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AJ_in_Huchiun

39, they/she/he Homeschooling my nd kid by necessity. Chaotic 🎧 based on hold status/vibes. I do occasionally read things that aren’t even a little bit queer 😅 End settler colonialism everywhere

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Found Family in Fantasy
Feminism Without Exception
LGBTQ+ Sci-Fi & Fantasy
Fictional(?) Dystopian Societies
Sapphic Across Genres
Black Fantasy, Sci-Fi, and Speculative Fiction
My Taste
The Stars and the Blackness Between Them
Perfect Victims: And the Politics of Appeal
Light from Uncommon Stars
Hijab Butch Blues
The Thirty Names of Night
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The Salvage
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What It Takes to Heal: How Transforming Ourselves Can Change the World
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  • Book Ratings!

    Hey everyone! ✨

    I wonder if you all have a certain type of system for rating the books you've read? Or do you just rate it on vibes, like me? I have always been hesitant to rate some books 5 stars previously (for whatever reasons) but now, I have been more open to giving 5 stars ⭐ if I really really love it!

    That being said, I'd like to set up a certain rating system for books 🤔 and would like to hear how you all rate your books?✨

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    I’m intrigued by the story and yet I’m slightly annoyed with:

    1. The amount of mundane detail included in the narration
    2. The MC blaming herself for things that seem very out of her control- however I know that as a woman in a male-dominated field, or really just anyone down on the organizational hierarchy, she likely would be blamed for things that aren’t her fault. I guess I want her to be more angry and less self-deprecating...

    I see now why some people prefer third person narration- I usually don’t mind first person but when the character’s insecurities are showing up hard, it can be a bit rough to read.

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  • How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures
    AJ_in_Huchiun
    Apr 21, 2026
    3.5
    Enjoyment: 2.0Quality: 3.5Characters: Plot:
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    I found myself annoyed with the writing more often than I usually am with this book. I also had some political issues with it - one I mentioned in the forum and another was the too simplistic discussions of gentrification. I also had issues with the use of second person when discussing sea creatures to have the audience identify with the animals or an entire species that ended up feeing like anthropomorphism to me. I am also just maybe too close in so that almost nothing of the memoir bits felt novel to me - not that I need something novel per se in a memoir but the writing/message also didn’t consistently add much for me.

    I did enjoy some of the essays, especially the one about their mixed race experience.

    I do recommend looking at content warnings before reading, @fierceandtender wrote some out in the forum.

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