Bethany Joy Winn

TURNED ON A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility BRIE STONER Turned on: A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility Brie Stoner 224 pages missing.pub info (editions) 3.75 See review Finished Feb 2, 2025 nonfiction art feminism play self help

A review by you! Turned on: A Creative's Guide to Awakening Presence, Pleasure, and Possibility by Brie Stoner hopeful inspiring reflective medium-paced 3.75 Reading this was a whirlwind romance, a seduction of self and what is yet to become. Brie shares vulnerably from her lived experience and the sensual, embodied wisdom she has accumulated along the way. She extends an invitation to more: more love, more pleasure, more creativity, more awareness, more presence, more possibility. What might be possible if more of us were turned on?

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It seems like reading books is an underutilized skill. Y'all don't have to read on screens and snack on immediacy.
Pick up a book. Something funny or escapist. Something historical to learn from what's happened before. An autobiography of someone who has persisted and resisted. Slow down. Feast.

May it be today. And today. And today.

All of this.

Same, friend. Same. (Read full thread)

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Timothy Snyder 128 pages first pub 2017 (editions) 4.25 See review Finished Jan 26, 2025 nonfiction history politics informative reflective fast-paced

A review by you! ث On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century by Timothy Snyder informative inspiring fast-paced 4.25 Quick handbook for anyone feeling any sort of thing about the current administration. Learn a little from history, get practical and specific tips & strategies for responding to the present and preparing for what may yet come. I would push back on a few things (there are non-TERF-authored novels highlighting resistance, for example) but overall this is a helpful, concise, clear reference point for all who would resist tyranny and seek mutual liberation and flourishing.

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Really good advice. Read the whole thread.

All of this. Follow the op thread.

Amen.

Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar

Martyr! "Kaveh Akbar is one of my favorite writers. Ever." -TOMMY ORANGE A NOVEL Kaveh Akbar Martyr! Kaveh Akbar 331 pages first pub 2024 (editions) 5.0 See review Finished Jan 24, 2025 read fiction contemporary Igbtqia+ literary dark emotional reflective medium-paced

A review by you! Martyr! by Kaveh Akbar ث emotional funny reflective sad medium- paced Plot- or character-driven? A mix Strong character development? It's complicated Loveable characters? Yes Diverse cast of characters? Yes Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes 5.0 I was about to give it 4.75 and say that I wanted to give it five stars but needed a little more resolution or clarity...and then I realized that in fact I love this book exactly as it is. It asks tremendous questions and doesn't stoop to offer saccharine answers. The characters feel real and complicated and loveable and sometimes infuriating in a way that's all so deeply human. The exploration of life and death and art and legacy and love and what matters...I think I want my hospice chaplain colleagues to read this and have a book club. Then I'll amend this review.

"[T]his novel...depicts generations of queer couplings w/o flinching. Avoiding the tragic queer narrative, Akbar portrays queer relationships as complicated, tender, full of ups & downs. In Martyr!, queer ppl simply live their lives & love each other; refreshing & masterfully told." (masters review)

Clarity is important in our work to protect each other.

A lot of the “how to disagree well” stuff (which I have also produced) was based on the idea that we were all playing the game of what @kjephd.bsky.social calls “pluralist” or “Technocratic” politics. But trump and co are playing a different game. That seems like “bad faith” from the point of…

Also stabbing things.

Today.

One tip - it appears that the default setting for new accounts only allows followers, not friends. If you want more engagement, you need to allow friend requests from everyone:

1. Go to Preferences in the menu bar
2. Adjust your settings to allow friend requests

It didn't work on my phone either, but I tried on my laptop and it was easy. Is there a computer option for you?

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This is interesting:

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The Black Tree Atop the Hill Karla Yvette 140 pages • first pub 2023 (editions) 3.25 See review Finished Jan. 13, 2025

A review by you! ث The Black Tree Atop the Hill by Karla Yvette dark mysterious reflective slow-paced Plot- or character-driven? A mix Strong character development? No Loveable characters? It's complicated Diverse cast of characters? No Flaws of characters a main focus? No 3.25 Strange. The story has potential but the author's style didn't draw me in. There were a few really beautiful sentences or moments, but overall I didn't find it compelling. The main character was my least favorite; the other characters were more interesting and the horses actually were my favorite characters. I think the author said too much about some things and neglected to really tease out the themes and character development that would have made it great.

"You think there isn't anyone as ordinary as you," June had said. "And that makes you angry. But you always choose to be kind, even when that's not how you feel inside, and that's what makes witches out of ordinary folk."
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"Sometimes, witchwork is just being angry enough to do something impossible."

That's what I thought!

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Why can't I see the other comments? I'm new to this platform. Would love to know people's answers to this!

Right?

Ooh that sounds good. Tonight in a nature walk I was in awe about something and said to my wife: "this is how I do science. I wonder."

What happened here?

California Governor Gavin Newsom invites Trump to visit the state to see the crisis firsthand, emphasizing the need for leaders to focus on helping displaced Americans rather than peddling lies and disinformation.

I saw something recently about a different e-reader that worked well with Storygraph...I don't remember because I am almost exclusively physical books