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about me
Hi! I'm tabacoychanel, she/her, I mostly post short book reviews. I read about 30% sci-fi 30% fantasy 10% romance 20% non-genre fiction 10% nonfiction. I try for a ratio of 70/30 stuff I want to read for its own sake vs stuff that seems very buzzy & au courant & "I want to be part of the conversation around it" (not to say there is no overlap ( Read more... ) -
stuff i read 14 Februrary 2020
Annalee Newitz, The Future of Another Timeline (2019) For a book whose thesis is “abolish men” this turned out less angry and more introspective than I expected. I came for the time travel and stayed for the non-time-traveling POV, Beth, who spends her entire arc in 1992. This is weird because I’m aggressively uninterested in the early nineties ( Read more... ) -
stuff i read 9 february 2020
I actually watched Marriage Story this week and I'm confused about why it's so ~controversial when it's straight-up anti-divorce-lawyer propaganda?? If there is one thing we as a society can agree on it's our hatred of divorce lawyers.
Also watched the Taylor Swift documentary and I gotta say my problem with it was not that it was performative and ( Read more... ) -
stuff i read 4 january 2020
James S.A. Corey, Cibola Burn (2014) (The Expanse #4) Corey’s strengths are for me twofold: (1) dynamite pacing and (2) snappy dialogue. A few years back I gulped down all three published Expanse novels in a week and then I forgot about them. Before jumping into this, the fourth one, I brushed up on prior events by reading some synopses and imo ( Read more... ) -
snowflake challenge #11
Challenge #11: In your own space, recommend a fannish or creative resource. Leave a comment in this post saying you did it. Include a link to your post if you feel comfortable doing so.
ao3commentoftheday is a tumblr blog that's the closest thing the dw/ao3/tumblr nexus of fannish space has to a water cooler (i say this because god only knows what ( Read more... ) -
snowflake challenge #8
Challenge #8: Rec at least three fanworks that you didn’t create. Better late than never right?
[asoiaf] The Matter of Soulmates by sunkelles (3.7k, Sansa Stark/Daenerys Targaryen) this is neither the pairing nor the trope (soulmarks) that i gravitate to but damn if i my heart wasn't in my throat waiting for Dany the Conqueror to liberate Sansa from ( Read more... ) -
stuff i read 26 january 2020
LOTR Reread: Appendix A: Annals of the Kings and the Rulers: I don’t know why fifteen-year-old me skipped the appendices but it would have signficantly augmented my enjoyment if I hadn’t. I’m starting with them this time and it’s the best decision I ever made in my life
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Joe Haldeman, The Forever War (1974)
I didn’t expect John Scalzi to write the preface. Mind you, I’ve never actually read anything by Scalzi, but he maintains a very active + entertaining internet presence, and generally has accurate statements to make about everything. When they brought out this new edition of The Forever War they decided to carpet-bomb the first few pages with ( Read more... ) -
Laini Taylor, Daughter of Smoke and Bone
There’s been so much buzz about this book and its sequel, Days of Blood and Starlight. Also it’s set in Prague so I was sold. This review will contain spoilers - not, like, major revelations that will indelibly mar your enjoyment of the book, but you have to understand that for the first 50 pages we just follow Karou, her sketchbook and her art ( Read more... )