aunt writes and says how much She really likes Darcy- it dawned on me what perfect complements They are for each other. and when Elizabeth shuts down Lady Catherine- it became certain. but just now, i was thinking of the real point. Lady Catherine and Mr. Collins are blind. because Their hearts are closed. and the promise of prodigious joy for Darcy and Elizabeth- is exactly because Their hearts are open. reserved is really closed, isn't it?
Iām listening to this song now while reading Star Wars Thrawn. No, itās not a direct allusion to the Thrawn of Rebels (because there it seems to me a little different from the books), but it definitely helped me get in the mood.
I finally started reading the origin tale of Mitthārawānuruodo! Heās one of my favorite Star Wars characters since the Thrawn Trilogy. Itās good to be back.
At the store and came across a pretty discounted hardcover copy of "Demon Copperhead" by Barbara Kingsolver. It is worth purchasing a physical copy? I usually try to stick to library books and purchase books I really like, but the library wait list is long and the price is tempting.
About to travel and was looking for something good to read.
@seanbala@books@bookstodon canāt advise you re the purchase, but Iāll say I think itās one of the best novels Iāve read in the last couple of years