Tyler Chimera

Tyler Chimera

@tylerchimera.bsky.social

Happy husband, dog dad, feline flunky, loony lefty, tired transit technician.

401 Followers 173 Following 550 Posts Joined Nov 2024
7 months ago
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

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7 months ago
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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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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!

#booksky

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7 months ago
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

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
Cat peering over the top of the book The Left Hand of Darkness

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

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7 months ago
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

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago

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.

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7 months ago
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.

#BookSky #bookchallenge
#20TBRbookchallenge

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7 months ago

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

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7 months ago
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.

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7 months ago

Advice many of us doomscrolling on bluesky should probably take to heart πŸ˜…

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7 months ago
Book spines of The Broken Earth trilogy: The Fifth Season, The Obelisk Gate, and The Stone Sky, by N. K. Jemisin

In The Broken Earth trilogy, the characters have internalized a lot of the violent oppression and abuse the world has subjected them to, and struggle with how to survive and resist without resorting to the same evils.

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7 months ago
The Hobbit, by J. R. R. Tolkien Dune, by Frank Herbert

I liked your blog post. It's interesting how the book shifted your perspective on god.

Makes me think of Octavia Butler. "God is change."

Here are a couple of my older repeat reads:

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7 months ago
Bookshelf with eleven N. K. Jemisin books.

#booksky #favoriteauthor

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7 months ago
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Currently part way through these three.

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7 months ago

Happy Sunday! Hoping to finally catch up on some reading and relaxing today. This last week was exhausting.

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7 months ago
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I've barely had time to read the last couple weeks. Hoping to catch up a bit on my current reads today.

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7 months ago

I'm 60% through reading this. Definitely something more people should read.

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