Tyler Chimera

How Long 'til Black Future Month? By N. K. Jemisin

Lol, exactly what I said.

Right. I see this cult-like thinking everywhere, especially in so many followers of both major political parties. No one's allowed to criticize or question the cult or they're a traitor. It's exhausting...

Page from The Left Hand of Darkness with the highlighted text "To oppose something is to maintain it" and "To learn which questions are unanswerable, and not to answer them: this skill is most needful in times of stress and darkness."

I just finished The Left Hand of Darkness a couple days ago.

Estraven's line "To oppose something is to maintain it" has really stuck with me.

I also liked his bedtime invocation"praise then darkness and Creation unfinished."

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This Is How You Lose the Time War, by Amal El-Mohtar & Max Gladstone. The Left Hand of Darkness, by Ursula K. Le Guin. The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, by Rashid Khalidi. Debt: The First 5000 Years, by David Graeber.

My June-July reads. #booksky

Free your mind of the idea of deserving, of the idea of earning, and you will begin to be able to think. -Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed

I'm almost done with Debt: The First 5000 Years, and it had a great quote from the next book on my TBR pile. #booksky

a cartoon dog is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee surrounded by fire . Alt: A cartoon dog surrounded by fire in a burning building is sitting at a table with a cup of coffee and cheerfully says, "This is fine."

This: turning things that should shock us into things we don't even notice.

It's been driving me crazy the degree to which most everyone around me is acting out the "this is fine" meme.

I just bought Copaganda & Usual Cruelty. Looking forward to reading them in the next couple months.

I like both, but one of my favorite books alternates between third and second person.

Sounds heavy. This and Wild Seed are next up on my TBR. I'm debating which to read next.

Have you read Gods of Jade and Shadow? It's been on my TBR a while.

Yeah for me it's rereading old sci-fi/fantasy favorites.

Three books: Grievers, Maroons, and Ancestors, my Adrienne Maree Brown

Just got these in the mail. Having recently read Emergent Strategy, I'm curious to check out Adrienne Maree Brown's fiction. #booksky

I just noticed your bookmark. I love Third Place Books!

For me it's the light rail, but yeah, same.

I just picked it up the other day! Looking forward to starting it as soon as I finish my current reads.

I really liked the vibe of these. I'll have to reread them again eventually. It's been more than a decade already.

Cool cover. I just bought the whole Patternist series. It's next on my reading list.

My latest haul from the bookstore.

My wife and I got to see Susana Morris talk about her biography of Octavia Butler. It was really interesting hearing her insights into Octavia. And she signed our copy!

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Restoring the Kinship Worldview: Indigenous Voices Introduce 28 Precepts for Rebalancing Life on Planet Earth, by Wahinkpe Topa and Darcia Narvaez

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

20/20

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That's kind of how I felt about Ged in A Wizard of Earthsea.

Fifth Season, Dawn, and Time War are three of my favorites!

I read this a couple months ago and quite liked it. Curious to know how you feel about the ending when you finish it.

Cat peering over the top of the book The Left Hand of Darkness

Ivy says it's time for pets, not reading. #booksky

Ancestors, by Adrienne Maree Brown

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no expectations, just covers.

19/20

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What are a few things from it you think people ought to know?

Do you expect me to learn Greek too, for the new testament? I mean, I'd love to if I had that kind of time on my hands, but I'm afraid not.

I haven't started reading it yet per se. I've heard a little over a quarter of it via the Bible Brothers podcast, but I'll start over from the beginning when I actually read it. I have the KJV and NLT versions, in English.

Holy Bible

20-day TBR book challenge. Choose 20 books on your current To-Be-Read shelf, pile, list... wherever! One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order.

18/20

Some explanation on this one: I'm an atheist, just curious what all the fuss is about.

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Indeed. I've read all her novels but the Patternist series.

Current reads: The Hundred Years' War on Palestine, Debt: The First 5000 Years, The Left Hand of Darkness

Summer reading stack: The Books of Earthsea, The Shock Doctrine, Homage to Catalonia, Wild Seed, The Dispossessed, The Philosophy of Social Ecology, Ancestors

My current reads and my summer stack.