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kimlockhartga , 8 months ago to bookstodon

You know the drill, @bookstodon Whatcha reading this weekend? ❤📚👀

I finished WE ARE THE CRISIS, the excellent second installment of Cadwell Turnbull's Convergence Saga. NO GODS, NO MONSTERS was the first book.

I'm currently reading Ed Park's bizarro SAME BED DIFFERENT DREAMS.

Next up: THE FUTURE, by Naomi Alderman, author of THE POWER.

tishkova , 8 months ago

@kimlockhartga @bookstodon i see your next repost, and, coincidentally, i'm on my second Le Guin book in a row! yes, we should all be reading more Ursula Le Guin 😌

tishkova , 11 months ago to random

reading the news about the flood here in Norway and wiki pages on the revolution in Iran converged into a bizarre dream during my nap: i'm a spy fighting the regime and the flood simultaneously, there's danger everywhere and i must save people (from either fanatic theocrats or masses of water, choose your poison), pew-pew 🦸‍♀️

tishkova OP , 11 months ago

all i wanted was to refresh my memory of what happened in Iran during that time, so i'm not... erm... so disoriented to read Disoriental by Négar Djavadi (see what i did there? 🥁🥴)

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tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros, and it's soooo gooood! i usually listen to audiobooks before bed and i get sleepy after 15-30 mins. not with this book, i do not 😁 it's so packed with action and drama and dragons and danger and daggers pew pew pew (why does everything start on a D? 🤔)

i appreciate especially how cool the protagonist is with her sexuality and body, and she has flaws, how refreshing 😁

anyway, check it out, it's fun!

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tishkova OP , 11 months ago

now i just have to look up the other dragons' names to see if all of them are in #Gàidhlig 🤓
by 41% of the audiobook some of them were mentioned, but more in passing, so i couldn't really parse their names and, well, i didn't expect to understand them.

sssssso excited!

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tishkova OP , 11 months ago

Fourth Wing by Rebecca Yarros

wow! that is what i call a page turner! i couldn't put this book down, it's so packed with action 🔥

romantic fantasy is not my favourite genre, and i expected more of a YA vibe with he-loves-me he-loves-me-not anxiety. there was some of that but it was hmm tolerable 😁 sex scenes were surprisingly well written (and the way magic works when they are at it – hahaha, so good!)

and dragons! ooh, that was the best part!

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tishkova , 11 months ago to bookstodon

i #AmReading The Possessed by Elif Batuman now. i thought it was a non fiction about literature, but it turned out to be more of a memoir of an academic, and she got a sense of humour 😁
Elif's luggage was lost on her way to Yasnaya Polyana and she had to attend a Tolstoy conference in loungewear. it would be even funnier if she wore a hoodie instead of a shirt – hoodie is called "tolstovka" in russian, after, you guessed it, Tolstoy 🤓
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tishkova OP , 11 months ago

The Possessed by Elif Batuman

i wasn't completely wrong, it actually is both non fic about literature and memoir (and travelogue and gossip and re-telling and several other things). i really enjoyed some chapters and Batuman's humour, but i'd like the book even better if it were more of one theme/genre.

i'd recommend to read it along with her recent reflections on russian classics in the shadow of the war and pushkinopad:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2023/01/30/rereading-russian-classics-in-the-shadow-of-the-ukraine-war

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