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"At the crossing from Desire to Greed, where desire run dry, and lovers think only of themselves."
😭😭 for me this reminds me of heartbreak that numbed my desire for connecting to anyone at all
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HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (Inalienable Rights)
Nadine Strossen
0henry-pflanzen commented on a post from the Pagebound Club forum
wanted to make a post as a PSA and also a discussion topic.
my library's app has a section where i can suggest books to add to the collection, and over the years this has been an awesome way to get more queer and feminist literature into the collection. the last couple books i requested, they ordered a few copies, and by the time i noticed my request was granted, one was completely checked out already so i had to put it on hold!! which was super exciting to see that other people are interested in what i suggested.
so im wondering... have you requested any books? does your library usually approve the books, or what is the process like?
the books i recently requested were
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan (this is the one that was checked out lol)
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Post from the Pagebound Club forum
wanted to make a post as a PSA and also a discussion topic.
my library's app has a section where i can suggest books to add to the collection, and over the years this has been an awesome way to get more queer and feminist literature into the collection. the last couple books i requested, they ordered a few copies, and by the time i noticed my request was granted, one was completely checked out already so i had to put it on hold!! which was super exciting to see that other people are interested in what i suggested.
so im wondering... have you requested any books? does your library usually approve the books, or what is the process like?
the books i recently requested were
A Country of Ghosts by Margaret Killjoy
Straight Expectations by Calum McSwiggan (this is the one that was checked out lol)
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Ngl why are people saying you definitely need to do background reading for this? It's so manageable. I don't feel out of my depth at all and I can't read classics. I can't believe that I let people intimidate me from this book.
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Reservoir Bitches
Dahlia de la Cerda
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The Chromatic Fantasy
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0henry-pflanzen commented on candanchanread's review of Nothing to See Here
If you're a fan of unlikable characters, you're gonna love this one. Unfortunately I much rather prefer reading a book where I DON'T want to kill all the characters.
Right off the bat this book is wildly fucked up. Even though the premise involves children, this is clearly written for adults. Before we actually meet the children, we get a prelude filled with weird closeted lesbian undertones, corrupt money, and life crises. NOT a book to be picking up if you want to be in a good mood.
Nothing boiled my blood more than Madison. I HATED Madison. The entire book she was clearly a manipulative, selfish bitch but she got away with every shitty thing she did because of her conventional beauty and her access to wealth. And Lillian WORSHIPPED her, all the way up until the end!!! Bitch, you should've been using one of the fire children to BURN HER TO ASHES after what she put you through, the fuck?!?!?
It's such a shame that Madison put such a damper on my experience with this book because I actually genuinely enjoyed Lillian's relationship with the children. Creating meaningful and honest relationships with children while simultaneously fucking with shitty adults in the most chaotic way possible? I love the energy they created. Although at first I wasn't too keen on how needlessly chaotic Lillian was. It was both infuriating and baffling.
Example: "I reached into one of the pockets of the pool table, removed a ball, and hit it in an empty ice bucket. I pushed the start button on the pinball game... immediately slammed the side of the machine and the word TILT appeared and the game went dead. I took the white queen from the chessboard and was going to take it with me, but I got sheepish and put it back." (p 57)
Also that ending?! It left me with so many questions.
minor spoilers
What happens to Lillian and the kids now? Where do they go? Why was the book arbitrarily set to 1995 if we don't even get to see how Lillian and the kids are faring in present day?
end minor spoilers
Anyways here's a quote that stuck with me:
"A lot of times when I think I'm being self-sufficient, I'm really just learning to live without the things that I need." (p 58)
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Reservoir Bitches
Dahlia de la Cerda
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i don't know if i ever thought about all the Jewish communities around the world destroyed by the Zionist project. what a horrific loss
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"... It made sense to replace [the longhorns] with their North African cousins, who bred so fast that not even the ferocity of Texan hunters could eradicate them. As if their lives could be just swapped without consequences. As if introducing the audoads to the American West could negate the destruction already underway."
reminds me of a question i asked early in my career as a botanist... i was born in California but i have family in Hawaii and went there for a bit after college. my aunt is a botanist and taught me a lot about the local plants. i learned about the Ohi'a trees and Sudden Ohi'a Death (SOD) which is a tree disease, and i asked can the Ohi'a trees be replaced by some other kind of tree to protect the forest? her response was strong and immediate and pained ... no!! i don't remember exactly what reasons she gave after that, but this stuck with me and there's no such thing as a stupid question but damn that was a question you can really only ask when you come out of a lot of ignorance and disconnection
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"If you like this book for whatever reason, you may also enjoy: Stoner, Hard Rain Falling, Footbridge to Hell Called Love, Cane, Stone Face, The House of Breath, Battles in the Desert."
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