cassia
I will always be guided by my values 📚♥️🏳️⚧️ (28 | she/her | naarm/melbourne)
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New Achievement! Book Glutton
Woah. You've managed to read all 738 pages of this baby on your e-reader without ever marking it as "currently reading". Did you devour it in one go, or did you just feel intense shame at having to post a public update that you're reading ANOTHER DCC book? That's okay, you don't have to tell me. I don't judge. Did you like the characters? Did you have a good time? Of course you did. It's great. You know quality, and quality knows you. Now you're free to go and feel that little tingle again in the next book. You can unpack themes if you want, but this review isn't the place to do it.
Reward: There's no reward. Reading in itself was the reward. You can go and read the next ones if you like. Who are you kidding, of course you'll read the next ones.
Chain-Gang All-Stars
Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah
The amount of commentary on the militarization of police, turning justice into spectacle, racialization of punishment, and the ethics of thinking we are better than that's crammed into the first few chapters of this book is immense.
I don't remember the last time I read a book that so firmly believes we can be better than this, and echoes my own frustration that we're not there yet quite so thoroughly.
cassia commented...
I go feral for speculative fiction, especially scifi. Stories where something is different to now, and it explores how people would act in response. They're always mirrors to our world and idk I think so much of how I see the world is informed by it
Hey, fellow boundlings! As I was planning my TBR for the next few months, I realized there were quite a few historical books I was ecstatic to read, but couldn’t due to lack of time 😢. So it got me wondering: what genre for you (I know we all have multiple, but just pick one 😉), is like a drink of cold water in the midst of a hot summer day? (Pardon the simile/metaphor).
For me, it’s historical fiction 🥰. I haven’t been reading much lately, but am so excited to read Madeline Martin’s historical fiction books later this year, A Castaway in Cornwall by Julie Klassen, and more! Historical fiction books set during WWII (especially in Paris), or other similar books are so refreshing for me, despite the depressing era (🤫) What about you??
