Mushroomwitch
She/Her. I'm a healthcare profesional and I read for hobby 📚 🌈 Classics, dystopia, gothic lit and botanical horror are my favorites.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
7Mushroomwitch commented on cybersajlism's review of When We Lost Our Heads
(3.75/5)
A strange, bizarre, and funny feminist satire. There were so many moments that I genuinely laughed out loud. These characters didn’t feel like real people, but caricatures that were meant to be theatrical and over-the-top in order to convey the satirical message. I enjoyed the subversion of gender roles that the author plays around with, especially towards the end. I also loved the nonbinary representation that was included in a couple of chapters.
While I enjoyed reading this, I’m not sure that I got a whole lot out of it upon finishing. I liked the absurdity, but it didn’t give me a much to think about outside of that. I was hoping for some greater thesis or idea to be conveyed and I was left a bit disappointed in that aspect. It was a fun idea for a story but not one that impacted me very deeply.
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I keep thinking about this
"Tears ran from his eyes and stung his cheeks. Tears for his son. Tears for his wife. Tears for the little girl they had to raise. Tears for who they were and what they all had lost. Each drop felt like it was slicing his face open like a razorblade."
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"You think my son was some kind of monster and you made sure everybody at his funeral knew it. My boy was less than five feet away from you, and you couldn’t shut the fuck up about how his sins were forgivable. His abominable sins.”
oooh this really boils my piss, you couldn't pay me to live in a small religious town where a funeral for a murdered gay man is prime real estate for some reverend's religious virtue signalling 🙄 i can already tell it's gonna be hard to stomach the amount of disrespect this place had for isiah
22Mushroomwitch commented on cybersajlism's review of When We Lost Our Heads
(3.75/5)
A strange, bizarre, and funny feminist satire. There were so many moments that I genuinely laughed out loud. These characters didn’t feel like real people, but caricatures that were meant to be theatrical and over-the-top in order to convey the satirical message. I enjoyed the subversion of gender roles that the author plays around with, especially towards the end. I also loved the nonbinary representation that was included in a couple of chapters.
While I enjoyed reading this, I’m not sure that I got a whole lot out of it upon finishing. I liked the absurdity, but it didn’t give me a much to think about outside of that. I was hoping for some greater thesis or idea to be conveyed and I was left a bit disappointed in that aspect. It was a fun idea for a story but not one that impacted me very deeply.
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Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge and the Teachings of Plants
Robin Wall Kimmerer
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